myboodai
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Speaking as a Rivian shareholder, the last thing I want Rivian to do is pull resources away from trying to get their R1 vehicles ramped up, a critical task for the future of their company, and redesigning elements of the R1T (power cover - which impacts me directly) to go chase down some random R1T that someone decided to ship to Kuwait knowing that they were basically on their own.
Even if Rivian sent a delegation to Kuwait to fix this dudes truck - what happens in a few weeks or months when it inevitably needs another service for something? They are going to keep diverting engineering, equipment, and, and bandwidth away from their already stretched thin resources in North America to placate someone who made a bonehead decision and doesn't want to own up to it?
No thank you.
No ill will towards the OP. I genuinely hope that Rivian helps him remotely and gets him to a point where the R1T is operational. If I were him, I would enjoy it for week - then put it on a cargo container back to the US to be sold while he can still get good resale value.
Thats all true thanks for clarifying on my behalf, well saidYou make the assumption that all Rivian R1T's are going to have an issue that requires an on site Tech. I simply don't believe this at all. yes they have recalls like re-torqueing bolts which can be done by a non-Rivian tech. But in general you hear about a lot of issues on these forums but that is not all Rivian owners. To have a level of expectation that you spend 100K on a truck that it will last for a period of time with manageable issues is not outside of reason. Also to have the expectation that Rivian would have the ability to remote diagnose the truck is also not outside of reason. To tell the OP basically that he is an idiot for doing what he did and that he should cut his losses is probably not the best look or advice. If the OP has the money to not only purchase a Rivian, ship it to the other side of the world, willing to pay for a tech to come to him to repair the Truck then again I don't believe he is unreasonable for doing what he did. Kuwait is a beautiful place and if I was a Rivian tech I would already have taken him up on his offer and be on a plane to fix his truck.
Also I do find it odd that you are pressing so hard for him to ship it back as if Rivian's are not allowed outside of the US... Also I get the impression that OP is not worried about losing money on this deal. I don't believe it is a driving factor for him
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