Front wheels creaking

[jakef801]

Just sharing. Front wheel(s) started creaking yesterday...high pitched, metal to metal screaching sound. It's fairly loud and quite concerning, especially being 800 miles from home. Happens when just starting to go forward and/or reverse. Added to my 11/18 appointment ticket. I'll try to get a vid clip of it happening and share. Anyone else had this happen?

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[CommodoreAmiga]

Yep. They all seem to eventually do it.

 

[jakef801]

Guess I have a "welcome to the club" thing now...

 

[NY_Rob]

^ drive it hard till it breaks... only way to have Rivian acknowledge and address the issue in a permanent fashion.
Once they spend outrageous $$$$$ replacing thousands of half-shafts and CV-Joints someone at corporate might finally take notice? Look at the tonneau issue.. .they knew from day one the system was no good.. but they went ahead and produced 13K+ vehicles with known bad parts anyway. They are going to pay a huge price for ignoring that issue. The half-shafts/CV-Joint issues is going to cost them gigantic $$$$$ as well by the time they get around to a permanent fix.

 

[Zoidz]

It appears that the issue is with the ball spline half shafts, and apparently are supplied by Korean company Erae AMS that also makes them for Hyundai, Audi, Nissan, Stellantis, GM, Kubota (tractors), Daimler FUSO (trucks) and Canoo, among others.

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