Seatbelt Recall (Affects 198 Rivians) : NHTSA Campaign Number 22V641000

[Christopher]

Not many affected trucks, but looks like it could be anybody that was built between January and August. Rivian will be mailing out more information on October 14th.

NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V641000

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2022/RIVIAN/R1T#recalls

The potentially affected vehicle production period began on January 28, 2022, when Rivian Automotive, LLC (“Rivian”) started to build vehicles with the suspect seat belt assembly anchorage installations and ended on August 8, 2022, when Rivian stopped building with the suspect seat belt assembly anchorage installations. Rivian’s team reviewed manufacturing process records to determine the population of affected vehicles. The Rivian process is capable of tracing the suspect assembly installation to the suspect vehicles. Similar vehicles not included in this recall received properly installed seat belt assembly anchorages.

The total affected vehicles for this model is 198.

Rivian has determined that on certain R1T and R1S vehicles, the seat belt height adjuster bolt for the front driver and/or passenger seat may have been cross threaded during the vehicle manufacturing process. This condition may decrease the strength of the bolt joint causing inadequate attachment of the front seat belts during loading.

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[R1Tom]

I am actually really curious how they can identify 198 vehicles made over a 6 month period? How does that work?

 

[Christopher]

I am actually really curious how they can identify 198 vehicles made over a 6 month period? How does that work?

Yeah I find it amazing that they have the capability of tracing that especially since it's a large span of time and not just a single run of production. Maybe they traced it down to a single employee that doesn't know how to screw in a bolt.

 

[Craigins]

Yeah I find it amazing that they have the capability of tracing that especially since it's a large span of time and not just a single run of production. Maybe they traced it down to a single employee that doesn't know how to screw in a bolt.

Always when that one guy shows up hung over, or still drunk, on monday.

 

[crashmtb]

I am actually really curious how they can identify 198 vehicles made over a 6 month period? How does that work?

Assembly tools in factories such as rivian’s generally will log torque etc on every fastener they’re used on.

 

[atebit]

Maybe that “single employee” on the Control Arm line did some overtime on the Seat Belt line?

 

[astonius]

No list of affected VINs?

 

[R1Tom]

Assembly tools in factories such as rivian’s generally will log torque etc on every fastener they’re used on.

I thought this too, but then why no real time review of said log with a real time flag that says "immediate fail...must correct"?

 

[crashmtb]

I thought this too, but then why no real time review of said log with a real time flag that says "immediate fail...must correct"?

Because you can crossthread a fastener to the correct torque.

they probably had to do some backtracking to figure out which sequence of vehicles had the fubar’d fasteners

 

[staples]

Easy.. Don't get into an accident for another month... Don't drive it like you stole it... Don't use the gobs of torque and acceleration until you know your seatbelt will hold...

This is going to be tough.

 

[jerseyff]

I BET this is why my front passenger belt would not adjust. I opened a ticket and it went to the ATL SC in July and came back with the height adjustment working correctly.

 

[PracticalRivian]

There's cross threaded bolts all over the truck. I've had the front underbody cover off and the front trunk liner out and there were multiple cross threaded bolts on both. Evidently there's some poorly trained people up at the factory.

 

[krockett]

Righty loosey

 

[Batman]

I just clicked this post to look at that sexy Ocean Coast interior..............

 

[AltaTruck]

I did a check on my underbelly pan bolts and found two that were stripped of threads.

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