Owners of certain Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles should check whether their vehicles fall within a recall linked to a potential power-steering electrical fault and fire risk.
The National Consumer Commission's notice, posted on 3 November, covers 1,896 vehicles, including 1,881 sold nationally. The affected vehicles were made available for sale between 2021 and 2025.
According to the supplier information cited in the notice, an electrical connection at the electric hydraulic power-steering pump may develop high resistance. Drivers may receive a loss-of-assistance or Service Power Steering warning. In some circumstances, the connection can cause overheating and potentially a fire.
The commission directs affected owners to an authorised Jeep dealership for inspection and necessary repairs at no cost. It also identifies the VIN-check facility on Jeep's website as a way to establish whether a vehicle is affected.
This is a guide to the existing South African notice, not a claim that every Wrangler or Gladiator is affected or that a new recall was announced today. No vehicle's VIN or repair status was checked for this report.
Official recall notice: National Consumer Commission.
Contextual motoring archive: an N10 road sign in the Northern Cape on 14 September 2009, not an affected Jeep vehicle or repair scene. Photo: NJR ZA / Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Africa-N10-001_(cropped).jpg . Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . Source cropped by Waddie96 in 2018; further cropped and resized for display. Display adaptations are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
