Rivian R1S 2023 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin RCA-78-23-005-1 · NHTSA communication 10241960 · issued Aug 9, 2023
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2023
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Rivian is initiating a customer satisfaction campaign for some model year 2023 R1T and R1S vehicles that may have been built with an improperly routed cowl harness. If this harness is improperly routed, there is a potential for this harness to make contact with the windshield wiper mechanism during wiper use. If the harness contacts the windshield wiper mechanism and this condition persists over time, the vehicle may experience a rub-through of the wires in the harness. This potential rub-through condition may result in effects ranging from no function loss (if a redundant circuit is damaged)
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.