Rivian is issuing a rob for airbag-associated complications for the 2d time within the previous few weeks. The EV automaker is notifying affected homeowners of the R1S SUV (2022-23) about potentially tainted aspect-curtain airbags.
The rob says one or extra of the models’ aspect-curtain airbags (left or appropriate aspect) would possibly maybe perchance furthermore no longer had been correctly fastened. A anecdote from the Nationwide Motorway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says the affected models had been manufactured on the firm’s Routine, IL plant between October 28th, 2022 and January 21st, 2023. Rivian began contacting possibilities on March 2nd to schedule an inspection and steady them correctly. In addition as, the firm says this is able to maybe furthermore reimburse any homeowners who already paid for the restore in other places.
Though the most recent rob simplest impacts 30 autos, it’s the 2d time the automaker has issued an airbag-associated rob in lower than a month. A March 1st one used to be mighty broader, affecting over 12,000 R1T pickups and R1S SUVs (2022) over an airbag deployment convey. If this is the case, a dealer’s tainted seatbelt sensors, which prevented the front passenger airbags from deploying, had been the perpetrator. Nonetheless, the extensive majority in that crew won’t likely possess the flaw, as Rivian estimated simplest one percent of the recalled autos had been affected.
Though the recalls won’t likely bother Rivian’s funds critically, it still isn’t a worthy glance for the younger automaker — especially when it currently laid off six percent of its crew for the 2d time in lower than a three hundred and sixty five days.
