trez63
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Let me start by saying that I love this truck. It's nearly flawless in many way. But it has one massive problem that is very difficult to live with. I know if you don't have the truck yet this is going to seem like a minor thing but living with it is quite another pain in the neck.
There are technically 5 keys (Phone, Metal key, 2x card keys, and Bracelet). Of all these the phone is the only passive key. The problem is the phone is proximity based and uses bluetooth. So if you come anywhere near the car it unlocks the car. Ideally you'd have to touch the door handle for this but as it is, every single time I come near the car with my phone it goes through the unlock / lock. This is a huge annoyance as I work in my garage a lot and I always have my phone with me. That means the car unlocks and locks like several hundred times a day this way. That's not even the annoying part. You can't lock the car any other way than to walk away from it. What's worse is you can't prevent it from getting locked when you walk away. So if I go and put one of my kids in the car, and then walk back inside the house to get the other kid, the car locks the first kid in the car. And then the alarm will go off... Then my phone won't unlock the car anymore on approach. It's a serious comedy of events that end up frustrating the heck out of you.
Believe it or not, that's not even the most annoying part. In my 4 days of ownership so far, I've had several hundred unintended lock/unlocks. But when I do approach the car to actually try and get in, about 25% of the time it doesn't register me at all. I have to take the phone out, load the app, wait for it to connect to the car, click unlock, and the wait for it to unlock. This typically happens after it's just locked cause I walked away from the car and then came back.
So the alternative is to turn this future off. But that means I won't have any more passive keys. Which means I have to carry the metal key around and I won't have a keyless entry at all anymore. I really wish RIVIAN would have made a touch sensitive part of the door handle like every other manufacturer to unlock and lock the door.
If anyone has come up with a better way to deal with this please let me know.
Another problem that kind of adds to this is that the doors (especially the rear) and extremely hard to close. You have to slam them. So very often it happens that my kids can't close the door, so the car just stays on for several hours because the door wasn't fully closed. This makes the cooling fans run at high speed for some reason ... anyway, I know this all seems like a minor gripe but when you live with it for a few days you'll get sick of it pretty quickly.
There are technically 5 keys (Phone, Metal key, 2x card keys, and Bracelet). Of all these the phone is the only passive key. The problem is the phone is proximity based and uses bluetooth. So if you come anywhere near the car it unlocks the car. Ideally you'd have to touch the door handle for this but as it is, every single time I come near the car with my phone it goes through the unlock / lock. This is a huge annoyance as I work in my garage a lot and I always have my phone with me. That means the car unlocks and locks like several hundred times a day this way. That's not even the annoying part. You can't lock the car any other way than to walk away from it. What's worse is you can't prevent it from getting locked when you walk away. So if I go and put one of my kids in the car, and then walk back inside the house to get the other kid, the car locks the first kid in the car. And then the alarm will go off... Then my phone won't unlock the car anymore on approach. It's a serious comedy of events that end up frustrating the heck out of you.
Believe it or not, that's not even the most annoying part. In my 4 days of ownership so far, I've had several hundred unintended lock/unlocks. But when I do approach the car to actually try and get in, about 25% of the time it doesn't register me at all. I have to take the phone out, load the app, wait for it to connect to the car, click unlock, and the wait for it to unlock. This typically happens after it's just locked cause I walked away from the car and then came back.
So the alternative is to turn this future off. But that means I won't have any more passive keys. Which means I have to carry the metal key around and I won't have a keyless entry at all anymore. I really wish RIVIAN would have made a touch sensitive part of the door handle like every other manufacturer to unlock and lock the door.
If anyone has come up with a better way to deal with this please let me know.
Another problem that kind of adds to this is that the doors (especially the rear) and extremely hard to close. You have to slam them. So very often it happens that my kids can't close the door, so the car just stays on for several hours because the door wasn't fully closed. This makes the cooling fans run at high speed for some reason ... anyway, I know this all seems like a minor gripe but when you live with it for a few days you'll get sick of it pretty quickly.
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