Polaris Pool Cleaner Parts 2026: Part Numbers, Real Prices & When to Stop Repairing

Quick Answer: Polaris parts split into two economies. On the classic pressure-side cleaners — 280, 360, 380, 3900 Sport — parts are cheap and worth buying: tires run about $17.99, the 360/380 belt kit is $52.49, a 280 all-purpose bag is $52.49, and the sweep tail scrubber shared across the whole lineup is $8.99. On the modern robots the arithmetic inverts: the ALPHA iQ+ control box is $745.99 and its motor block $758.99, against a $1,499.99 new machine. The part number people get wrong most often is 3260-G052 — it is a back-up valve kit at $126.99, not a hose. And critically, Polaris’s own warranty (clause 7, document H0355004) states that bags, canisters, tires, sweep hoses, belts, rollers and brushes “are not warranted” — so none of the parts below are covered from day one.

Nobody enjoys this search. Something stopped sweeping, or the bag tore, or the cleaner is doing donuts in the deep end, and now you are trying to work out whether the fix costs $9 or $750. The good news is that Polaris part numbers are stable and well documented by retailers. The bad news is that the official manufacturer site barely publishes them at all. This guide is the map — verified part numbers, real prices as checked on 20 July 2026, and the point at which repairing stops making sense.

Polaris parts at a glance

First, the warranty clause nobody reads

Before you spend anything, understand what Polaris will and will not stand behind. The official Fluidra/Zodiac Polaris Limited Warranty, document H0355004, sets a one-year baseline and then names its exclusions. Clause 7 is the one that matters here, verbatim:

“Pool cleaner wear-and-tear items including, but not limited to, bags, filter canisters, filter trays, tires (including track tires), sweep hoses, sweep hose scrubbers, surface disks, shoes, belts, rollers, brushes, and footpads, are not warranted.”

Read that list again. It is, almost exactly, the contents of this entire guide. Every consumable on a Polaris is excluded from coverage the day you buy the machine.

This reframes the usual “will aftermarket parts void my warranty?” worry. On a tire or a bag, there is no warranty to void. The genuine risk sits in exclusion 3 — the warranty does not cover failures resulting from “Use of non-factory authorized parts or accessories in conjunction with the product(s)” — which means a cheap non-OEM part that takes out a covered component can cost you the claim on that component. That is the honest version of the argument. Polaris’s own parts buying guide puts it more forcefully, claiming generic makers “use the base specs to produce the cheapest possible part with no regard for quality or durability” — but that is marketing copy on a page selling OEM parts, not independent testing.

Two further clauses worth knowing. Purchased replacement parts carry 90 days of coverage, except Factory Rebuild Kits for pressure cleaners, which get a full year. And the machine warranties vary more than most owners realise: two years on robotic and battery-powered robotic cleaners, one year on pressure and suction cleaners, five years on in-ground pressure-side frames, three years on commercial robots.

Pressure-side parts: 280, 360, 380, 3900 Sport

This is where Polaris parts are actually worth buying. These cleaners are mechanically simple, the parts are inexpensive relative to the machine, and almost everything is a driveway job.

Tires and wheels

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One correction worth making, because it circulates widely: C55 is not a tire. Polaris’s own catalogue titles it “Wheel Screw Plastic” for the 180 and 280. If a listing sells you a C55 as a tire, it is wrong.

Belts, chains and drive

Only the 360 and 380 use belts. The kit is 3263-125 (manufacturer 9-100-1017), described as “BELT KIT, SMALL AND LARGE,” at $52.49 — it also fits the TR35P and TR36P. An aftermarket equivalent, 3286-010, sits at $49.99, a $2.50 saving that makes the OEM part the easy choice.

The 280 has no belts. It drives from a single turbine shaft, part 3260-C086 at $47.49. The 3900 Sport uses a chain: 3264-009 at $112.99, with tensioner kit 3264-014 at $43.49. Ordering belts for either model is the second-most-common wasted purchase in this catalogue.

Bags

Bag pricing is genuinely confusing because each model has three or four variants at very different prices:

The zipper is worth $41.50 to some owners and nothing to others. If you empty the bag over a bin and hose it out, the plain K16 at $52.49 does the same job. Note also that 9-100-1015 is the sand-and-silt bag, not the all-purpose one — a distinction listings routinely blur.

Sweep hose, wear rings and the $8.99 fix

If your Polaris “doesn’t clean as well as it used to,” start here. Tail scrubber, wear rings and thrust jet kit together come to roughly $51 and address the three most common causes of a gradual decline in performance. That is a fraction of the cost of any of the larger assemblies.

