How to open up the rear seat floor vents?

[Phrogz]

Long story short: there are 10–20 round candies stuck inside the rear air vents, they roll back and forth through the air ducts when I drive, and it's making me insane. How do I start disassembling the floor of my 1st-gen R1T to get at these?

Slightly longer version: I live in the mountains and over the past couple weeks started finding evidence of a mouse in my car. Put out traps in several cars, caught one mouse in another car, none in the Rivian, hoped that was the end of it. Went on a road trip this past week with my wife, en route we bought some candy including a bag of cherry sours. Left them in the car at the hotel over night, and came out to find shredded paper everywhere (from them chewing on the paper napkins I leave in my side door), half-eaten parts of my wife's candy, and the cherry sours bag nibbled open. Threw it all out, started driving again…and there's a loud ruckus that sounds like someone poured marbles all over the floor in the back. Starting, stopping, turning: a cascade of noise as many balls rattle around against hard plastic. Goes back and forth between driver seat and passenger seat. Finally, I can see some of them.

I need to get in there and get them ALL out. Further, I'd like to go hunting for nests or mouse babies, so I'd like to try and lay it bare. Is there a repair manual, or community information on disassembly, that can guide me to getting access to the ductworks?

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[Mellowyellow]

Chopsticks? Adapt a straw to vacuum attachment? That way you can take them out one by one? Small piece of duct tape onto a pencil?

 

[Phrogz]

Chopsticks? Adapt a straw to vacuum attachment? That way you can take them out one by one? Small piece of duct tape onto a pencil?

If my only goal was just removing the candies, these are some great ideas. Thank you! (I fear I'll need to drive around a bit to keep moving new ones to the opening, but that's totally doable.)

I edited my original post after you answered to add that ideally I'd like to really open this up so I can find/remove any mouse nesting or mice I find. So, I'm still wondering if there's a repair manual or community advice that can point me to what needs to be removed, in what order, in order to start disassembling the rear HVAC venting so I can inspect along it all.

 

[Jeff B.]

Not sure if there are any clues in the Rivian Upfitting guide. I have it downloaded at home. You can probably search for it.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Remove the seat and unbolt the panel.

 

[forestwalker]

Long story short: there are 10–20 round candies stuck inside the rear air vents, they roll back and forth through the air ducts when I drive, and it's making me insane. How do I start disassembling the floor of my 1st-gen R1T to get at these?

Slightly longer version: I live in the mountains and over the past couple weeks started finding evidence of a mouse in my car. Put out traps in several cars, caught one mouse in another car, none in the Rivian, hoped that was the end of it. Went on a road trip this past week with my wife, en route we bought some candy including a bag of cherry sours. Left them in the car at the hotel over night, and came out to find shredded paper everywhere (from them chewing on the paper napkins I leave in my side door), half-eaten parts of my wife's candy, and the cherry sours bag nibbled open. Threw it all out, started driving again…and there's a loud ruckus that sounds like someone poured marbles all over the floor in the back. Starting, stopping, turning: a cascade of noise as many balls rattle around against hard plastic. Goes back and forth between driver seat and passenger seat. Finally, I can see some of them.

I need to get in there and get them ALL out. Further, I'd like to go hunting for nests or mouse babies, so I'd like to try and lay it bare. Is there a repair manual, or community information on disassembly, that can guide me to getting access to the ductworks?

Gasoline. Fire.

 

[SDEV]

 

[smashweights]

Launch mode uphill

 

[kewlasu]

Go to a craft store, buy some small satchel bags, get some cotton balls, get some peppermint essential oils, soak the cotton ball with the oil, put the cotton ball inside the satchel bag, and place near or inside the vent. Mice don't like to be around these.

 

[jprev]

Mousetrap

 

[MountainBikeDude]

you should reach out to @Mousetrap

 

[Mousetrap]

you should reach out to @Mousetrap

Here's the thing - there are going to be a few steps involved, so get ready. First you're gonna want to set up a bucket on a pole. You'll need a series of pathways and a marble. By the time you finish setting it all up, it'll seem like it wasn't worth the effort at all.

 

[Erik+]

Guessing you will need to remove the seats first to be able to remove those plastic moldings. There should be plenty of videos available showing how to do that, but it is not overly complex. Just start taking things out and documenting the process so you can put it all back together after your snack thieves are handled.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Mice in Rivians? My garage cats would like a word.

 

[Phrogz]

Mice in Rivians? My garage cats would like a word.

Years ago my wife’s car had mice in it. Put my (admittedly, old) cat in there; she’d been a great mouser in her youth. Came back a couple hours later to find her asleep in a sunbeam on the floor with five baby mice snuggled up against her belly. Very disappointing.

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