The best and worst vehicle to move with. [RANDOM RANT]

[2kwik4u]

Wife and I bought a house about 6mi away from our rental. So, we're making a ton of small trips to get the small "stuff" over there before movers get here. I've moved a ton of times in my life, with a pickup truck, on a weekend. Rewards of a mis-spent youth I suppose.

This thing is the single most awesome and the single most infuriating piece of equipment I've ever used. As soon as one awesome thing works, something else awful appears.

• I've jammed the tailgate shut twice because of the asinine tailgate flap thing hitting a box/tote/etc.
• The tailgate flap thing makes the bed longer, which is nice.
• The bed is the size of a postage stamp to to start with, which sucks.
• The bed rail mounts work great for light tie downs
• The tailgate sounds like it's off a 1950's C10, it's hollow, and metallic and sounds like a crappy after thought.
• The gear tunnel and frunk are AMAZING for stuff that can't or shouldn't go in the bed.
• The frunk is oddly shaped and nothing, and I mean NOTHING sits flush on the bottom.
• The rear seat folds forward with underseat storage.
• The underseat storage is just large enough to fit one thing, and then is oddly shaped like the frunk
• The rear camera on the cab is great for watching your stuff fly out (that was a bad 15min)
• The constant "lock/unlock" with my phone in my pocket at the new house is wildly agitating
• leaving the phone in the truck means the HVAC runs while we're loading/unloading, ugh.
• If I'm at home, and the truck goes to sleep while I'm loading, then I hop in, I have to repair BT for the key to work. WTF?!?!
• The plastic bed liners scratch/gouge easily
• it's this side of impossible to get into the bed with the truck at standad height. Even in "kneel" height it's a jump. I never thought I would miss a feature as simple as the step built into the bumper of my Sierra.
• The seams in the never ending bed flaps for extendo tailgate and spare tire storage means NOTHING slides into the bed easily.

I can't imagine trying to use this thing as a work truck where I have to get in/out of it multiple times a day, and actually use the bed for "truck stuff". It's singly handedly the WORST bed I've ever interacted with. Clearly not designed by anyone that has used a bed for anything meaningful on a regular basis. it works, but it's just chocked full of compromises. BUT....WAIT.....There are flashes of brilliance here. Those tie downs on the bed rails are great. the rear cab camera is great. Then there's the "dry" storage, it's like moving with an SUV in the rain. papers, and delicate "stuff" was safe from the snow/crap that was going on outdoors. Pillows and clothes were moved safely and relatively efficiently.

This continues to be the most polarizing vehicle I've ever owned. I mean, I got the stuff down yesterday, but it was an emotional roller coaster of a day. Wildly pissed at the dumbass tailgate one moment, then super excited to have a Frunk the next.

Thanks for coming to my rant. Hope everyone has a splendid week.

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[RivianRiverRat]

Infuriating-nope
Compromises - sometimes
Problem solving mode - yes
One of the RF vendors bed mat to keep stuff from sliding around and a nice heavy duty bed size piece of cardboard around to keep stuff sliding

 

[McLovin]

• I've jammed the tailgate shut twice because of the asinine tailgate flap thing hitting a box/tote/etc.
• The bed is the size of a postage stamp to to start with, which sucks.
• The gear tunnel and frunk are AMAZING for stuff that can't or shouldn't go in the bed.

lol...we just moved my mother from Upstate NY to VA 2 weeks ago. I had the perfect plan for packing some of her stuff, until...the tailgate flap bit me in the ass.

The TV stand was 46" long. The bed is 48" long...until you put of the tailgate, and that flap suddenly takes away a little over 2". Guess what didn't make the trip?

On the gear tunnel...we took all of her clothes out of suitcases and stuffed them into multiple plastic bags. Worked perfectly as the bags of clothes now conformed to the size/shape of the gear tunnel.

We put our suitcases & backpacks in the frunk (they were carry-on sized suitcases).

All in all, we were able to fit a crap-ton of stuff, along w/ me, my wife, and my mother. And I managed to average 2.10 mi/kWh when the temps started at 14 degrees, and didn't get above 38 the whole trip.

 

[Zoidz]

The rear camera on the cab is great for watching your stuff fly out (that was a bad 15min)
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Those tie downs on the bed rails are great.

Then use them.

Packing properly and securing the load is 100% your responsibility, both by common sense and by law. There is zero excuse for anything ever flying out of the bed. Your haste and laziness isn't an excuse for potentially causing another vehicle to swerve or jam on the brakes, or get damage or into an accident due to your flying objects.

