the long way downunder
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I mean the opening to the tunnel is obstructed by the bracket holding the striker assembly.Are you just talking about how the striker sits ever so slightly proud of the plastic used as the step? The internal mechanism would have to be moved out. Probably doable but I'm not so sure they could do it without having to redesign it. I'll look more closely at the bale sometime later.
Here's a photo that shows the mechanism and conveniently shows the silhouette to illustrate how much of the tunnel is obscured, but the angle of the photo diminishes the actual size of the mechanism.
I've been futzing around with a sliding shelf and a box on the shelf. The latch mechanism limits the size of things like the camp kitchen. I'm sufficiently optimistic to think one of the causes for delaying the camp kitchen is to relocate that assembly … (unlikely, but anything's possible … after all, they have to do a lot of work to finish Max Pack and that could well mean an opportunity to change the stamping for that hatch and the fender.)
It seems to me they could have put it in the fender under the hatch cover. The hatch itself is beefy and would handle the latch being off-center of the hinge. The hatch looks heavily over-engineered as if they had other plans for it (I'm surprised it's not hollowed out as a compartment.)
Rivian also needs to cut the quarter panel at the C pillar – it's an expensive "fender bender" to replace that whole panel extending to the head of the A pillar.
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