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2021 JEEP GLADIATOR — Complaint #2075099

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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed March 18, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2075099 (ODI reference 11649137) concerns a 2021 JEEP GLADIATOR and was filed on March 18, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 17, 2025. The report was geocoded to Utah based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same JEEP GLADIATOR cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2021 JEEP GLADIATOR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2021 JEEP GLADIATOR
Component
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
State
Utah

Complaint Description

The center brake light went out on my Jeep around 30000 miles. I don’t know when it went out, but it’s an obvious safety concern and common problem with Jeep Gladiator’s. My vehicle is outside warranty of warranty, but a search of a Jeep forum reveals the dealers covered some folks under warranty but not others. My dealer wants $330 to fix what is obviously a defective part of a key safety feature (LED lights are typically rated for 50,000 hours or 6 years of constant illumination).

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2075099
ODI Number 11649137
Date Filed March 18, 2025
Failure Date March 17, 2025
VIN 1C6JJTEG0ML

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.