Kaiju
Well-Known Member
Comparing the suspension with more typical on-pavement vehicles is probably a bit of a disservice. It's not necessarily a build quality problem but an engineering compromise. Rivian designers chose a harsher duty cycle that limited their ability to tune it for on-road cloudiness.
From talking with the techs I've dealt with, Rivians have more play by spec in various suspension parts to make them hold up better for off-road abuse and that's what makes them rattly and clunky. The absence of the delicate fine adjustment is a consequence of the suspension just...not being delicate. Apparently they expect the ride quality to degrade much slower than a typical truck, but some of it was sacrificed at the outset. It also means that whenever they say the noise is 'normal' they apparently aren't bullshitting and it's just at odds with people's expectations for luxury vehicles in a similar price range.
How do land rovers or G wagons compare? It seems a bit unfair to compare to Jeeps.
Also, the laws of tolerances do mean that there will be some subset of the population that gets parts that so happen to have the worst combination of the spec limits, someone else gets the best and most people fall in between. That means that yeah, someone's Rivian sounds like a tool chest falling down the stairs, someone else's is an absolute dream and it's not just subjective pickiness.
From talking with the techs I've dealt with, Rivians have more play by spec in various suspension parts to make them hold up better for off-road abuse and that's what makes them rattly and clunky. The absence of the delicate fine adjustment is a consequence of the suspension just...not being delicate. Apparently they expect the ride quality to degrade much slower than a typical truck, but some of it was sacrificed at the outset. It also means that whenever they say the noise is 'normal' they apparently aren't bullshitting and it's just at odds with people's expectations for luxury vehicles in a similar price range.
How do land rovers or G wagons compare? It seems a bit unfair to compare to Jeeps.
Also, the laws of tolerances do mean that there will be some subset of the population that gets parts that so happen to have the worst combination of the spec limits, someone else gets the best and most people fall in between. That means that yeah, someone's Rivian sounds like a tool chest falling down the stairs, someone else's is an absolute dream and it's not just subjective pickiness.
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