
Originally Posted by
supermodel159
Hope you have a better experience with your Rivian than my friend who has (had) the SUV. It's been a complete nightmare for him to say the least. Firmware updates, warranty repairs, service center runs, battery draining over the course of 3 days, ect. He sold it a few weeks ago and bought a new Sequoia.
No issues like that yet.
The only issue I've come across is one that used to plague Tesla drivers. And it has only happened a couple of times. If you have the Rivian app on your phone, the phone is automatically a key. If you walk away from the car with your phone, the car locks. If you walk towards the car with your phone, it unlocks. Tesla does the same thing, but only if you enable your phone as a key. With my Tesla, I didn't enable the phone as a key. You can still use the app to lock and unlock the car, but you can't drive the car based on the phone.
The issue with this is that if you leave the phone in the car, lock it with the key card, then put the key card in a lockbox, as I do when I surf or go to the gym, the car can detect the phone and it will unlock. Anyone could simply get in the car and drive it away. This has happened to me a couple of times with the Rivian. You can either disable bluetooth, which is annoying because you have to do so every time, or you can disable the feature which automatically locks and unlocks the car. I chose the second option. To be fair, this didn't happen all the time, most of the time I could lock the phone in the car and return to it still being locked, but it did happen occasionally. It's nice that this is fixed, but it is something to be aware of.
I have not had any issues with updates or serious vampire drain. So far, the updates have gone smoothly.
I will try to get a review up on the driving soon. It has absolutely blown me away with the handling and acceleration. I expected it to feel far more like a big, lumbering truck, but it doesn't. Driving for several days at 600 miles a day is a nightmare unless a car is fun the drive. This one was a pleasure.
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