Five feet eight inches on a good day! With my leg extended on the floor, it doesn't touch the door. But, I often flex my left leg at the knee, and the outside of my left knee touches lightly, not forcefully, against the inside of the door in this same area. I am a golfer, and often wear shorts. Have to use sunscreen, and wonder if the sunscreen that was applied to my legs while golfing has reacted with the interior lining? It is my best guess. I have not encountered this in any other vehicle I have owned, so this is apparently a problem with whatever lining material is being used in the R1T.
Bingo….some lotions/sunscreens/etc can do a number on interior finishes. They literally eat the paint/finishes like you are seeing. They will probably goodwill this and do investigation on their end to increase robustness…..well they should, but I guess you will find out.
Mine is ok for now but that’s exactly where my knee touches…Just above the driver side interior door opener, where the outside of your knee touches, the interior has peeled off for an area of 1 by 3 inches. Anyone else had this happen?
I had sunscreen do this to a phone case once - some chemical interaction peeled the top layer of "texture" that gave the plastic underneath a soft-touch, grippy finish anywhere I had touched it. I was handling it and a short while later it felt like something had gotten stuck on the back of the case when I pulled it out of my pocket. I flipped it over and the soft-touch coating was "bubbling" off just like paint with paint remover. I could just push on it and it would flake off similar to how your panel looks and it was just hard, smooth, plastic underneath.
Absolutely agree. I have a Winnebago View, a Toyota RAV4, a Chevy Bolt EV and an EUV. I have driven in ALL of these vehicles with sunscreen on my legs and haven't seen ANY problem in any of these vehicles. It seems to be a poor material and bet there will be a lot of people taking notice of this spot on their driver side door looking to see if they are also having an issue. If so, maybe Rivian will change their material. Otherwise, not good advertising for Rivian.
I have owned a few other EVs myself and the only ones I have ever noticed that do this are Teslas. The hair spray and sunscreen chemicals ate through my seat and door material like this.
I remember Munro talking about a lot of the plastics are painted and how that had to be expensive compared to molded in color. This looks almost like chemically removed paint. Maybe?
