I've been driving my rivian truck for a little over a year now and we have over 10
000 miles on the odometer and I have not babied this thing in any way shape or
form we've towed over 11 000 pounds with it we've hauled around a bunch of mulch
shipped a truckload of Jerry rig knives to Linus you know did some Farm stuff filled
it up with horse poop among hundreds of other trips and projects and I have some thoughts
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my mom always said if I can't say anything nice then I shouldn't say anything at all
and normally that's fantastic advice but today I'm still gonna go ahead
and say those mean things but I am going to preface it by disclosing that this is
the most fun the most powerful and the most capable truck I have ever driven
and that is the definite truth but it does some super weird stuff and I'll
explain more as we drive up the mountain maintenance wise over the course of the
last year we have had some things go wrong the display for the compressor
went out super minor issue but that had to be replaced foreign
and then one of my shocks was getting jittery so I took the
truck in to get that replaced under warranty
the truck bed tonneau cover is still very hardcore broken there's no fix for that yet and that
plastic piece for the top of the tailgate came off when I was unloading one of our new off-road
wheelchair prototypes but that was mostly my fault which is pretty surprising since this truck
is number 1 600 ever made and I was expecting there to be quite a few more bring it to the shop
moments I did the math and my truck including all the manufacturing for the battery pack and Mining
and charging off of fossil fuel grid here in Utah my truck will become cleaner than a gas-powered
truck only after it drives 30 000 miles charging from solar on my house we become green a bit
sooner after about 25 000. so we're still a little less than halfway to having a clean green vehicle
or a vehicle that produces less carbon than its gas powered counterparts and at this specific
point in time with only 10 000 miles on it my truck is still worse for the environment than say
a gas powered F-150 but that will change for me around 25 000. I purposefully did not get a wrap
on this truck so I could see how the paint would hold up over time and besides one rock chip on the
hood near the front that probably happened while I was driving on the freeway there's only one other
chip that's probably from the factory automotive paint sticking around a corner is a fairly
difficult thing to accomplish but the one small chip is nothing to lose sleep over made it to the
top quite a bit windier up here than I anticipated but now that we have the pleasantries out of the
way let's get into the three things that I hate about my rivian starting with thing number one
whenever it rains or snows inevitably water somehow gets inside of my driver's
side door I'm not sure how but you can hear it sloshing around in there see if you can listen
I talked to rivian about the water Ingress and they said there were vents in there to help drain
the water and that they would install some bigger ones to help the liquid come out which they did
but it's still happening so we look underneath the paneling it looks like there is a drain
with a rubber stopper in it you can kind of see the water coming out of that hole and there's
another one on this side also plugged up which is super weird part of the reason might be because
EVS are so much quieter I can hear the going on to the vehicle so much better and to be fair the
problem isn't that water is getting inside the door if you take a look at your current vehicle
pretty much every car door should have a drain of some kind to prevent this same issue water
getting into car doors is extremely normal the abnormal part is that the rivian door
isn't letting the water out for example if we take a look inside a Chevy Silverado we can
see a small hole in the door to let the water drain out same thing goes for a Toyota Corolla
every auto manufacturer is going to have one of these holes somewhere it's weird that the
drains are plugged up and maybe there's other vents somewhere else I don't know about all
I know is that the door is holding water and it probably shouldn't water getting into the
door is a pretty big deal and thing number two is also an extremely big deal the r1t is an electric
truck and I assumed that an electric truck would just be able to do truck things I use it a lot
to haul dirt and gravel and things around for our little farm and we've done quite a lot of hauling
the Ruby has a Nifty little bed extending flap feature that eliminates the hinge between the
bed and the tailgate which is absolutely awesome for hauling drywall or Lumber which
I've also done a lot of but when hauling loose soil inevitably the dirt gets directed straight
down into the large hinge opening right up into the sealed undercarriage of the truck
never to be seen again it's uncanny how well the dirt just shoots right on down in there
[Music] we take a little camera to scope out the internals we can see there are probably a solid
two or three shovel fulls of dirt horse poop and mulch down in there that I have no access to and
now I'm forever hauling around that handful of rocks and it happens on both sides of the tailgate
and not to mention down there is where the battery and high voltage components are quick pause here
for just one second it wasn't until I was editing this video and looking at the footage up close and
personal that I realized there is a plant growing in the undercarriage of my truck I never thought
I would have a literal organism hitchhiking taking a ride in the fertile undercarriage
of my vehicle look at it it's all green and growing over there through the soil that has been
accumulating over the past year of driving the truck it is a very strange problem to have okay
back to the video I paid thousands of dollars extra for the reinforced under body protection
you know the off-road package to protect me from rocks on the underside but here rocks are just
coming in willy-nilly from the top side just like the exhaust port on the Death Star it's a rather
large design issue and will probably become an even bigger issue in the future inside the spare
wheel compartment we get a sedimentary history of all the different dirty things I've put in
the bed and the wheel compartment is visibly moist humidity and metal don't always go well together
so I'll definitely have to keep an eye on this compartment as well I could probably disassemble
the undercarriage to let all those rocks out but I mean that's kind of annoying and I don't even know
if it would work so my truck collecting rocks is the second thing that I hate most about my rivian
thing one and thing two are pretty crazy and thing three gets even crazier but first we snack huge
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the third thing that I hate about my rivian hate is kind of a strong word dislike the third thing
I dislike about my rivian isn't as catastrophic as the first two but it's still pretty crazy join me
inside I use my truck like a work truck so there's a lot of tools inside and one time I took my tape
measure and set it down on this little ledge this ledge is where cell phones go to be recharged and
something very strange happened underneath the charger are a bunch of copper coils spread out so
no matter where I put my phone down it'll start charging it's pretty cool however
the long winding coil of my tape measure is tricking the wireless charger into thinking
it's a phone and my truck is trying to charge up my tape measure with electricity [Music]
literally shocking my tape measure over and over again it's not enough electricity that
a human can feel it but it's still pretty crazy that my electric truck is electrocuting my tape
measure I never thought my truck would get in a fight with my tools like I said issue
number three isn't quite as big of a deal as the other two but it's still pretty crazy I
guess the question is do those issues affect my decision if I could go back in time would
I still buy this truck and the answer is yes absolutely the speed the utility and
the power of this truck is better than anything else on the road right now the
F-150 Lightning does come very close but I'm also not a rivian fanboy if something comes out
that is substantially better than this I would have no problem switching but I also don't see
that happening in the very near future let me know what you think are these issues something
that would stop you from buying a truck I'm curious to see what are the deal breakers
for other people and as always thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around