Overcoming Obstacles: My Rivian's CGM Failure and Pothole Mishap

[Vincent]

I didn't do much of a writeup on this but my truck's Central Gateway Module (CGM) began to, and then failed while I was driving cross country earlier this month. This first showed up as intermittent fast charging failures, and it grew to be a total failure to charge.

There's too many early owner posts talking about component failures, and I didn't see any need to add to it. Rivian Service was amazing in helping me stay on the road, so I want to make sure that's the highlight!

One truck update, I hit a pothole on the way home from a rather sendy weekend in the dirt. I was able to use a friend's winch to straighten it a little, and then we used wrenches to adjust it outwards so the truck would stop going into Turtle mode due to the really bad alignment. It was just enough for me to be safe to drive home in the right lane at 60mph.

Kinda funny that an entire weekend of rally and drift mode shenanigans didn't do any harm, but one little pot hole did me in. Ah well. It's all been a great adventure so far.