 

[TTedP]

what's the tailgate "flap"?

 

[2kwik4u]

Then use them.

Packing properly and securing the load is 100% your responsibility, both by common sense and by law. There is zero excuse for anything ever flying out of the bed. Your haste and laziness isn't an excuse for potentially causing another vehicle to swerve or jam on the brakes, or get damage or into an accident due to your flying objects.

Boy, I bet you're a real peach to be around at parties, eh?

I lost a plastic bucket that was in the top of an open tote of "beach crap" that I had in the bed. Spent 5 minutes turning around and 10minutes playing frogger to keep someone from hitting it. If they had, I likely would've been out a bucket, and they wouldn't have seen any damage. It was a complete non-issue for, quite literally, every except you up to this point.

FFS, not everything is a learning moment, and we don't have to be the ethics police on everyone about everything all the time. Take the tongue in cheek comment for face value and move along.

 

[2kwik4u]

what's the tailgate "flap"?

When you lower the tailgate, it moves in a VERY large arc. This leads to an opening between the bed and the tailgate. That opening is covered with a flap that "self deploys" when you open it.

You can see it here the second time he opens the tailgate.

 

[RivnSoon]

Let me emphasize on the tailgate top trim piece- I'm on my freaking fourth one! No matter now careful I am loading unloading stuff, it rips out! The new and improved version from Rivian is rubbery, as in it catches on stuff even more!

 

[TTedP]

When you lower the tailgate, it moves in a VERY large arc. This leads to an opening between the bed and the tailgate. That opening is covered with a flap that "self deploys" when you open it.

You can see it here the second time he opens the tailgate.

I traded my T for an S and forgot about that. Thought you meant the tailgate cap.

I miss my T, might have to go back to that on a Gen 3/4. - but I will say, with the seats and everything flat in the S, I have gotten some pretty big items back there.

 

[2kwik4u]

Let me emphasize on the tailgate top trim piece- I'm on my freaking fourth one! No matter now careful I am loading unloading stuff, it rips out! The new and improved version from Rivian is rubbery, as in it catches on stuff even more!

I had the rear "soft close" strut on my tailgate fail a few weeks ago. In the process, the 14yr old pushed the button and the tailgate slammed down on a chair that was nearby we were about to move.

Painteless dent repair guy came out and didn't want to mess with it. He told me those top plastic pieces are "one time use" items. As in, he would have to break it to get it to come off, and a new one would have to be sourced. Surely, that isn't the case.....is it?

 

[Zoidz]

Boy, I bet you're a real peach to be around at parties, eh?

I lost a plastic bucket that was in the top of an open tote of "beach crap" that I had in the bed. Spent 5 minutes turning around and 10minutes playing frogger to keep someone from hitting it. If they had, I likely would've been out a bucket, and they wouldn't have seen any damage. It was a complete non-issue for, quite literally, every except you up to this point.

FFS, not everything is a learning moment, and we don't have to be the ethics police on everyone about everything all the time. Take the tongue in cheek comment for face value and move along.

FFS, two of my vehicles have been damaged and a friend who was seriously injured because of people like you. Don't like being called out - tough shit.

 

[2kwik4u]

I traded my T for an S and forgot about that. Thought you meant the tailgate cover.

I miss my T, might have to go back to that on a Gen 3/4. - but I will say, with the seats and everything flat in the S, I have gotten some pretty big items back there.

I've had an S as a loaner a few times, and came from a Q7 and a Yukon in past vehicles. Totally get the space of an SUV. I will admit though, I think I would miss the gear tunnel.

Oldest and I go snowboarding a lot. The Gear tunnel makes a PERFECT place to put our boots and boards. We took the loanerR1S once, and it was far less convenient to throw the stuff in the hatch there. Still worked just fine, just the gear tunnel was super easy/nice.

Between those kind of edge use cases and the ride on the R1T's being a little better, I'm not sure I would go to an S. They do park easier, and IMO look a little nicer though!

 

[2kwik4u]

FFS, two of my vehicles have been damaged and a friend who was seriously injured because of people like you. Don't like being called out - tough shit.

People like me that let a bucket fly out? Give me a break. You think because I made an off hand comment about watching something like that happen that I also don't strap stuff down that could actually be a hazard.

Call me out all you want, you're making wild safety assumptions over a sarcastic comment.

 

[2kwik4u]

Thanks buddy. Sometimes I just need to vent to a (mostly) sympathetic crowd.

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