Factory winch and sliders / rock rails spotted on this Rivian R1T?

[R1Sky Business]

Also note that the corners of the front bumper in front of the front tires have been "carved out" for additional clearance.

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[Ralph]

I'm sure they've tried to utilize the existing structure. It would be poor business sense to alienate 30-50k worth of customers.

I don't disagree that they would/should have tried.

But I suspect the number of people that both want, and will spend $10k and up for a replacement bumper and winch is far lower than the number of people who want and are willing to pay for to retrofit a well design, working auto tonneau.

Even considering that the tonneau only applies to R1T, not the R1S.

My point? I think they are alienating far more people over the tonneau than they are over bumper/winch combo that was never promised.

Adding a bumper/winch to an R1T refresh along with the new computer bus architecture, subframe design etc. feeds renewed purchasing interest in the R1T.

All idle speculation on my part......

 

[R1Sky Business]

I saw this truck a few months ago when I was off road in the eastern sierra. Want a factory winch and a stronger bumper so badly!

Didn't they say in a recent q & a that they were NOT doing Bumper or winch in near future....

 

[R1Sky Business]

It seems to me that if we ever get the option for that winch and bumper it will be with a complete spec refresh. If Rivian won't provide for or let current owners, who they forced into manual covers, retrofit the new auto tonneau cover, they are highly unlikely to make this available to us.

And if they did, it would likely be around $10k.

It's only $$$. Start saving today ?

 

[Ralph]

It's only $$$. Start saving today ?

I've thought more about this. Unless available as part of an off-road package on a new vehicle, I'm now thinking a retrofit would cost $15k from Rivian.

A Warn Platinum winch of sufficient size retails for $3k; so $5k from Rivian. Bumper $5k; labor $5k.

There certainly are Rivian buyers that would find value in excess of that price; I'm not one of them.

But I do hope that an off-road package on a future refresh will be available. It would likely be a little more palatable by avoiding labor (at least).

 

[swflor]

Perhaps they (Rivian) simply called a tow service that was available in the area of the trail where the failure happened?

The Ford has “Rivian Automotive LLC” with the DOT number on the side. More likely Rivian is moving it themselves.

 

[Cycliste]

I don’t see any radio antenna

 

[zefram47]

Need. Neeeed. There was a FB post at one point in 2022 where a Rivian official rep said we'd get a winch option. I do hope this and the sliders become available at some point and work with existing trucks. I'm especially curious how they made the winch work...either an aux 12V battery or perhaps a dedicated DC-DC converter with high amperage.

 

[ElGuapo]

I would be absolutely shocked if there were a retrofit option:

1) The Tesla way, which Rivian follows, is hardware upgrade as you go, no retrofit, and buy a new one if you want the new hardware - whatever it is. This is the way.

2) SCs have zero capacity to do any repairs right now on existing fleet. They'd have even less capacity if there was some sort of retrofit like this. It takes time and money that Rivian doesn't have or want to spend to make it work as a retrofit.

3) RJ already said they'd have some hardware updates, etc after they refresh the assembly line at some point next year. See #1 above.

 

[crashmtb]

I would be absolutely shocked if there were a retrofit option:

1) The Tesla way, which Rivian follows, is hardware upgrade as you go, no retrofit, and buy a new one if you want the new hardware - whatever it is. This is the way.

2) SCs have zero capacity to do any repairs right now on existing fleet. They'd have even less capacity if there was some sort of retrofit like this. It takes time and money that Rivian doesn't have or want to spend to make it work as a retrofit.

3) RJ already said they'd have some hardware updates, etc after they refresh the assembly line at some point next year. See #1 above.

why on earth would something like a winch bumper and winch not be available as an aftersales accessory?

These sorts of accessories are money printing machines.

 

[Rivdog]

why on earth would something like a winch bumper and winch not be available as an aftersales accessory?

These sorts of accessories are money printing machines.

If the Rivian SC’s weren’t totally overwhelmed, I’d agree they could be. With 3+ month wait times, they gotta focus on making sure R1’s are actually operable as designed before having techs spend time adding accessories, even at huge margins.

 

[ElGuapo]

why on earth would something like a winch bumper and winch not be available as an aftersales accessory?

These sorts of accessories are money printing machines.

Also, that pic doesn’t look like an “accessory” that would be DIY. If it were, sure, sell as many as you can like some Jeep part. But that looks like it takes legit work to do at an SC. Right now, the SC can’t even put on new $4,500 wheels until end of October…

 

[Riptide]

I love how phone cameras nowadays have like a billion pixels, but whenever someone posts some important picture, it looks like it was taken from some Blackberry in the 90s.

There must have been a Sasquatch behind the wheel!

 

[Riptide]

I saw this truck a few months ago when I was off road in the eastern sierra. Want a factory winch and a stronger bumper so badly!

Take my money! I want it

 

[Buckets0fun]

Also note that the corners of the front bumper in front of the front tires have been "carved out" for additional clearance.

Note: this is also where the front radar units are.

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