It will be a fun day!
I just hope it doesn't take a week or two in my case... Work laptop and my Tennis gear are locked inside and I do need to work and more importantly (of course) I do want to play tennis
People have had success using the jump leads in the back to get the vehicle unlocked. Have you tried that?I just hope it doesn't take a week or two in my case... Work laptop and my Tennis gear are locked inside and I do need to work and more importantly (of course) I do want to play tennis
Briefly, I only have a 5A trickle charger. I measured the leads at 0V (so I'm assuming the battery is dead dead), and when running the trickle charger in recovery mode it goes up to 19V and back to 0 in a cycle for a minute before it shuts off.
I live way out in the boonies now. It also died right before the labor day holiday weekend and part of the delay was that none of the techs were working over the weekend to figure out their schedule.I just hope it doesn't take a week or two in my case... Work laptop and my Tennis gear are locked inside and I do need to work and more importantly (of course) I do want to play tennis
I tried that with a small solar trickle charger and it just would never charge the 12v battery.
God bless Amazon prime same-day delivery. I put an order on a Noco Boost X a couple of hours ago and I just got it delivered to my door. Jumped the R1T from the back leads and I was able to unlock both driver-side doors. It looks like there's an alarm sounding (turn signal flashing and a sound on the interior) and that's pretty much the only thing the truck did.
Great news. Do you mind sharing the link for the one you purchased, might be helpful to others.
Absolutely!
It would be very unwise to do anything to the modify 12v system while these vehicles are still under warranty. Rivian will take care of any issues accordingly, and most owners should leave it at that. It's important to note that they have made significant progress via software updates to increase the vigilance of the vehicle and app notifying owners well in advance of the 12v battery dying. I had 9 days heads up via the notification before a mobile tech came out to replace mine and it drove fine the whole time prior to being replaced. Sometimes you get unlucky and there's little, if any, warning prior to a 12v failure, but that's becoming increasingly rare, and often correlated with operator errors such as seatbelts unknowingly left buckled, doors ajar etc all of which will drain the 12v (and the 400v main pack) keeping the vehicle awake, climate on etc. You won't always get the full story from folks posting about their bricked Rivians here.
From previous discussions about this topic, the consensus is there is probably a blocking diode in the rear connection for safety reasons, so you can't use that connection to measure or tap 12 VDC.
All of the 35+ control modules are powered via the 12 volt battery, so yeah, it requires a lot of current to boot up the vehicle. Rivian documents that it needs to be 30 amps for that reason. As you discovered, a trickle charger won't cut it.That's the one. I didn't charge it out of the box, and it drained pretty quickly. So either the 12v sucks A LOT of juice to get it started or the battery it is indeed shorted. I've disconnected everything already as I needed to jump in a couple of meetings, this time with my laptop and not my phone
