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No More Unlock Owl Sound?

Does your R1 still have an unlock sound?


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Unlock sound? Besides clunk/whir/squeal? Did service lubricate your door handles? Non-seasonally there has never been a deliberate sound.
That’s all mine did. Plenty of noise on unlock but it was all just door handles popping out, cooling louvers opening, relays clicking into place, HVAC spinning up, etc. No purposefully generated sounds for unlocking.
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Other than organ music at Halloween last year, the only unlock sound I recall is the door handles presenting themselves and the whirrs of the air pump doing it's thing.
 

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I never had an unlock sound, and I got my truck in June of 2022
 

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Other than organ music at Halloween last year, the only unlock sound I recall is the door handles presenting themselves and the whirrs of the air pump doing it's thing.
We had an unlock sound during the prior Halloween (2022) as well. It was an owl.
 
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Y’all are buzz killers. I am still going to believe the unlock actuator noise is a sound sampled from Battlestar Galactic (the reimagined one).
 

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No unlock sound other than Halloween mode, ever.
 

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On Halloween night last year, my truck stopped playing the unlock sound. I put in a ticket and never really heard of a resolution or troubleshooting plan. I finally took my truck into the shop (for other things, not the unlock sound) and the resolution was that at some point Rivian removed the unlock sound. They said none of the vehicles on the lot played the unlock sound anymore.

I'm a little skeptical about this, so I thought I would set up a poll.
I swear there was a noise too. But behold, Here is a video from the very beginning. No unlock noise.

No unlock noise at 0:54
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