Blue green liquid pooling under Rivian

[jsully19]

I have several ounces of a blue green liquid that has dripped/leaked under the rear of our R1S. I have not received any notices or warning signs on the display. We have about 1800 miles on the truck. This is not condensation from running the air conditioner as that is a clear liquid. This liquid towards the middle, rear end of the R1S is a blue green in color and it’s only in one spot of the garage.

Has anyone had a similar problem? Any idea what this could be?

Any help is appreciated

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[SANZC02]

I have several ounces of a blue green liquid that has dripped/leaked under the rear of our R1S. I have not received any notices or warning signs on the display. We have about 1800 miles on the truck. This is not condensation from running the air conditioner as that is a clear liquid. This liquid towards the middle, rear end of the R1S is a blue green in color and it’s only in one spot of the garage.

Has anyone had a similar problem? Any idea what this could be?

Any help is appreciated

Pretty sure it is hydraulic fluid, open a service ticket.

 

[jsully19]

Will do, thank you!

 

[Dark-Fx]

Damper fluid or coolant. Should be obvious based on viscosity.

 

[Riviot]

Damper fluid or coolant. Should be obvious based on viscosity.

And taste. Blueberries: dampers. Death: coolant.

 

[Zoidz]

It could be coolant since the battery is cooled, and one thread here indicated that apparently coolant lines run to the 3rd row cooling system. Some European vehicles (BMW for one) use a blue ethylene glycol coolant. Definitely put a ticket in.

 

[Randy Chase]

Sounds like it could be battery coolant. I had a small leak on mine, where one coolant line fitting was not tight enough. Small issue, but it has a potentially larger impact. For me, at the end of a longer roadtrip, I was getting a very odd message on my screen that I was 100 miles from home, should arrive with 140 miles of range, but I needed to go the designated DC charger in order to make it. This made zero sense to me, so I kept driving. Passing the offramp to the charger, the car said I needed to turn around to charge. I was more WTF?

As I got some miles down the road, the car starting flashing more warning signs that battery was approaching critically low (yet still showed plenty of range). When I took the off ramp and came to a stop, the car announced it was no longer driving and I was stuck. On an off ramp. With a family in the car. And me looking nervously at the cars coming off the freeway.

Thankfully, I was able to contact service, we did a full reboot and that enabled me to drive home the final few miles. After some other attempts at online fixing... the car was towed to a service center where they determined it was the coolant leak. A quick fix and I picked up the car and it has been flawless since.

 

[HaveBlue]

It could be coolant since the battery is cooled, and one thread here indicated that apparently coolant lines run to the 3rd row cooling system. Some European vehicles (BMW for one) use a blue ethylene glycol coolant. Definitely put a ticket in.

That would be refrigerant for the AC not coolant. Pretty much gaseous at 1 atm. Battery coolant is a good guess.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Covered a few times. Call Rivian. Tell them bucketloads poured out. They'll send a trailer. If you tell them only a few drips came out, they'll make you drive to the SC (and risk further damage). ?

 

[jsully19]

Sounds like it could be battery coolant. I had a small leak on mine, where one coolant line fitting was not tight enough. Small issue, but it has a potentially larger impact. For me, at the end of a longer roadtrip, I was getting a very odd message on my screen that I was 100 miles from home, should arrive with 140 miles of range, but I needed to go the designated DC charger in order to make it. This made zero sense to me, so I kept driving. Passing the offramp to the charger, the car said I needed to turn around to charge. I was more WTF?

As I got some miles down the road, the car starting flashing more warning signs that battery was approaching critically low (yet still showed plenty of range). When I took the off ramp and came to a stop, the car announced it was no longer driving and I was stuck. On an off ramp. With a family in the car. And me looking nervously at the cars coming off the freeway.

Thankfully, I was able to contact service, we did a full reboot and that enabled me to drive home the final few miles. After some other attempts at online fixing... the car was towed to a service center where they determined it was the coolant leak. A quick fix and I picked up the car and it has been flawless since.

Wow, that’s intense! Thanks for sharing your experience. it sounds like a coolant leak can be a real problem!

I put a ticket in for the leak on Wednesday and our R1S was towed to the Service Center today. Hats off to the Rivian team for expediting the ticket as the original service date for the truck was October 25! We hope it’s a simple fix but we haven’t been told the cause yet.

Thank you all that responded to this post. I appreciate the support and feel like I have an extended family helping me out!

 

[Riviot]

No pics? What a tease.

 

[jsully19]

No pics? What a tease.

On the way yesterday to the Rivian Service Center.

 

[Riviot]

On the way yesterday to the Rivian Service Center.

Show us the juice!

 

[jsully19]

Show us the juice!

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