‘23 Gladiator - Blower fan?

[Russ2023]

Sorry, but I’ve exhausted all my patience with the search function and my dealer only has one service advisor in today. Would appreciate thoughts and advice. In the past few days I’ve noticed that a fan noise will begin unexpectedly. And it’s freaking loud. The first time it came on yesterday we were trying to place an order at Panera drive through and the order taker guy and I literally couldn’t hear each other so I had to kill the engine. When I did I could hear a fan like noise sounding like it was powering down. The air conditioner was on but that’s the norm and the truck has ~20k miles. My brain is stuck on the idea it’s the loudest freaking fan ever made. Thoughts and advice appreciated.

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[Commodus]

Sorry, but I’ve exhausted all my patience with the search function and my dealer only has one service advisor in today. Would appreciate thoughts and advice. In the past few days I’ve noticed that a fan noise will begin unexpectedly. And it’s freaking loud. The first time it came on yesterday we were trying to place an order at Panera drive through and the order taker guy and I literally couldn’t hear each other so I had to kill the engine. When I did I could hear a fan like noise sounding like it was powering down. The air conditioner was on but that’s the norm and the truck has ~20k miles. My brain is stuck on the idea it’s the loudest freaking fan ever made. Thoughts and advice appreciated.

You sure it’s not your radiator cooling fan? Check your temperature gauge for possible overheating

 

[Gvsukids]

Sorry, but I’ve exhausted all my patience with the search function and my dealer only has one service advisor in today.

Try Google.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/loud-cooling-fan.5433/page-1

What's the issue with one advisor? Have the tech look at it.

 

[ChrisNLA]

Sorry, but I’ve exhausted all my patience with the search function and my dealer only has one service advisor in today. Would appreciate thoughts and advice. In the past few days I’ve noticed that a fan noise will begin unexpectedly. And it’s freaking loud. The first time it came on yesterday we were trying to place an order at Panera drive through and the order taker guy and I literally couldn’t hear each other so I had to kill the engine. When I did I could hear a fan like noise sounding like it was powering down. The air conditioner was on but that’s the norm and the truck has ~20k miles. My brain is stuck on the idea it’s the loudest freaking fan ever made. Thoughts and advice appreciated.

The radiator fans on these are loud.

When the JL first came out, it was a running joke when off roading that they sounded like it was gonna take off like a plane. Drivers had a hard time hearing spotters, etc.

If your truck is running at normal temps, the fan is probably it's doing its normal loud ass thing.

I don't know this to be factual but its likely the fan is a PWM style fan (pulse width modulation) like most new vehicles and so the fan can be commanded to run any speed between off and F16 leaving the deck speed. So sometimes its running and you may not notice, and other times the truck is going hey man its getting WARM and it commands full tilt boogey and then you and the McDonalds guy are yelling at each other over it.

 

[Russ2023]

You sure it’s not your radiator cooling fan? Check your temperature gauge for possible overheating

Yea, radiator fan is the first thing that popped in my head because of having lived through one of those potentially catastrophic failures but my temp gauge indicated that the temperature was well within proper range. Thanks.

 

[Russ2023]

Try Google.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/loud-cooling-fan.5433/page-1

What's the issue with one advisor? Have the tech look at it.

Evidently they need to hire a few because the lady just said one was on vacation and another called in sick leaving only one advisor in the office. To have anyone look at it today would have necessitated a 30 mile drive with the likelihood I would have had to wait forever and when I could eventually talk with the advisor or a technician I’d find that he’s just a trainee and his first day on the job.

 

[Russ2023]

The radiator fans on these are loud.

When the JL first came out, it was a running joke when off roading that they sounded like it was gonna take off like a plane. Drivers had a hard time hearing spotters, etc.

If your truck is running at normal temps, the fan is probably it's doing its normal loud ass thing.

I don't know this to be factual but its likely the fan is a PWM style fan (pulse width modulation) like most new vehicles and so the fan can be commanded to run any speed between off and F16 leaving the deck speed. So sometimes its running and you may not notice, and other times the truck is going hey man its getting WARM and it commands full tilt boogey and then you and the McDonalds guy are yelling at each other over it.

thanks for the info. The idea of a fan operating this loudly without it being due to some sort of pending failure is a new one for me.

 

[Russ2023]

Try Google.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/loud-cooling-fan.5433/page-1

What's the issue with one advisor? Have the tech look at it.

Jeezus, this is normal?!? lol. I forgot, it’s a Jeep.

 

[Hootbro]

Not saying it is not "normal" but I cannot recall one time the engine radiator cooling fan spooling up to the point it was audibly drowning out any conversations or radio audio.

 

[joedan916]

Sorry, but I’ve exhausted all my patience with the search function and my dealer only has one service advisor in today. Would appreciate thoughts and advice. In the past few days I’ve noticed that a fan noise will begin unexpectedly. And it’s freaking loud. The first time it came on yesterday we were trying to place an order at Panera drive through and the order taker guy and I literally couldn’t hear each other so I had to kill the engine. When I did I could hear a fan like noise sounding like it was powering down. The air conditioner was on but that’s the norm and the truck has ~20k miles. My brain is stuck on the idea it’s the loudest freaking fan ever made. Thoughts and advice appreciated.

recently had the same issue on my 23 jeep glad willy's with 18k on it.. brought it into service, and warranty replaced mine, fan blower motor that is

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