Yep, have em in bed. In my haste to fix a leak at the tenant's place, I didn't use em. Woulda, coulda, shoulda...live and learn. I'm hoping that I can take the panel off and manipulate it back into shape with a heat gun. Worst case, I'll get a new panel down the road.
Ha! I call BS. I’ve owned several pickups. Loved them all, but never even thought to blame the manufacturer for the damage if I was at fault and left an unsecured heavy item in the bed. I try to always take some responsibility for my mistakes. Gesh!!!
If you design & produce a model that has a metal rail (ideally two) which can receive the same anchors as in the back of the R1S, this will sell like hotcakes. Still don’t understand why Rivian didn’t do that. The anchors could be so useful.
yes, and we designed a foldable line so you could access the bottom stuff easily.
but we are still working on the design of the pattern(want to make the shape of it same as the rivian ridge, so that this mat could sit flush.
once we finish the design, we are going to start making molding for it. it shall take around 20 days.
and one month on the ocean cargo. We are expecting this to be available in December.
Awesome, thanks. The metal panel did not appear to be dented from inspection from gear tunnel (and, yes, from knocking on it, it's very thin). Can you confirm if the oval holes that were exposed in the floor bed are tab insets for the plastic panel, or are they water drains? I'm going to try to straighten the plastic panel with some help from a heat gun.I took this video when I installed some extra tie down points in my bed. I was thinking of making a how to video and got too busy to follow through. The video shows the cover removed. I wanted to see how strong the attachment points were to get an idea of how much load they can take. The answer is not much as you can see. I installed these (pic) to make it easier to lash things down in the bed to prevent what happened to the OP. They work great, but I wouldn't tie my dirtbike down with them. I just bought some steel to make a frame that attaches to all of the fasteners that hold the rear cover on. It will have integrated wheel chocks for our dirtbikes and add middle tie down points. It should also make the whole thing a lot stronger. I'll post pics when it's done.
Jake, I suspect you dented the thin panel blow the tonneau cover. Should be easy enough to pound back from inside the gear tunnel. I agree with everyone here that is surprised this isn't sturdier. At the moment, I'm trying down dirtbikes that are pushing against the tonneau cover. It's a little sketchy, but it's stronger than this thin sheet metal below it.
I'm not sure. I can't remember, but I'm planning to take it apart again On my way Sunday or Monday and can let you know. If you take pry the plastic covers off, then remove the fasteners, it comers off pretty easy. just don't lose any little washers or other fiddly bits into the cracks. I'm looking to bolster it a lot because our bikes could put a lot of force against the back of the bed if I had to make a sudden stop. Sadly, my fix will be totally custom and not something I expect anyone will produce for sale. That's the problem with having a new car in limited production... The aftermarket support is going to suck for a while until there's a bigger market. I'll be in touch as soon as I get in there.
Great. I'm interested to know what parts they end up replacing. I was chatting with the guy who owns the body shop here in California that Rivian uses when I picked up my truck for after some paint repairs. He let me know that a lot of the trim panels and seals on the R1's are one time use. Meaning, if you remove them, you usually have to replace them. It's one of those things that shows Rivian's youth in the industry. Many car manufactures practice the same thing because they determined it's cheaper than engineering parts that can easily be removed and reinstalled. It's all about lowering the cost of production. But it Rivian's case, he said many of the one time use parts are bigger and more expensive than most OEM's. A good example is the plastic trim on top of the tailgate. I have some paint scratches from dirt getting under it and the plastic flexing and rubbing the dirt into the paint. I installed some PPF myself on the top of the tailgate and had to carefully tuck the PPF under the plastic trim because it can't be removed without breaking the fasteners that hold it on.
