Recall Alert: Rivian R1S and R1T Models

by TTAC Staff

Published: August 26th, 2025

Chevrolet had a large recall this morning, and Rivian has not been outdone.

Rivian is recalling 23 model year 2025 R1S and R1T vehicles because an improperly tightened ground connection in the High Voltage Distribution Box could lead to a loss of drive power. Dealers will inspect and repair the ground strap joint or replace the high-voltage battery pack if needed, at no cost. Owner notification letters are scheduled to be mailed on October 3, 2025. Rivian customer service can be reached at 1-888-748-4261 with recall number FSAM-1723.

Disclosure: This article was partially written by AI and edited by a human staffer.

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JMII on Aug 27, 2025

Like a few other recalls I though modern production lines used torque tools that would alter to improperly tighten bolts and flash some kind of warning to the assembly worker*. Since they know about this problem that tells me this kind of system is used and logged the mistake, yet the vehicles were allowed to continue down the line. Can someone explain how this happens?

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- Forward Air Controller on Aug 27, 2025
  
  It happens because making cars is hard, and not something one should casually choose to get into.
  I know how corporate America is; I wonder what and how many discussions happened around this. But first, I can imagine a relatively low level employee scrubbing through the data, finding this, and being ignored for quite some time because it's inconvenient to the higher ups.
  And THAT'S how these vehicles were allowed to continue down the line, out the door, into the customer's hands, and through the title process to ownership. SOMEBODY was hoping head-in-sand would be a workable answer.
  
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Forward Observer on Aug 27, 2025

Here is the recall report. The vehicles were assembled over a 5-month period. How did it happen? We aren't told. How did they narrow the vehicle population down? We aren't told. The plot thickens. 🙂

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- SCE to AUX on Aug 27, 2025
  
  So the total possible is 23, but they think it really affects 8 cars.
  After finding the one burned connection, maybe they looked back at recorded torque data and found 23 low data points, and 8 of them were at minus 3 sigma or something.
  
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- Forward Observer on Aug 28, 2025
  
  15 of the R1S and 8 of the R1T are being recalled (23 vehicles).
  Estimated percentage with defect = 25% (good catch, I missed that).
  So 6 vehicles with the actual problem, maybe.
  
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