Hoses and the back-up valve trap

The hose assembly is where money disappears fastest. A complete 380 feed hose (3262-0) is $238.99; a single 10 ft hard white section, 3260-D045, is $68.99; the leader hose 3260-0011 is $95.99. Small connective parts are cheap by comparison — the universal wall fitting 3260-01 is $9.99, the filter screen 3260-03 is $11.49, the pressure relief valve 3263-82 is $22.49.

And then there is 3260-G052. It is titled “VALVE KIT, BACK-UP” at $126.99 and it fits the 180, 280, 380 and 3900. It is not a hose, despite being widely searched as one. Its G-numbered relatives — G053 mechanism, G054 case, G057 collar, G058 O-ring kit — are all subparts of the same back-up valve. A CMP-made generic alternative, 25563-052-000, runs $89.49, about $37 under OEM. For the full picture on hose sizing and the sectional-versus-one-piece distinction, see our pool vacuum hose guide.

Rebuild kits and the point of no return

This is the single most useful number in the guide: a full 380 rebuild kit costs $567.99 — more than a brand-new Polaris 65 Turbo Turtle at $299.99, and within sight of a competent entry-level robot. If your quote for parts crosses roughly $300, stop and price a replacement machine. Our best Polaris pool cleaner guide covers the current lineup, and the best robotic pool cleaner guide covers what else that money buys.

Booster-pump owners: the PB4-60 has its own parts set. The .75 hp motor (3262-18) is $324.99, the impeller R0536400 is $42.99, and the shaft seal is the cleanest OEM-versus-generic illustration in the whole catalogue — the OEM 5020-086 is $36.99 against the generic PS-201 at $12.99, a 2.8x gap for the same function.

Robotic parts: ALPHA iQ+, VRX iQ+, EPIC

Here the economics reverse completely, and it is worth being blunt about it.

Any of the top four failing outside the two-year robotic warranty is effectively a write-off. The consumables at the bottom of the table — canisters, brushes, rollers — are the only routine spend, and they are the ones the warranty explicitly excludes.

Filter canisters deserve one note on sourcing. The R0517800 fine canister is $83.99 at InyoPools and $72.92 at PoolZoom — the same OEM part, a 13 percent spread between two legitimate retailers. On a $750 control box that pattern is worth real money, so check two sources before any large order. PoolZoom also flags a supersession worth knowing: the filter canister support lid R0517700 is now R0865100.

The EPIC 8642 iQ uses a different architecture — a separate power supply rather than a control box — but lands in the same place: power supply R0899400 at $601.99, motor block R0895400 at $584.99, floating cable R0896100 at $388.99. Its consumables are cheaper than ALPHA’s: fine canister R0897800 at $70.49, general-purpose R0898000 at $77.99, brush 2-pack R0897200 at $43.99, tracks R0895300 at $69.99.

The Polaris 7000 above-ground robot follows the same shape at a smaller scale, and the result is starker: its US floor control box R0762400 is $658.99, comfortably more than the complete cleaner costs. Its canisters mirror ALPHA’s tiering almost exactly — fine R0763200 at $89.49, ultra-fine R0763400 at $112.99 — despite being the entry unit. Track set R0765700 is $77.99 and the blade set R0765800 is $24.49.

FREEDOM cordless: the battery question

Two things to take from this. First, a widely repeated error: several sources list R0972700 as the FREEDOM battery. It is not — the official Fluidra table says R0972700 is the Motor Block Kit CB. The battery is R0972000. Ordering the wrong one is a $600+ mistake.

Second, the service boundary is drawn on purpose. The same manual that forbids battery work gives you full DIY instructions for brush replacement (§6.4) and track replacement (§6.5), including the wear indicator to check. So FREEDOM owners can handle their own consumables — and usefully, those consumables are shared with the EPIC: canisters R0897800 and R0898000, brush R0897200, tracks R0895300, all at the EPIC prices above.

Cordless cleaners are covered by the same two-year robotic warranty, since the warranty states plainly that “Polaris battery-powered pool robotic cleaners are warranted for two (2) years.” Given a battery costs 40 percent of a machine, that window is the whole value proposition — a point we make in our best cordless robotic pool cleaner guide too.

