2023 Jeep Gladiator
This year drew an ordinary 110 complaints for a Jeep Gladiator — the model's median is 22. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.7% of them mention ground, against 3.5% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Jeep Gladiator, which began in 2020. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 110 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- ground — 12.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: ground, filling, every time, fender.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Every single time I try to fill my gas tank, at any gas station, the gas pours out and shoots up fast out of the tank fill hole. I have even slowed down filling, and when I hear it getting close coming up the pipe, I let of the pump handle and it will still co…
Every time I fill up with gas it splashes up and over quite a bit. I have tried many different ways to get it to stop splashing. Slowed down the flow, changed positions of the tube. Slowed down the flow to try and not let it splash up towards the end of the fi…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V116000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V263000 FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL Fixed free of charge.
- 23V641000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V199000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V652000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V363000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Gladiator was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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