Rivian Recall Check: 95% of the 98,828 Vehicles in the Camera Recall Already Had the Fix When It Was Filed — Your Software Version Tells You Now, the VIN Lookup Only From November 9

If a Rivian recall check brought you here because of the rearview camera recall headlines, the most useful detail is in Rivian’s own safety recall report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, filed September 16, 2026: “This software update is installed in over 95% of the impacted vehicles, remedying the potential noncompliance condition. Affected R1 vehicles are 95% updated and 96% of the impacted R2 vehicles are updated.” In other words, for the great majority of owners the recall was already fixed by an over-the-air update before it was announced. By our arithmetic, the remaining share is under 5 percent — at most about 4,940 of the 98,828 vehicles.

The report also splits the total by model, which NHTSA’s short summary does not:

• R1S (2022–2027): 62,259 vehicles, built March 30, 2022 to August 6, 2026.
• R1T (2022–2026): 34,088 vehicles, built August 23, 2021 to July 6, 2026.
• R2 (2027): 2,481 vehicles, built April 23, 2026 to August 10, 2026.

Every vehicle built after August 10, 2026 left the factory with the corrected software. Rivian’s recall number is FSAM-1866; NHTSA’s is 26V597000. Rivian told NHTSA it is “not aware of any customer reports, crashes, injuries, or fatalities related to this condition.”

NHTSA’s VIN lookup is the normal way to check a recall, but for this one it will not help until November 9, 2026: NHTSA’s record says the VINs “will be searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 9, 2026,” and owner letters are expected the same day. Until then an empty VIN result does not mean your vehicle is outside the recall. The faster check is the software version, because the report names the affected versions exactly: “Software versions prior to 2026.23 for R1 and prior to 2026.31.40 for R2.”

• On the vehicle: Rivian says “You can view your vehicle’s current software version by tapping Settings, Vehicle then Updates in the center display.”
• In the app: the same information is under “the Vehicle Software Settings in the About section of the Rivian app.”
• Compare: an R1S or R1T on 2026.23 or later, or an R2 on 2026.31.40 or later, already has the remedy. An earlier version means the update is still due — Rivian “encourages all owners to update their vehicle to the latest available software, if they have not done so already.” No service visit is planned; the report lists “No Dealers.”

What the bug does, according to the report: if stability control is off in certain drive modes and you leave the vehicle and come back, a safety alert asks whether to return to a mode with stability control on. “If the driver places the vehicle in reverse without making a selection, the drive mode change notification may overlap the camera image until the vehicle moves.” Rivian calls it a condition that “requires a very specific set of operations in a specific order,” and the image comes back if you select the camera page on the center display or start moving. Rivian found it in internal testing between July and September 2026 and decided on September 10, 2026 that a violation of the federal rear-visibility standard (FMVSS 111) “cannot be ruled out.”

For any other open recall, Rivian’s support page says owners are notified by mail and can “visit NHTSA.gov/recalls and use your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN).” One recall a software check will not catch: 26V625000, the first R2-only recall, covers 14 2027 R2s whose high-voltage battery fastener “may have been improperly tightened, causing a loss of drive power.” That fix is an inspection and repair; letters and VIN search are scheduled for November 28, 2026 (Rivian number FSAM-1888).

As of October 11, 2026, NHTSA’s recall data for the R1S, R1T, R2 and the EDV delivery van lists 25 Rivian recall campaigns, from 22V319000 (May 10, 2022) to 26V625000 (September 29, 2026). Together they count 277,935 vehicle entries (our arithmetic) — not that many different vehicles, because the same R1S or R1T can be in several campaigns. By year:

• 2022: 3 campaigns, 12,892 entries — the largest a front upper control arm recall (22V744000, 12,212).
• 2023: 5 campaigns, 27,112 entries — including front seat belt retractors (23V109000, 12,716) and the accelerator pedal (23V883000, 7,873).
• 2024: 6 campaigns, 10,011 entries.
• 2025: 6 campaigns, 104,739 entries — EDV van seat belt pretensioners (25V816000, 34,824), turn signals (25V387000, 27,882), Highway Assist software (25V585000, 24,214) and headlights (25V085000, 17,260).
• 2026 so far: 5 campaigns, 123,181 entries — the camera recall, the toe link recall (26V003000, 19,641), turn signals (26V508000, 3,829), seat belt retractor bolts (26V009000, 869) and the 14-vehicle R2 recall.

The camera recall alone is about 36 percent of all Rivian recall entries ever, by our arithmetic, and Rivian says it was already installed in over 95% of the affected vehicles when it was filed. NHTSA’s data shows no new Rivian campaign after September 29, 2026 as of October 11. Rivian’s own support page keeps a list “of recalls initiated since 05/10/2022” — the same starting date as NHTSA’s first campaign.

No payment comes with this recall. NHTSA describes the remedy as an “over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge,” and Rivian’s support page says recall work is done “at no cost to you as part of your New Vehicle Limited Warranty.” The report states only that Rivian “used general reimbursement plan on file” — the standard plan for owners who paid for a remedy before a recall; for a free software update there is normally nothing to reimburse. A federal docket search we ran on October 11, 2026 for Rivian cases mentioning a rearview camera filed since September 1 returned one case, a patent dispute, and no owner lawsuit over this recall. Rivian’s other litigation is on our Rivian lawsuit page.

A genuine letter, due on or before November 9, 2026, will name FSAM-1866 or NHTSA recall 26V597 and tell you the fix is a free software update. It will not ask for a card number, a fee or a call to an unknown number. To confirm anything you receive, call Rivian customer service yourself at 1-888-748-4261, check the software version as described above, or — from November 9 — enter your VIN at NHTSA.gov. If your vehicle already shows 2026.23 or later (R1) or 2026.31.40 or later (R2), the letter is a formality.

Our October 3, 2026 report covered the two September recalls from NHTSA’s summaries. The full Part 573 filing adds what owners actually need: the model split, the software versions that mark the fix, and the fact that more than 95 percent of vehicles were updated before the recall became public. The letters still go out in November, so most owners will receive notice of a problem that, by Rivian’s count, their vehicle no longer has.

On the question people also ask — is Rivian struggling as a company? — the most recent hard numbers are Rivian’s own. On October 2, 2026 it reported that it “produced 19,751 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois and delivered 19,248 vehicles” in the third quarter, results it called “in line with Rivian’s outlook,” and it reaffirmed its 2026 delivery guidance of 65,000 – 70,000. Third-quarter financial results are scheduled for October 29, 2026. A recall that was 95 percent fixed by software before filing says little about the company’s finances either way.