Yes. Delivery location and serviceability. I’ve been waiting over 2 years with a very basic R1T config. Never been offered access to the R1 shop. There are many others in the same situation.
‘Thousands’ of R1T reservation holders will get their trucks within months
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Point taken. I’m in a metropolitan area with a service center 20 minutes away. They don’t want to sell vehicles they’re unable to effectively service. In a similar vein Tesla restricted early Model 3 deliveries to California until they worked the bugs out.
It sucks that people reserving later get theirs sooner but I guess the best thing you can hope for is that Rivian continues to build and sell/deliver lots of vehicles so they can work out the issues and afford to build out the service network and deliver - and service - yours.
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R1Ts only.
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Stock press release and weak at that: We are making 50K vehicles in 12 months (conference call when stock sank).
Let's do a huge press release saying THOUSANDS will get their trucks within SIX MONTHS.
O.K., take 50K, which we promised Wall Street, divided by six months, 25K trucks delivered, yeah, that's thousands, run with it, they will think we are upping production, plus the fake 60K leak.
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Going down to Steel Street in Denver and will take photos of fit and finish and paint and post them here within the next three weeks. Will show you how to look at a vehicle. If poor, I am bagging, not paying $80K plus for an SUV where manufacturing, customer service, and after-purchase service visits are so high and numerous while the stock price is at all-time low and senior executives are constantly leaving.
No, I am not shorting the stock fanboys; I sold the 100 shares I purchased the day they raised the price on my existing reservation of two years. Believe it was in the low 50s; I lost about a grand but sent a good message to poor CEO who stiffed early adopters.
Also, workers at the plant rate working for Rivian are a mess currently, saying over and over that top management is only worried about trucks out the door and will not stop the line for anything, letting service centers handle it. Breaks are few, putting in 12-hour shifts. Then they give you Uber credits to get home from a service center?
Be careful with your money, especially when putting $20-$40 grand down and paying these high-interest rates on a company that may not honor their warranty in 18 months. Interest rates are not decreasing, and cash institutional investors will be hard to come by!
Let's do a huge press release saying THOUSANDS will get their trucks within SIX MONTHS.
O.K., take 50K, which we promised Wall Street, divided by six months, 25K trucks delivered, yeah, that's thousands, run with it, they will think we are upping production, plus the fake 60K leak.
Going down to Steel Street in Denver and will take photos of fit and finish and paint and post them here within the next three weeks. Will show you how to look at a vehicle. If poor, I am bagging, not paying $80K plus for an SUV where manufacturing, customer service, and after-purchase service visits are so high and numerous while the stock price is at all-time low and senior executives are constantly leaving.
No, I am not shorting the stock fanboys; I sold the 100 shares I purchased the day they raised the price on my existing reservation of two years. Believe it was in the low 50s; I lost about a grand but sent a good message to poor CEO who stiffed early adopters.
Also, workers at the plant rate working for Rivian are a mess currently, saying over and over that top management is only worried about trucks out the door and will not stop the line for anything, letting service centers handle it. Breaks are few, putting in 12-hour shifts. Then they give you Uber credits to get home from a service center?
Be careful with your money, especially when putting $20-$40 grand down and paying these high-interest rates on a company that may not honor their warranty in 18 months. Interest rates are not decreasing, and cash institutional investors will be hard to come by!
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I think you're right. As I'd mentioned previously, this has been addressed to some extent (in addition to regional limitations): Rivian Invites 'Thousands' To Configure EVs for Delivery, Though Many Still Waiting Years
To note: when my configuration options came up, I could literally only choose quad motor max pack. Everything else was greyed out. I also couldn't add the underbody shield. And there might have been other things that were not within that configuration that might've been before that I just wouldn't have known about...
I think its important to remember that Rivian is a private company and welcome to make decisions that they feel are in their best interest. Those decisions may feel unfair, but I think that their initial price point is less sustainable than ticking off a few early adopters that have no real alternative. Ford Lightning is disappointing / production issues, Cybertruck doesnt exist and other trucks are just not on the market yet. It seems that the vast majority of actual Rivian owners (customers) are thrilled with the product. I do with they would open the "shop" to more reservation holders, and honor the line que but i'd rather them continue to function and produce what are clearly awesome trucks. I only wish I had a second butt so I could get a R1T and R1S and drive them at the same time. I had one early reservation 11/2021 and one later 7/2022 and the 2nd produced (from the ) and I expect delivery in 2-6 weeks. I'm ok with the higher price, because i believe in the product. (R1T, 22", Quad, Limestone, Large pack replacing a Ram 2500Limited)
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For me the underbody sheild and spare tire with the 20in wheels were in the 3k+ "adventure package" ....remove that "adventure pack" and you only have option for the street wheels. Quad and large pack only were only ones "choosable" along with all colors and interior options. Then gear was only manual tonneau and charger.
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Private? Maybe you have heard of the IPO and the stock price (above)?
Believe and recommend a product once you have owned it for five years. Not read one-day reviews on loaners to reviewers that never make a payment or take it in for service.
We all believe in the product when we buy it. That is just basic consumer behavior. But there is a ton of service center visits listed on every Rivian Board, and for most of those visits, people have to return again and are not given loaner Rivians. Uber Vouchers or an enterprise rental, not at this price point?
People don't like to admit $80K plus errors in a purchase, another consumer behavior; be careful.
Nobody is buying the truck for off-road use; there isn't even a winch, brush, or bull guard available, and as a work truck with a rear cover with poor design (and no solution in months), that is weak when the CEO is an engineer.
But it is your money and my money; spend it how we see fit. I am on the fence a leaning toward canceling; I do not go back to the dealer with a new car or not see it until I give them a check.
Will be a the Denver location and look over fit and finish in the next month and make my call on that, will post photos!
Would you do that with a house, buy it unseen, and they won't let you look until they have a payment?
Give it a few years before you call it awesome; they are not there yet, maybe; we will see.
The competition will be super heavy next year and the whole auto industry is hurting with interest rates and inflation.
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A note on the shop access. I got my invite to configure about a week ago, I plan to but haven't configured yet for various reasons. As a result I have gotten 3 emails since, one reminding me of my invite and that it will lock my prices that is subject to change....next was a survey asking about the invite expierence and if I have configured or not/why. The third I received today telling me to configure and save for access to the shop. Seems there may be some metric that implies shop access even before configuring..dunno. I assume the same as others mentioned, perhaps location and serviceability. In addition i can only pick options they are currently building
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I think it's all about configuration and location. I ordered in 2021 so I'm on the old pricing and have a truck waiting for me at the SC now. They've had to streamline what they're building and if it's not your configuration you wait.
Adventure, glacier white, large pack, 21" street, black interior.
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If you're willing to accept some changes, I wouldn't be surprised if you spoke to your Guide they could find you a truck at the old prices now.
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