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It was posted everywhere the diesel would tow 6500 pounds, however now everything says 4500 pounds??? What happened?
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It says 6500 right in the owners manual?
 
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When doing a simple search:
"2021 jeep gladiator towing capacity"
you'll find car and drive gives 4,000-4,500 max towing for the diesel. And on Jeep.com's own site when you do a comparison it says towing capacity 4,000lbs.

Where is there a reliable source? I have the diesel & it is not in the door jam sticker. All I see is a payload of 1208lbs. Hopefully someone has a definite reliable source to point to
 

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It’s in the manual. You just need to read it.
 

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When doing a simple search:
"2021 jeep gladiator towing capacity"
you'll find car and drive gives 4,000-4,500 max towing for the diesel. And on Jeep.com's own site when you do a comparison it says towing capacity 4,000lbs.

Where is there a reliable source? I have the diesel & it is not in the door jam sticker. All I see is a payload of 1208lbs. Hopefully someone has a definite reliable source to point to
The website only shows the minimum rating for every trim level it would be nice if the site showed all options
 

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I have a diesel on order and my sales guy sent me this...

I have a Sport S on order so he didnt snap the next page with the Overland or Rubicon diesel.
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@JTRdiesel & @jwilson2899
When doing a simple search:
"2021 jeep gladiator towing capacity"
you'll find car and drive gives 4,000-4,500 max towing for the diesel. And on Jeep.com's own site when you do a comparison it says towing capacity 4,000lbs.

Where is there a reliable source? I have the diesel & it is not in the door jam sticker. All I see is a payload of 1208lbs. Hopefully someone has a definite reliable source to point to
The reliable source is the owners manual, it’s right in there. Honestly the Jeep site is notoriously wrong about these things, I swear they let a bunch of 4 year olds run that thing. Here’s a copy of those pages from the manual

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pre-release the numbers were never higher than 5,000 lbs for the diesel due to added weight and cooling concerns (smaller radiator than the Ram)...I'm surprised to see 6,500 in the manual, so diesel owners should be happy with that.
 
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Found a helpful video online, which shows a real world towing test of the gladiator:
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