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It’d just be one more thing to go bad with wear and tear or manufacturing defect. I would take non-powered open/close if given the choice. This is still a premium brand with comparatively low production volume of cars and parts. Anyone expecting average or below average repair costs need a...

After quick glance at McMaster-Carr, a possible solution: Elevator bolt through a hole drilled through the plastic panel, with a piece of rubber mat covering flange of bolt, then a eye nut on the shaft of bolt. Might need to shorten bolt. A paracord or nylon strap could then be attached to ring...

How do all habits form? Starts with conscious decision, followed by repetition to the point where what was done consciously becomes routine and almost subconscious? I don’t have a habit of using the frunk. Initially made conscious decision to use it. But soon found it inconvenient because, with...

Rivianroamer’s list is more current and you can sort by “recently added” to see newest to oldest.

Already mentioned, R2 is smaller/shorter in height than R1. Regardless of how often one uses the frunk, someone of average height shouldn’t have any problem reaching up to bring the hood down. The perceived problem is either based on making false equivalency of the two, or based on one being...

I’d be more concerned about dust being sucked into the cabin and settling in all nooks and crannies… than “exhaust”. While in motion, the cabin is a vacuum—having lower pressure than the air outside. This is an impractical idea. And like most patents, it won’t go anywhere. Unless, there is a...

Even w/o attachment point, it’d be an easy DIY. Drill a hole in the plastic panel, attach strap with low profile hardware and make sure there is non-marring padding/buffer between underside of hood and hardware. In use, you just have to remember not to yank on the strap so much that you are...

Exactly what I thought of.

Plus… high gasoline prices due to a war of choice with no exit plan. Plus, policy change that motivated nearly all automakers operating in the US to pull back or cancel previous EV plans, which means lack of alternatives and potentially more customers for Rivian (but the street and journalists...

That's better than Rivian's official 2.07 mi/kWh data point for the same sized factory ATs.

Since we're not done beating this dead horse... I just had a real-life reminder on one of many things Apple Maps (which CarPlay relies on for nav/mapping) is still absolute trash since original launch date of September 19, 2012. Have you tried creating a custom route? I spent the last 40+...

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Gary isn't always recording, especially if him and vehicle are asleep. They wake to record when a face is detected—supposedly according to past threads, though some say it's motion activated. But that would mean they have to be awake enough to detect faces or motion. So if they are in deep sleep...

My god. How did people survive to procreate when cars didn’t even have gas struts on hoods, trunks and rear hatches? What’s the next obscure future gripe? A self-driving car didn’t come with a humanoid robot butler to carry you from bed to car? R1 has a powered hood because of its height...

Over promising tend to lead to expectations (not met) and law suits. Which lead to them doing this, to cover their formerly bare asses?

I just want the Irvine RAN to be operational

The question is why would you want that $212+ obsolete pad instead of the one Rivian has just begun to implement into production… because the 2025 version is still not good enough? It is essentially the same as Gen1 with addition of that central divider and keycard reader for Gen2. Your phones...

If you have a suspension leak, and you don't use kneel mode, you'd know it judging by how the car sits overnight, or over a couple days—lower than where you left it or listing to one side like a boat taking on water. You'd also hear the suspensions compressor running more often than it should...

Yep. My personal experience with SF is that if you have multiple policies with them and have been with them a long time, they generally try to maintain your level of satisfaction. Also, exact same experience with previous car when it was rear ended by a kid insured by GEICO. Months of calls...

Yah, it's preferred; i.e. once flagged for update it checks to see if vehicle is currently connected to a known WiFi network. If it is, download commences. If not, eventually it will download through its own on-board connection, be it 5G (for R2) or LTE (all R1s to-date, until production shifts...