The first buyers have started to receive their Polestar 4 deliveries. The car has been referred to as “the one without a rear window”. Instead, it is a camera that is responsible for the view to the rear.
But it’s not the rear-facing camera that wobbles, wails and horrifies if that happens, but instead it’s the buttons on the steering wheels that are the basis of the recall that has been issued by the automaker.
According to Polestar, the touch-sensitive buttons do not always work as intended. The problem must have been discovered during a quality control, writes the newspaper Elbilen on its website.
Couldn’t this have been discovered at an earlier stage so that the car buyers don’t have to act as guinea pigs?
It’s the steering wheel buttons that are fiddled with.
Photo: Istvan Csiszar / FOTOistvan AB
No rear window, but a camera that provides the rear view.
Photo: Istvan Csiszar / Polestar
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Polestar invites car owners to visit a workshop where the steering wheel buttons will be replaced free of charge.
Whether the steering wheel buttons in the Zeekr 001, which is closely related to the Polestar 4 and which we just tested, also need to be replaced is unknown. The Lotus Eletre is another car model built on the same basis, but it has a completely different type of steering wheel and thus a different design of the buttons.
Polestar also admits that the preconditioning of the battery before charging does not work as intended and that it is due to an “unexpected bug”. Their own expectation is that they will release an OTA update to fix the problem.
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