Recent content by brandoncole

Curious what about it wasn’t meeting the need. We have two kids (one and five). The R1S has been more than sufficient, especially hauling a full Christmas gift load + luggage, kids, stroller, an 80lb dog, dog stuff, and two adults. Even with dual car seats, I was out with the boys on Friday...

Will flip our 2026 R1S Dual Max for the Gen 3 R1S Quad as soon as it gets good reviews (or demonstrates the current manufacturing kinks have been ironed out.) R2 is too small for my liking. Wanted a Quad this go round but having never owned an EV, I wanted to see how important the extra range...

No connection issues. I’ve had those before where the app says no cloud connection, but not for quite a while after a hard reset. All good with manually triggering the climate to turn on because that automatically wakes the car up. Says “waking” before you are allowed to adjust the temperature...

Thanks all. Glad it’s not just a singular case. Reporting back that I tried scheduling for a day later. No dice. Seems to be something related to the car sleeping when it reaches the scheduled time. Stays asleep. However, when I woke the car up and was in it and scheduled, the now awake car...

Yeah. Think it’s an app issue or car issue?

Hey all, out of curiosity a while ago, I scheduled our 2026 R1S to get itself ready by 2:00, pulling from the charger and heating the car. This was at 1:15. 2:00 comes and despite it being listed as scheduled in the app, the car was sleeping. It works when triggering an immediate climate...

“Rivian is calling marketing demos "après events" at upscale ski resorts while armed para-militants are shooting Honda moms protesting in the streets here in the USA.” That’s a great point.

Richmond SC is the absolute jam.

Depends on where you are. It’s not at all uncommon here to have a household income of $500k with both people making $250k or more before bonuses or side income. That’s definitely not defined as rich. Point being that it’s all relative. Having said that, a new Rivian is half of a G-Wagon or more...

I plan to keep mine until Spring and swap the OEM Perelli for the Michelin Defender LTX or the Nokian Ones to get that 22” efficiency 3 out of 4 seasons.

Don’t think so. Range hit was immediate. Has gotten worse as it’s gotten colder. ‘26 Dual Max Perf. Mostly on Standard with auto off. Tires are between 47-50 psi. Only addition that might be affecting it is added mudflaps, but those aren’t large and are mostly in the wheel wells. However...

‘26 Max. I had to buy the 20” AS wheel and tire set from the gear shop and have our SC swap them for the 22” OEM Range, which they left in bags in the 2nd row/trunk. They wouldn’t swap as we were buying. Only after delivery. On range, big hit. Regularly went from 2.5~ to 1.5~ around town...

Apparently she has. I just asked. “Uh, yeah, of course I wave.” This is eight years into marriage and I am mortified.

Heck yeah. We were Lincoln Park/Eastern Market for 20 years. Moved to Charlottesville and I miss Capitol Hill every week. Especially the walk down East Capitol with a dog. Can’t imagine street parking a Rivian though.

Me and the boys disagree! R1S with ATs whips the shit out of a Tahoe any day of the week. We have four now in our friend group. Our wives do drive them, but my wife can barely get in the car unless it’s in lowest. She additionally hates that I put the 4Kines camo seat covers in. I also see...