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In Michigan we have moved from the season of ice and snow to the season of road construction, which involves liberally sprinkling the highways with small rocks. You can tell where this is going: rock hits R1T windshield last week, I go to get it filled before the crack spreads, my local auto glass company starts the repair and the crack spreads about 18” right across the driver’s view of the road. My local glass place is not certified to get Rivian glass, neither are my local alternatives. Even if they were they would still have to get the vehicle ADAS systems recalibrated by Rivian. So I call Rivian to get the replacement windshield scheduled. I am given a estimate of $1,800 and date in August, two months out, as the next available. I have a 3,000+ mile trip through the mountains/desert scheduled for late June (it’s an adventure vehicle and I want to do adventure things in it). There is a fair bit of anecdotal evidence that the windshield glass on the R1 is not very robust; I doubt that any of my previous vehicles would have seen this rock chip spread as it did on the R1. Bottom line: be very careful with this fragile windshield, carry a chip repair kit in the vehicle, and if the have the opportunity suggest that Rivian improve the quality of the windshield glass and perhaps have a few in stock at SCs. Really should not be too much to ask in a $100k adventure vehicle.
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