Thermometer way off

[irvineboy]

My R1S temperature was 10 degrees higher than reality. It’s always off telling the outside temperature. Other owners experience the same readings?

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[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Out of idle curiosity I'd wonder where the actual physical temperature probe is located. On older cars with this feature it's behind the grill. No idea in the Riv. Although mine sometimes tells me it's hotter than a brick sh**house (if the vehicle's been sitting in the sun all day) when I unlock the door it usually really is that hot inside, LOL. ????

 

[irvineboy]

I thought the temperature reading is for outside temperature. It said 90 today when it was more like high 70s.

 

[Magicbus]

On the app? it's the inside temperature. Mine says 106 right now and it probably is as it's all closed up and in the sun.

 

[irvineboy]

Not the app. On the screen inside the vehicles. The temp on the upper right of the screen is for the exterior temperature not inside temperature. So my thermometer is off. Way off.

 

[foozed]

New 2025 r1s and same thing. Always 8-10 higher than what it is.

 

[Singletracker]

On my ‘23 R1T, the outside temperature reading is rarely even close to reality. It’s usually reading way too high. I don’t even bother to look at it. Wherever they have the sensor located, it’s in the wrong place. It would be nice to have a reasonably accurate temperature gauge.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Did anyone ever figure out where the actual temperature probe is located? Off-the-cuff guess is somewhere by the MobileEye camera?

 

[ksujeff99]

Is the little probe on the bottom of the driver’s side mirror.

 

[350Industrial]

Same here- truck always thinks it's way hotter outside than reality

 

[JacobAZ]

My Gen 2 R1T is accurate within a degree or two, unless parked in the sun for a while. In that case it reads 5-10 degrees hotter when I first get in and takes about 15 minutes driving to get the temp down to what the weather service says. If stuck in traffic and moving slow the reading does not go down. Remember the pavement radiates a lot of heat. So, wherever the probe is, it is obviously picking up heat from the body of the vehicle and needs a breeze to get the air temp. Currently the R1T is in the garage and reads 97 degrees, same as the thermometer in the garage. My model Y was the same way.

 

[Laserboy1054]

Mine always reads pretty accurately _but_ only after the vehicle has been in-motion for a while. The air temperature in the vicinity of a big chunk of metal sitting in sunlight is going to be much higher than the standard "in the shade" temperature in the region. The thermometer itself needs time to cool off once it has warmed up. So unless you've been in-motion long enough to overcome the effects of just sitting in the sunshine, I wouldn't be surprised by an "inaccurate" reading. I'm not saying that your vehicle's thermometer isn't screwed up--that might well be the case. But there might be another explanation.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Currently the R1T is in the garage and reads 97 degrees, same as the thermometer in the garage.

*Reads your post*

*Sees your location is "Arizona"*

Yikes, sorry about that man! I would literally die if my garage was that hot, haha. 🫠

 

[Laserboy1054]

*Reads your post*

*Sees your location is "Arizona"*

Yikes, sorry about that man! I would literally die if my garage was that hot, haha. 🫠

Our seat coolers are utter life savers in places like that! I recall living in Tucson and having to steer with my knuckles because the steering wheel was too hot for the palms of my hands. And if I accidentally brushed a metal component that had been in the sun, like the key, it would leave a red burn. (My car was an '81 VW Rabbit with a black interior and no air conditioner--I was in college and it was _cheap_!)

 

[ksujeff99]

Outside temperature readings in vehicles are well established engineering at this point. How can a mid 90s Camry have an accurate temperature yet my Rivian can't? This goes into the over-engineered solutions bucket, along with the camp speaker, the key fob, etc.

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