2021 Jeep Gladiator defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2021 Jeep Gladiator. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Underhood fires
  Preliminary Evaluation PE24024 · opened Sep 6, 2024 · still open

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received 9 Vehicle Owner's Questionnaire (VOQ) reports, 1 Death and Injury report, and multiple field reports alleging incidents of engine compartment fires in model year (MY) 2021-2023 Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles. The majority of the reports describe a fire occurr…

• High pressure fuel pump failure
  Engineering Analysis EA23001 · opened Mar 17, 2023 · still open · led to recall 24V957

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened PE21-021 on October 14, 2021, to investigate incidents alleging a stall/loss of motive power as a result of high-pressure fuel pump failures in certain model year (MY) 2019-2020 Ram 2500, 3500, 4500, and 5500 heavy duty trucks equipped with 6.7L Cummins turbodiesel engin…