For whatever it's worth...
The dealership ended up trading me out of that Gladiator and into a Toyota truck they had on the lot. I didn't keep the Toyota long and went back to Ram and Jeep trucks not long afterward.
But, they did eventually fix that oil leak and sold the Gladiator to another...
I almost forgot!!
Hello August! Here's your monthly reminder that there hasn't been, isn't now, and never will be a factory V8 in the Jeep Gladiator!
Have a great day!
I am an OG. Due to reasons that were never explained to me, I had to make a new account. The moderators on this forum in the early days were very unfair with members and folks got banned without cause much of the time. It was kind of sad.
Anyway, I drove the Ford 2.3 EcoBoost for the first...
I too have been on this forum since the beginning. In fact, I was an early contributor that did a LOT of testing and informative videos on the platform. Unfortunately I have seen a lot more bad than good with EcoDiesel regardless of generation. Let's ask ourselves... why did they pull the...
Frosty the Snowman will survive summer vacation on the shores of Hell before I'd ever own an EcoDiesel beyond powertrain warranty.
I've had two, one being a Gladiator, and both were trash with oil leaks and other issues. The Gladiator actually randomly caught fire before it reached 20,000...
Yep ^^^ my experience has been that when people have issues it's because they didn't follow instructions. I've used mine for 8 years now on 5 different vehicles and it's never given me problems. I love it on my '25 Rubicon because I was able to map the rear locker to a steering wheel button...
I wonder who it is at Jeep that gets to sit around and dream up these useless and ridiculously stupid features? The "auto park" one that automatically shifts to park if the door is open while moving slowly made me want to throw a brick through the windshield years ago...I had to kill that one...
I guess I’m the odd man out. I’ve had my Tazer since 2018. I used it on one of the first JLs to market, then on a DT (5th Gen Ram), then a JT gas, then JT diesel, now on my new ’25 Jeep as well. All of the functions I use (winch mode, rear locker mapped to the “up” button, speedo recal, fog...
My wife is 5'3" and wears a size 6 shoe. Her one complaint since 2018 (which I still get to hear repeatedly to this day) is that JL/JT are "too narrow" inside and "not comfortable".
I have a strong feeling Jeep may solve this with the next gen of these vehicles though...
The problem isn't the length of the seating area, it's the width. The JK was already too narrow. They made JL/JT even narrower for some reason. AND they moved the console upward toward the roof and put the t-case shifter in the worst possible position as somebody already mentioned. So your...
I guess each month we need to remind folks why there never was, and never will be, a factory V8 in a Gladiator. Different vehicle, different use case. Even the brief EcoDiesel option was heavily derated for towing.