R2 teething/early issues -- new owner needs flatbed 4 hours after delivery

[s4wrxttcs]

I think a lot of people have been deeply scarred by their experience with Tesla, and have trust issues.

I'm not going to do EMDR therapy for my Tesla Delivery Experience.

The checklist will be at the ready for my R2 with Lidar Delivery.

My checklist:

Check Charger Door Alignment
Play Apple Music for 15 minutes and verify that it does not stop.

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[tate16t]

And as for as the charge door, I think it's a miss aesthetically; IMHO if they kept the horizontal line to the fender, it would look better and any minor misalignment would be harder to see.

I said early on that the charge port door looks very awkward. The entire vehicle has straight lines but the port door doesn’t. It wouldn’t keep me from purchasing one, but it just looks awkward.

 

[Davethadog]

What the heck??? They can't align a charge port door? How does that pass QC?

Have you seen aby other r1 ever made? QC on these cars is terrible straight out the gate.

 

[NoICE]

I'm less forgiving of poor quality at this point. Rivian's had 5 years to figure this out. Maybe there is pressure to get vehicles into the hands of customers by the end of QTR 2 as promised to their shareholders, but this annoying crap does nothing but reinforce people's concerns of poor quality and the lousy JD Power survey. My early R1T (Mar'22) has racked up 50+ service tickets and about a dozen trips to service centers. Luckily it's never left me stranded and Rivian has always fixed the problems.
I've been hopeful for the R2. It's a better size for me, fewer moving parts, time for them to engineer in better quality, but I'm letting others be the beta testers for the R2. I do worry for all Rivian owners if stupid R2 errors end up clogging the service centers. Remember when the Model 3 rolled out?

 

[skyguyscott]

... Rivian's had 5 years to figure this out. ... My early R1T (Mar'22) has racked up 50+ service tickets and about a dozen trips to service centers. ... but I'm letting others be the beta testers for the R2.

Don't know about Rivian, but it looks like you were smart enough to figure it out

 

[DuoRivians]

Brings back my R1T ptsd

 

[NinjaWrap]

I'm less forgiving of poor quality at this point. Rivian's had 5 years to figure this out. Maybe there is pressure to get vehicles into the hands of customers by the end of QTR 2 as promised to their shareholders, but this annoying crap does nothing but reinforce people's concerns of poor quality and the lousy JD Power survey. My early R1T (Mar'22) has racked up 50+ service tickets and about a dozen trips to service centers. Luckily it's never left me stranded and Rivian has always fixed the problems.
I've been hopeful for the R2. It's a better size for me, fewer moving parts, time for them to engineer in better quality, but I'm letting others be the beta testers for the R2. I do worry for all Rivian owners if stupid R2 errors end up clogging the service centers. Remember when the Model 3 rolled out?

my early 2018 Model 3 caused me about 10 trips to the service center (2.5 hours away)
my 2019 Model 3 and wife's 2021 Model Y each had once visit in 4 years each.
my Cybertruck has been to service twice in 18 months and currently cannot charge at home due to PCS failure. It happened over a month ago and looking at hopefully mid august to get it fixed.

 

[Dave Cundiff]

Have you seen aby other r1 ever made? QC on these cars is terrible straight out the gate.

Both of our 2023 R1's are well aligned throughout, @Davethadog.

Best wishes!

 

[skyguyscott]

I said early on that the charge port door looks very awkward. The entire vehicle has straight lines but the port door doesn’t. It wouldn’t keep me from purchasing one, but it just looks awkward.

For me, the ridiculously comical headlights did not stop me from purchasing my R1T, but I still think they are ridiculously comical. There is a far better chance that Rivian will revise the R2 charge door and a 2% chance they will give the R1 headlights that are more serious and less "adorable."

 

[mclark2112]

This is why I plan to overlap my i4 with my R2 purchase by a couple months. My R1S dropped a rear drive shaft in my first week of owning it, they had to tow it from South Jersey to Brooklyn back then. Had to make a bit of a stink to get that to be free, but those were early days.

 

[Gen(R3)Xer]

They shoulda put it up front instead.

On the passenger side! Then people could pull into Tesla Superchargers without having to disconnect and reconnect their trailers!!! It also makes it easier to get access to your trunk if you’re grocery shopping. And finally if curbside charging ever becomes a thing the R2 would be ready to go, as we park on the right in the US.

 

[macb00kemdanno]

Then people could pull into Tesla Superchargers without having to disconnect and reconnect their trailers!!!

That would NOT work. At least around here, most Superchargers are at gas stations, restaurants, shopping centers, meaning that they are right next to free flowing traffic in and around the parking lot. If you pull in front-first with a trailer without unhooking; you’re going to be blocking parking lot traffic and pissing off a lot of people. It’s also downright rude.

 

[Jeremy3292]

I would like to point out that while this would piss me off, Tesla had this happen with some of the latest Model Y Juniper as well. Just bricked out the gate, not sure what the resolution was.

 

[Gen(R3)Xer]

That would NOT work. At least around here, most Superchargers are at gas stations, restaurants, shopping centers, meaning that they are right next to free flowing traffic in and around the parking lot. If you pull in front-first with a trailer without unhooking; you’re going to be blocking parking lot traffic and pissing off a lot of people. It’s also downright rude.

Oh yeah, that definitely wouldn’t work. We need more pull-through stalls.

 

[Riviot]

Unfortunately the charge port door is pure ass. I had to take my R2 in for re alignment. I am sure this will be alot of owners complain once they receive the vehicle. Door is ass.

Not a door it's just a flop.

Pure ass.

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