r1vlife
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Hey everyone,
Today is the 12th day I have had my R1T and I came home to this surprise.
Sorry @jjswan33 if you haven't received your bundles yet. There was no tracking that was sent to me.
I received the all weather floormats, the off road recovery kit and the field kit. The crossbars are still MIA.
By now, everyone knows the field kit doesn't fit flush and the off road recovery kit is just an off road recovery kit.
What I haven't seen mentioned is how big a PITA installing the all weather floormats is. Popping out the chilewich floor mats was easy. Then came 5 minutes of me installing the front 2, and 25 minutes trying to get the rear all weathers installed.
Pro tip: adjust your front seats all the way back so you have plenty of room to try to align the tabs of the floormats to the floor.
It was a mildly frustrating process of figuring out why the floormats would not snap down. You basically have to somehow lift the floormat enough so that it's not catching on the floor, so you can align it just right to snap them down. Easy as pie right?
Alright the fun starts with the rear one. It's great that Rivian made a long one piece all weather floormat. That also meant that it's super unwieldy when you're trying to angle it in just right so that you aren't catching the seat backs or the rear seats.
There are 3 tabs to lock down for the back, one on each end and one right smack in the middle. I found that the clearance is extremely tight. You really don't have room to play around if you want all 3 to snap in properly. I would be able to snap in one end but due to how the floormat was seated, the middle and the other end would not be able to snap in, or I would be able to snap both ends but not the middle.
To save you approximately 20+ minutes...
Maneuver this unwieldy piece of rubber/plastic??? by lifting and adjusting its position until you're able to snap it in the middle. Then have fun smoothing and adjusting each side until they are able to snap in their respective spots.
Last step, thank Rivian for designing such tight tolerances for their rear floormat. Think about how much time you would have saved if they had just installed this at the factory or at the service center before you took delivery.
And of course, enjoy your new all weather floormats!
- Your R1VLIFE advocate
Today is the 12th day I have had my R1T and I came home to this surprise.
Sorry @jjswan33 if you haven't received your bundles yet. There was no tracking that was sent to me.
I received the all weather floormats, the off road recovery kit and the field kit. The crossbars are still MIA.
By now, everyone knows the field kit doesn't fit flush and the off road recovery kit is just an off road recovery kit.
What I haven't seen mentioned is how big a PITA installing the all weather floormats is. Popping out the chilewich floor mats was easy. Then came 5 minutes of me installing the front 2, and 25 minutes trying to get the rear all weathers installed.
Pro tip: adjust your front seats all the way back so you have plenty of room to try to align the tabs of the floormats to the floor.
It was a mildly frustrating process of figuring out why the floormats would not snap down. You basically have to somehow lift the floormat enough so that it's not catching on the floor, so you can align it just right to snap them down. Easy as pie right?
Alright the fun starts with the rear one. It's great that Rivian made a long one piece all weather floormat. That also meant that it's super unwieldy when you're trying to angle it in just right so that you aren't catching the seat backs or the rear seats.
There are 3 tabs to lock down for the back, one on each end and one right smack in the middle. I found that the clearance is extremely tight. You really don't have room to play around if you want all 3 to snap in properly. I would be able to snap in one end but due to how the floormat was seated, the middle and the other end would not be able to snap in, or I would be able to snap both ends but not the middle.
To save you approximately 20+ minutes...
Maneuver this unwieldy piece of rubber/plastic??? by lifting and adjusting its position until you're able to snap it in the middle. Then have fun smoothing and adjusting each side until they are able to snap in their respective spots.
Last step, thank Rivian for designing such tight tolerances for their rear floormat. Think about how much time you would have saved if they had just installed this at the factory or at the service center before you took delivery.
And of course, enjoy your new all weather floormats!
- Your R1VLIFE advocate
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