Wind Noise Identification and Fix

Vincent · 2025-01-10T19:33:15+00:00

A friend needed to support his son who would be running a 'very cold' marathon on Sunday while rucking a 30 pound pack. The outside temps will be around 15F-20F the whole time. The location of the race is nowhere close to any L2 chargers, but he's not worried about driving distance to or from the race - it is 50 miles away from his house. He says he will be sitting in his ruck with his laptop and watching his live track+Garmin inReach data for the duration of the race (about 4 hours). He thought about taking his Honda EB2800i gasoline powered generator, if he can use the level 1 EVSE attached to the generator and keep the truck running with full heat + power - without really consuming much of the truck's main battery? He feels it's super dorky to have a gas generator running while attached to a Rivian in the woods, just so he can stay warm, but don't know if it would work ok this way and 'preserve' the main battery so he doesn't need to worry about driving range when we wants to head home. He talked to me about it and I told him the simple answer is NO. I tested this theory the other night when I was plugged into a 5.9kW charger. To maintain the interior amenities (interior and exterior lights, radio, heater, seat heaters), it took almost all of the charge. I charged for 15 minutes, it delivered 1.6kW, and the truck consumed 1.4kW, delivering only 0.2kW to the truck battery. Told him he would be using a laptop at another 200ish watts. The little trickle charger charges at 1.4kW on a good day, 1.2kW is normal for me. You can slow the bleed, but you cant stop it. My advise to him was for him to charge it up to 100% at home, and roll the dice is what I would do.

Morgan

New member

Dec 24, 2024

I just wanted to share a short article about the wind noise I've been hearing in the cabin. I'm not the only one and there are lots of mentions of it here and on other forums with different issues and fixes... this one is mine.

Like many, the bulk of the noise was coming from the triangle area of the passenger side door. Looking externally, it all looked fine, and identical to the other side, and the noise didn't exist the week of delivery.

TLDR; It was the trim pieces around the triangle window, but the window itself is solid and sealed. They will replace the trim piece with better tape, so my fix is temporary but very effective.

Here is the trim piece that was causing the issue for me, I noticed it was ever so slightly unseated from the rubber gaskets, and then when I pulled slightly the whole piece came out...

Even better, you can see there is only one TINY piece of adhesive tape on this piece, which really makes zero sense...

So after reporting the issue to Rivian, and not being able to wait for them to fix it before my trip this week... I put a temporary fix in place, and I can report that it works wonderfully.

I hope this helps others resolve their
issues as well. Note that ANY of the trim pieces on any side could be loose and they will also cause the issue, this is why I also taped down the top part as it was slightly loose as well.

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