NHTSA Opens Preliminary Evaluation of 115,000 Rivian Cars

Dow Jones05-28

By Christopher Kuo

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is conducting a preliminary evaluation of possible issues with the rear toe links in about 115,000 Rivian vehicles.

The administration's Office of Defects Investigation opened the evaluation of potential rear toe link issues in the R1T and R1S models from 2022 through 2025, according to a May 26 document posted on its web site.

Rear toe links are a suspension component on modern vehicles that connects the rear wheel hub to the chassis.

The office received two vehicle owner questionnaires reporting left rear toe link separation in certain 2023 to 2024 Rivian R1S vehicles. Both questionnaires reported the bolt that secures the toe link fractured while the vehicle was being driven and caused the cars to swerve across multiple lanes of traffic. One incident resulted in a crash.

Both vehicles had been driven for multiple months and several thousand miles without prior issues, the agency said.

The agency will evaluate the sensitivity of the rear toe link joint to road and service conditions, examine the failure evidence, evaluate Rivian's toe link repair procedure and assess the toe link conditions in the cars.

Write to Christopher Kuo at chris.kuo@wsj.com

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