Rivian R2 place in line

[dleepnw]

Some people really don't give a hoot about hands free, self-driving. Cruise Control and maybe lane assist is more than enough for me.

My wife and I enjoy driving our truck enough that some weekends we just go out and find the twisty roads near by, drop the suspension and go bombing around. Such fun!

Its more eyes free that LiDAR and RAP1 will enable wrt autonomy. The current generation of tech allows for hands free.

Rivians are such great vehicles that I just love driving it (especially of course back/off road but there are times, especially routine, daily commutes or long stretches of road trips, where being eyes free would be pretty awesome. I'll most likely wait for Gen2 R2.

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[Eric9610]

I wouldn’t go as far as saying the R2 active dampers won’t fail before 68K miles. I had a failed rear-right damper after 3 yrs and about 50K miles of driving, while the air suspension itself has had no issues.

Most of the problems to date on the R1s have actually been failing or leaking dampers, not issues with the air springs or compressor. The air suspension failures are coming though, it just needs more time lol. Air springs and compressors tend to fail after about 5–7 yrs.

Contrary to what you wrote:

1. Air suspension leaks → truck collapses or sags

Most common serious failure.


What fails

• Air springs (air bags)
• Air lines
• valves/regulators
• compressor overheating

Almost all failure reported have been related to air suspension. Just search this forum.