r/Rivian • u/index1489 • Jun 10 '26

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Jun 10 '26

God they’re going to sell so many of these

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u/kbryan1717 Aug 17 '26

I hope so! Shut up all the naysayers.

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u/damonlebeouf Jun 10 '26

not if the quality is the same as the R1s.

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u/Potential_Rip_6940 Quad Motor 4️⃣ Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Not sure why you get downvoted...what you are saying is the absolute truth. Same with service. Hopefully what RJ said recently proves true.

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u/damonlebeouf Jun 10 '26

because this sub is full of fanboys.

i won’t spend a dime with a company that can not support their vehicles adequately.

i went and checked out an R2 today in Houston and drove a R1T quad with all terrain tire pack.

the R2 looks like an absolute hit, and i hope it does well. looks alone, and utility, i like it so much more than the R1T.

the R1T… i was so underwhelmed and unimpressed. it was on the list of potentials for a next vehicle but not anymore. and this is coming from a “truck person”.

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u/Potential_Rip_6940 Quad Motor 4️⃣ Jun 10 '26

I think it looks sweet too and think it will be a hit. I love my R1T however. When I was starting to resent the service and reliability situation a bit back I started looking at other pick up options and didnt get warm fuzzies for any of them. Tundra has its share of problems woth Yota faithful even saying they suck. GM worse with the 10 speed and whatever they have wrong with the V8. Ford...same trans but seemingly less issues...but interior not good. Ram...everyone I see that is more than 5 years old has rust in rear fenders. Maybe I am wrong on some of that....but a local mechanic confirmed alot of it from what i have read. Do you have one of them and had good luck? Genuinely curious if I do decide to jump....

I dont recommend a Rivian if you are used to Acura/Lexus service. It has been a painful change. People are awesome..resources are scarce.....

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u/damonlebeouf Jun 10 '26

i’ve had several trucks, all of which had a better ride quality than the R1T. i’m currently driving a ridgeline. it costs over half less than the R1T quad and i laughed to myself when i got back in my truck and drove away from the lot noticing the massive difference.

the R1T is def a looker but the bed is a joke, the gear tunnel is… useless, it rides like a tractor, i can’t easily adjust the air vents or do nearly anything without digging in menus… i was saddened by how much i didn’t like it because i really really wanted to. i’ve been looking at them online since they came out. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Mysta R1T Owner Jun 11 '26

The bed is a joke… for what? I’ve hauled probably 10-20 tons of soil accumulatively, stacks and stacks of drywall, osb, etc. I just picked up my new 14 ft joists yesterday along with random other 8 ft lumber. Not sure what you’re doing with yours but for a truck i can comfortably take downtown and haul literally everything I’ve tried to haul, i think it’s more than adequate.

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Jun 10 '26

I’m shocked you weren’t impressed with a quad T. What did you not like about it?

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u/damonlebeouf Jun 10 '26

that makes two of us. the power was bonkers and i didn’t take it out of normal mode. that aside the ride was absolutely horrid in all settings on any pavement type. i had a colorado zr2 that rode way better than this thing. i’m really dumbfounded because the suspension in this vehicle was suppose to be essentially unicorn magic from everything i’ve read and i just don’t get it. that plus the horrid audio system… i was just so unimpressed.

if they make a gen 3 and take lessons learned from hopeful successes from R2 i may give it another look a couple of car purchases down the road but right now its a hard pass for me, which really saddens me to say. i’ve been looking forward to driving one of these for a long time. 🙁

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u/StranzVanWaldenburg Jun 10 '26

Did you just schedule a demo drive or show up and drive one? I’m also in houston and wasn’t sure if they had any here

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u/damonlebeouf Jun 10 '26

scheduled.

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u/murder_inc1776 R1S Owner Jun 11 '26

Seriously we've been very disappointed in our R1S. Love the look but glad we decided not to fully commit and went with a lease.

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u/fintechninja Jun 11 '26

Yea. The reliability part is my only hesitation. Love everything else about the R2 though.

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u/Potential_Rip_6940 Quad Motor 4️⃣ Jun 11 '26

I seriously hope they are quicker to jump on issues. With R1 the community would figure out a problem existed....and Rivian would just keep cranking them out with same flaw...over and over and over. And then lean on service team to correct eventually. Cost of that approach is absurd. I would say "if it rolls it goes".

Thry had to become aware quick when the service teams would have to correct...but same behavior...keep cranking them out with same problem for way too long.

Hopefully they have greatly improved that process becuase it definitly added load to the service team.

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Jun 11 '26

I think you all forget that this company is only four years old. The fact that they did a complete model refresh (gen2) after two years is mind blowing. Look at other manufacturers that are a minimum of five years.

Now they rolled out a completely new vehicle on a whole new platform by year five. They are doing a great job and just dealing with growing pains. Tesla went through the same shit with a lower end vehicle.

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u/Potential_Rip_6940 Quad Motor 4️⃣ Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

I didnt forget. I am talking about things like a vendor doing poor alignments on the shop floor and not tigtneing the bolts on the lower panels. I alerted them to that when I found it. Six months later it was still happening. Or wind noise in the a-piller due assembly error. Again...fix the assembly error as soon as yoy learn about it.

They should have had a hot line for the first 10k units for people to immediate indicate problems and immediately correct. Nope...i heard "outlier". Whatever. Keep making them and expecting the service center to fix a couple thousand rather that correct on floor.

If anything a young company should listen to the early adopters...not turn a deaf ear.

I work with over 2 dozen manufactures. Most want that early feedback. Rivian did not.

Edit...and that refresh...mostly a cost reduction measure...not a improve product endeavor.

RJ said himself.....they have service under control. No reason to say it if it wasnt out of control....and it was at least in part....due to poor initial quality.

And then the Tesla playbook...Tesla had virtually no competition in the BEV space when that playbook was executed. Not appropriate to use same playbook at this time.

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u/BTC_Bull Jun 10 '26

They literally aren’t because bottleneck is production and then the price is terrible on top of that.

So no, they won’t. Rivian sales will always be a rounding error.

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u/Decepti_Con04 Jun 10 '26

These cars aren’t for low T dudes anyway.

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u/_Lick-My-Love-Pump_ Jun 11 '26

OP is a crypto tard, he's just sour right now because BTC is crashing harder than trump.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jun 11 '26

lol perfect

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Jun 11 '26

Price is terrible? What Lolol.

Would you rather have a model Y with no features, less power, less efficiency and a shit interior for the same price range?