Rivian R1T fender benders can turn into $40K repair bills. Rear corner damage is an Achilles heel for gargantuan estimates.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safetythat repairing the front corner on the aluminum truck cost 10% more than the steelie, while the rear corner cost 26% more on the aluminum truck. In practice, however, it didn't work out like that.on YouTube. Boyette runs a paintless dent repair shop in Jacksonville, Georgia. He said a Rivian owner in North Carolina got in touch when a fender bender resulted in damage below the R1T's driver's side taillight.
Check out the short video above for the superhero job All Out PDR pulled off. Boyette explains the process and why a traditional body shop would come up with a $40,000 quote for a parking lot mishap; the way the R1T's body panels are laid out, a shop needs to dismantle a fair amount of the truck to access the necessary areas.
Having a look around the web, though, this particular area on the Rivian seems to be the R1T's Achilles heel. When anin February of this year, resulting in what looked like very mild damage, the Rivian-certified repair shop gave him a $42,000 estimate.out of scrapped bits of random Teslas — got his R1T rear-ended earlier this year, the shop estimated repairs at more than $37,000.
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