Very cool review. Thank you.

 

It has space for multiple pairs of driving gloves, and it's got a curry hook. It's near perfect.

 

I think somewhere on the forum is a guide for how to get behind the glove box - it is pretty simple if I remember right. I think @dave may have discovered this. I'll look...

Yep, it was dave and here's a link directly to his post: From Drawbridge to Guillotine

Hope this helps.

 

I think somewhere on the forum is a guide for how to get behind the glove box - it is pretty simple if I remember right. I think @dave may have discovered this. I'll look...

Yep, it was dave and here's a link directly to his post: From Drawbridge to Guillotine

Hope this helps.

Curse you Mick and your detective skills. I try to give my threads bizarre names so nothing can be traced.

 

I think the biggest irritation is that it’s not lined with a soft material. Net result is that it’s nearly impossible to keep stuff in it without it rattling around.

 

Yeah, but let's be honest - NOTHING in the car is lined with a soft material... so it would have been weird if the glovebox was!

 

And there's never any beer in there when I look.

 

Indeed, no beer

 

Good God.

The glove box is fine, and functional. Oh, and putting a lock on a glove box serves no purpose, as a glove box lock won’t stop anyone and is certainly no deterrent.

 

All it does is cause more damage as they force the lock.

 

On my previous bmws there was a trunk lock inside the glovebox, and you could lock the glovebox. So if you were valet parking or something you could lock the glovebox and prevent the trunk from being opened.

You had a special valet key that would allow driving but not unlocking the trunk or glovebox.

I used that feature exactly zero times, and eventually BMW stopped giving valet keys to save money.

 

I used that feature exactly zero times, and eventually BMW stopped giving valet keys to save money.

With iDrive7 you can activate valet mode with any key, you just enable it from the touchscreen, and its locked with a pin

 

I wrap anything that might rattle in the microfiber cloths used for cleaning the piano gloss surfaces.

 

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No AC? As it is the dimensions are too awkward to fit a 3 litre box of red wine. What use is that?

 

Chilled red wine? What is next, put some ice cubes in the glass of wine?

 

I store wine at 12-13°C anyway so Pinot usually OK straight out the cabinet. Can't stand Beaujolais which I accept is a sweeping statement!

 

Red wine is good chilled just a few degrees. Depending on the season and ambient temp I'll throw it in the fridge for 5-10 minutes before opening

 

Woe is the man whose glovebox is unlined.

Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in a wicker chair, FFS.

 

Yeah but that’s back when men where men and the farm animals where nervous.

 

So joking aside thanks to another comment thread and this video on YouTube which covers changing the cabin filter, I have now managed to retrieve the insurance card that slipped down the back. It's really easy to do.
Strangely, when I looked at the back of the compartment, once the glovebox had been removed, there was no access cover at the back like in the video: it appears to be missing, meaning that there is a gap just below where the air filter is supposedly positioned through which stuff could drop or rodents could enter (yes that actually happened on my Mazda MX-5 once causing thousands of dollars of damage). I'm going to ask my local Polestar/Volvo service center to fit an access cover and to check that a Hepa filter is installed: (I was told by the Polestar sales guy that the 2022 model doesn't have a Hepa/particulate cabin filter whereas the 2023 does.)

 

“Sir this is a Wendy’s.”

 

Was reminded to hide valuables from plain sight after parking in a store's parking lot (smash and grabbers are out). So today my glove box held:
the owner's manual
a 3d printed aux cupholder
a variety of papers including expired copies of my insurance and registration which for some reason I never remember to take out
day use parking permits for different purposes
a package of clothing I was meant to mail for my wife
our ballots that I forgot to drop off yesterday (reminder to Americans: vote!)
and a beer

the glove box is fine

 

Just an update on my experience with the Volvo/Polestar service center here in Northern California: the parts guy made a categorical statement that the access cover on the back wall of the cavity for the glove box, behind which the cabin filter is installed, was no longer installed on later 2022 models and my VIN number indicates the car is not supposed to have the access cover. Of course, that meant that I had to pay for the part and install it myself. The part number is 32234778 and cost me $64.27 plus tax. I have attached a picture of it now installed. It does seem to me that having an uncovered cavity on the back wall of the glove box compartment (behind the removal bin) is not a good thing, so I'm not sure why Polestar would have decided to remove this part from the build. Others here have said that the 2023s don't have it either.

As for the mysteriously dirty cabin filter, they did replace that free of charge under warranty but said that it has not been certified as a HEPA filter, and the part is exactly the same as for the 2023 model, which surprises me since the Polestar salesperson gave that as being one of the differences between the 2022 and 2023 models: improved particulate air filtration.

 

That cover seems completely unnecessary to me, I saw the video and wondered why you'd have 2 plastic covers over the filter

 

Because

Because there are 'air' gaps around the filter cover.....

 

Life’s good when all you’re fixated on is “air gaps” around your engineered cabin filter.

 

Yes, can't complain really but we Brits must have something to grumble about I suppose....