diff --git a/src/core/frames/frame_controller.ts b/src/core/frames/frame_controller.ts
index 036df862b..d94c5c005 100644
--- a/src/core/frames/frame_controller.ts
+++ b/src/core/frames/frame_controller.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ export class FrameController
     }
   }
 
+  sourceURLReloaded() {
+    const { src } = this.element
+    this.ignoringChangesToAttribute("complete", () => {
+      this.element.removeAttribute("complete")
+    })
+    this.element.src = null
+    this.element.src = src
+    return this.element.loaded
+  }
+
   completeChanged() {
     if (this.isIgnoringChangesTo("complete")) return
 
diff --git a/src/elements/frame_element.ts b/src/elements/frame_element.ts
index a995da374..82a4b113a 100644
--- a/src/elements/frame_element.ts
+++ b/src/elements/frame_element.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export interface FrameElementDelegate extends LinkClickObserverDelegate, FormSub
   completeChanged(): void
   loadingStyleChanged(): void
   sourceURLChanged(): void
+  sourceURLReloaded(): Promise<void>
   disabledChanged(): void
   loadResponse(response: FetchResponse): void
   fetchResponseLoaded: (fetchResponse: FetchResponse) => void
@@ -63,11 +64,7 @@ export class FrameElement extends HTMLElement {
   }
 
   reload(): Promise<void> {
-    const { src } = this
-    this.removeAttribute("complete")
-    this.src = null
-    this.src = src
-    return this.loaded
+    return this.delegate.sourceURLReloaded()
   }
 
   attributeChangedCallback(name: string) {
diff --git a/src/tests/functional/frame_tests.ts b/src/tests/functional/frame_tests.ts
index 6b675aef4..8560a1560 100644
--- a/src/tests/functional/frame_tests.ts
+++ b/src/tests/functional/frame_tests.ts
@@ -492,6 +492,25 @@ test("test navigating a frame targeting _top from an outer link fires events", a
   assert.equal(otherEvents.length, 0, "no more events")
 })
 
+test("test invoking .reload() re-fetches the frame's content", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.click("#link-frame")
+  await nextEventOnTarget(page, "frame", "turbo:frame-load")
+  await page.evaluate(() => (document.getElementById("frame") as any).reload())
+
+  const dispatchedEvents = await readEventLogs(page)
+
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    dispatchedEvents.map(([name, _, id]) => [id, name]),
+    [
+      ["frame", "turbo:before-fetch-request"],
+      ["frame", "turbo:before-fetch-response"],
+      ["frame", "turbo:before-frame-render"],
+      ["frame", "turbo:frame-render"],
+      ["frame", "turbo:frame-load"],
+    ]
+  )
+})
+
 test("test following inner link reloads frame on every click", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.click("#hello a")
   await nextEventNamed(page, "turbo:before-fetch-request")