For what it's worth, the employees I spoke with at the Atlanta Service center today had never seen an R1S, and had no idea when they would be shipping to regular customers.
Just stopped by the Atlanta Service Center and wanted to share my overall good experience.
Rolled up around 2p after having driven 4 hrs+ back from Savannah with my wide and youngest (of three). We needed to stop and at least SEE one truck before I purchased one.
The team inside was very...
The items on my list are subject to physical product inventory constraints. Not true as far as I know for paint.
That said, 100% could be true that due to batching there are very slight delays on the order of a few days to weeks for uncommon color combos. Just not the several months to years...
All anecdotal since Rivian never answers a question in a straightforward manner.
1) Had noticed lots of 21s lately, which admittedly could be due to batching
2) Lots of 20s had bumped back delivery windows
3) On one of the Shop threads, there was mention that a guide told the OP he basically...
I don't think color matters. The things I've determinwd that'll slow you down in no particular order:
20 AT
Manual Tonneau
Max pack
Explore
OC interior
R1S
Bad location far from service center
At least you got a First Mile? 8/20 order and crickets.
As an inveterate optimist (masochist?), I'm going to follow this thread, despite now having a Nov - Dec 22 window.
I just really can't see myself configuring the powered tonneau. I know it's gonna break at some inopportune time. That said, if an exact match for my config but with a powered tonneau comes along in the Shop I'm going to probably buy it o_O
I'm exactly in your shoes, but with a delivery date nov-dec. Pre-ordered 8/20. Curious, do you have the Manual or powered tonneau configured? I had Manual. That's my guess as to why I'm so late.
I am a 8/20 R1T common order combo (not OC), and made an order change like you mention. It seems I'm behind most 2021 orders with a Nov/Dec 22 delivery date. So I wanted expect to get that second truck before next year either.
I swapped from a Max Explore to a Large / Adventure / BM and my delivery window only went from 23H1 to Nov/Dec 22.
If I don't see a very close match in my Shop window I'll likely swap back to a Max and just wait the extra 6 months.
If my window had jumped way up I'd have stuck with the large...
One optimistic (but unlikely) thought:
"Over the next two weeks, we'll share delivery windows with R1S customers who have updated delivery timing in 2022" could be interpreted as some people have actually had their delivery timing moved up if they have the perfect build.