My Rivian R1T suddenly has torque steer when accelerating moderately

[22RivianCDH]

I am interested if anyone has noticed any torque steering when accelerating at a medium - high level pace ?

I was making a right turn onto a street with a 60MPH speed limit so I used about 3/5 of the throttle and experienced significant torque steer…I checked stability was on…later in the day on a vehicle on-ramp to the freeway …same result …I needed to completely release the throttle as the vehicle was struggling to go straight with apparent wheelspin and steering wheel tugging back an forth.
I am taking it in …just curious if anyone else is experiencing this driving behavior from their rig.
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[Attesan997]

This is in all purpose?

 

[22RivianCDH]

This is in all purpose?

Yes—-all purpose. No error codes and I turned stablity control on and off and did sift reset (if that helps I do not know ). Just a coincidence is that I had a service soon message that disappeared last week for drivers plus unavailable…. It happened once when placing the vehicle in reverse and the message quickly disappeared.
Time for a visit to the service center.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I get that feeling if I'm accelerating hard enough/turning sharp enough that the inside steer tire squirms when it gets unweighted. It's a side-effect of having a motor at each wheel that's uncoupled. It's definitely worse in conserve mode but the truck will exhibit it in all purpose too.

*Edit: Actually, when I first got the truck, I would get that feeling when just plain accelerating on a straight road at full throttle. Either I've gotten used to it doing it or Rivian has been working to improve the behavior.

 

[frostbit3]

I've only ever experienced torque steer when I was in conserve mode, was going about 50MPH or so and floored it, and it jerked the wheel to the right a bit. I haven't noticed any torque steer at all in all purpose mode though.

 

[Ripped]

I take it accelerating while on a corner or slight corner. What is the speed range (ie 30-60mph?) and what percentage of throttle (ie 60%, 100%?)

 

[JoelD]

Asking a dumb question, but is lane departure warning and lane keep assist on, and did you use the turn signal when you crossed the line?

 

[22RivianCDH]

Asking a dumb question, but is lane departure warning and lane keep assist on, and did you use the turn signal when you crossed the line?

Not a dumb question at all…especially since I didn’t provide full details of my experience. I wasn’t crossing lanes when entering the street. Maybe the lane departure was acting up?
I was in all purpose mode during the entire event with Stability On.
I was completely stopped at an intersection…Turning right onto a major street with a 60MPH speed limit. With turn signal on, I pressed the accelerator lightly until my truck began traveling almost straight ahead then I applied 40-50 % throttle so moderate acceleration. The street was dry —immediately my truck started shifting from side to side as the front wheels appeared to lose / regain traction several times …the steering wheel was pulled side to side as well—I was surprised by the aggressive nature of the steering wheel tugging back and forth and I released the throttle completely. All of my vehicles (except 1) have awd …the behavior reminded me of my Jetta 16v back in high school lol.
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