Suction-side: ATLAS, ATLAS XT and MAXX

One myth to clear first: the ATLAS has no diaphragm. It is a track-driven turbine cleaner, so the diaphragm, shoe and skirt parts you would order for a Baracuda or a Hayward simply do not exist in its catalogue. What wears instead:

• Track, V2 (R0916500) — $24.49. The primary wear part, shared with the MAXX.
• Silver Cyclone scrubbing brushes, 4-pack (R0953300) — $23.99.
• Cyclonic scrubbing turbine assembly (R0949100) — $57.99.
• Flowkeeper valve (R0527400) — $230.99. The most expensive single ATLAS part by a wide margin.
• Direction control device, side A / side B (R0916100 / R0916200) — $54.49 each. These are what fail when the cleaner stops changing direction properly.
• 1 m friction-fit hose section (R0950000) — $51.99, with twist-lock cuff adapter R0842600 at $15.99.

The ATLAS versus ATLAS XT distinction matters for hose orders: per InyoPools, the XT uses twist-lock hoses and was “mostly sold exclusively at Pinch-A-Penny Pool Stores.” Order friction-fit hose for an XT and it will not connect. For how suction cleaners compare on running costs generally, see our best suction pool cleaner guide.

The 65 Turbo Turtle is a different machine

Above-ground owners: none of the in-ground wear parts apply. The 65 has no tires, no belts, no thrust jet and no tail scrubber. Its parts are the gray wheel kit 3268-09G at $17.99, wheel cage 3268-12 at $34.99, all-purpose bag 3268-17A at $65.49, sweep hose complete 3268-11 at $136.99, and the piston assembly 3268-47 at $53.99. The mechanism 3268-02 is $253.99 — against $407.99 for the entire cleaner, which is the clearest stop-repairing signal in the range. Our best above-ground pool cleaner guide has the alternatives.

Where the official parts resource isn’t

A genuine oddity worth flagging. The FREEDOM owner’s manual (§6.6) tells you “The complete spare parts list and exploded view is available on the Polaris website.” It largely isn’t. The official parts hub organises pages by model and hosts the manuals, but the ALPHA iQ+ page lists exactly one part — R0785800, a cover. The best official exploded diagram we could find for any modern model is buried in a dealer catalogue addendum PDF (28539.3_SA) for the FREEDOM.

The practical consequence is that specialist retailers, not the manufacturer, are the real parts reference. And their own navigation has gaps too: InyoPools’s Polaris category index lists only legacy models, while its fully populated ALPHA, EPIC, ATLAS and 7000 pages are reachable only by direct search. If a parts page seems not to exist, search the model name rather than browsing the category.

Replacement intervals: what’s actually known

Polaris publishes no service intervals for any wear part. Every interval you will read online traces back to retailer estimates. The most-cited come from Benchmark Pool Supply’s knowledge hub: “Drive belts typically last 1-2 swimming seasons with regular use,” filter bags need replacing “usually after 6-12 months,” wheels and brushes “after 2-3 years of normal operation,” and hoses “can last 3-5 years if properly stored and maintained.”

Treat those as rough planning figures, not maintenance schedules. InyoPools’s own repair guides deliberately avoid numbers and use condition language instead — belts “may be stretched or damaged to the point where they have to be replaced,” bags “may become damaged or be too worn for further use.” That is the better standard: inspect at opening and closing, replace what has failed.

The bottom line

On a 280, 360, 380 or 3900 Sport, buy the parts. A tire is $17.99, a belt kit $52.49, a bag $52.49, and the tail-scrubber-plus-wear-rings-plus-thrust-jet refresh that fixes most “it doesn’t clean like it used to” complaints comes to about $51 total. These machines are worth maintaining for years.

On a robot — ALPHA iQ+, VRX iQ+, EPIC, 7000, FREEDOM — buy consumables only. Canisters, brushes, rollers and tracks are all sensible. A control box, motor block, power supply or battery is half a new machine, and at that point replacement is the better purchase. Check the two-year robotic warranty first; it exists precisely because those parts are unaffordable out of pocket.

And whatever you order, confirm the part number against your actual model before paying. 3260-G052 is a valve, not a hose. C55 is a screw, not a tire. R0972700 is a motor block, not a battery. Those three mistakes account for more returned Polaris parts than anything else in the catalogue.

Still deciding whether to repair or replace? Compare the current range in our best Polaris pool cleaner guide, see how Polaris stacks up against the market leader in Dolphin vs Polaris, or start fresh with the best robotic pool cleaner guide.

Part numbers and prices verified 20 July 2026 against InyoPools, PoolZoom, Sunplay and Fluidra/Polaris official documentation. Retailer pricing changes frequently — confirm before ordering.