Knocking Noise From Right/Rear of my Rivian Cabin

Rivian Blue · 2025-04-01T08:59:34+00:00

Ever since I got my R1S, I've noticed that the battery range estimation hasn't been the best. Driving a Tesla for the last 3 years, it never had this kind of issue. During my last trip, the driver display shows 255mi remaining. My total trip (including 2 destinations) is 160mi so I believed I should be able to make it easily with a nice cushion. But the center display showed that I would arrive at first destination with 4mi remaining, and run out before the second destination! I knew this was false so I made the drive anyway, and arrived at second destination with 50mi remaining. If I understand correctly, the driver display range is simply the total rated range multiplied by SOC. That makes sense here, since my vehicle is rated for 370mi, 255mi is 68.9%. Coming from Tesla, I expect the number shown in the center display should account for factors like elevation, wind, traffic speed, etc. It's sad that my own mental estimation is better than Rivian's.

Vincent

Active Wheeler

Jan 10, 2025

Anyone else have a knocking noise from the right or left rear of cabin? I took it to the service center and while the tech heard it on our drive, he was unable to make it re-appear after he "moved some things around". Translation: Didn't do much to address it.

I'm really bothered by the fact that the service centers don't have harsh enough rosds to test these vehicles on. I live on a dirt road. This noise is new and not only loud & annoying, but worrisome. Service rep said, the truck needs to break in. Ha! It's breaking all right.

I'm pretty close to disassembling the rear interior myself. A 2.5 hour drive to the service center with a crappy Enterprise loaner, just have have them give me the runaround is not fun prospect.

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