[sevrin]

Ouch, sounds like something broke at the end there? Kinda strange, is there another vehicle near by?

 

[sciencegeek]

Ouch. Usually he's more methodical with his teardowns

 

[EaglesPDX]

The Hells Gate video was better. Some co-workers who have crazy lifted Jeeps are going out to do that next week. They were impressed that the stock Rivian could do it.

 

[ColeAK]

The Hells Gate video was better. Some co-workers who have crazy lifted Jeeps are going out to do that next week. They were impressed that the stock Rivian could do it.

Hells gate is intimidating but really not all that technical. The rocks in Moab are very grippy, like sandpaper. Here is a Kia Sorento doing hells gate

 

[ColeAK]

And a Subaru with CVT and open diffs on hells revenge.

 

[ColeAK]

Bouncing all over the place... Looks like he may have blown an air spring at the end.

 

[sciencegeek]

So this is his teardown vehicle after all, not his (wife's), which is a launch green ... I'm looking forward to his damage analysis.

 

[sciencegeek]

Here's the latest. He beat it up pretty good on that log course. Not sure how informative this is in the end, because of course there's damage to trim etc given how much he smacked it around. The load test at the end is reassuring (except for that window haha).

 

[IRiv1234]

Anyone know if he has the underbody shield on his test truck?