It’s all compromises. Take your Range Rover off-roading at speed or in super technical terrain and the differences become apparent quickly. You need a 160k defender before you get to some type of suspension parity.
I agree with the quad vs tri gen 2 R1s. We had a tri that they bought back because it was a turd, the quad steers much better particularly with beefier tires.
I have them on our dual motor gen 1 r1t. 1.98 seems to be what we’re averaging over 500 miles mixed city and highway. It has been warm in Denver but they handle the snow well. Quieter than the stock Pirelli, definitely heavier steering and less sporty but IMO well worth the trade off.
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It’s fine. Your tires aren’t going to appreciably mind. Your highway miles are already done in low usually and your front wheel drive dominant car is going to hurt your tires way more than city driving in low.
No, no issue I don’t think aside from nobody warning me about this despite delivering the car in 20 degree weather. I can’t really fault them for not knowing this. Apparently it’s very common in the high performance car world but I come from not there.
this is my fault for not realizing how different the tires are from the standard 22” sports to the super sports that my quad came with.
The noise I am hearing is the sidewall snapping back into line due to the Ackermann effect. It’s cold here in Denver.
Carvana and others like it will resell your Rivian, Rivian will only put it to auction to other resellers. When you cut out the middle man you can afford to offer more. There are lots of reasons to be annoyed with the company but imo this is not one.