2003 CHEVROLET MALIBU Complaints

THERE ARE PAOBLEM WITH THE CHEVY MALIBUS HAVING FAULTY IGNITION SWITCHES ALSO. WHY HAVE THESE NOT BEEN RECALL YET.MINE IS A 2003. *JS

AFTER DRIVING FROM OUR HOUSE TO A FAMILY MEMBERS HOUSE, WE HAD PARKED OUR CAR TO VISIT FOR A WHILE. WHEN WE RETURNED NOT EVEN 30 MINS LATER, WE WENT TO START THE CAR AND IT WOULDN'T START. AFTER MANY PAST ISSUES WITH THIS, WE SENT IT IN TO A SHOP TO HAVE THEM TAKE A LOOK AT IT. THEY STATED THAT THE THEFT-ALERT SYSTEM WAS MALFUNCTIONING. I WISH CHEVY WOULD FINALLY RECALL THIS ISSUE. *TR

I WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND YOUR COMPANY FOR MAKING A DURABLE PRODUCT. HOWEVER, I PURCHASE A 2003 CHEVY-MALIBU IN 2004 FROM CARMAX-RALEIGH, N.C. ACCORDING TO THE CARFAX, THERE WAS ONLY ONE PREVIOUS OWNER. I PURCHASED THE EXTENDED WARRANTY FOR ONLY THREE YEARS AND HAD THE VEHICLE SERVICED BY RICK HENDRIX CHEVROLET IN DURHAM, N.C. AFTER THE WARRANTY EXPIRED, I WOULD TAKE MY VEHICLE TO A CERTIFIED MECHANIC IN NORFOLK, VA THAT I HAVE DEALT FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. CONSEQUENTLY, I WOULD HAVE REPAIRS DONE AND HE KEPT THE CAR RUNNING AS REQUIRED. HOWEVER, ABOUT YEAR 2010, DURING REGULAR MAINTENANCE - THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON, FOLLOWED BY THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT - THEN THE VEHICLE WOULD START BUT NO DISPLAY ON THE DASH AND NO ELECTRICAL FUNCTIONS WORKED? ABOUT 5-10 MINUTES LATER WITH CAR STILL RUNNING - THE DASH WOULD LIGHT UP AND ELECTRICAL FUNCTIONS OPERABLE. MY MECHANIC WAS ABLE TO ELIMINATE TO CHECK ENGINE/SERVICE ENGINE DISPLAYS WITH REQUIRED MAINTENANCE. HOWEVER, THE DASH DISPLAY AND POWER LOSS CONTINUED? HE DECIDED TO REPLACE THE IGNITION SWITCH AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE SAME PROBLEMS REAPPEARED? NOW I HAVE TWO SEPARATE KEYS, ONE FOR DOOR/TRUNK LOCKS AND ONE FOR THE IGNITION. PRESENTLY, EVEN AFTER MAINTENANCE, THE VEHICLE HAS STARTED MISSING/PUTTING OR POSSIBLY LOSING POWER? I CONTACTED GM (800)222-1020 AND (800)630-2438 AND WAS TOLD THAT MY VEHICLE WAS NOT ON THE GM RECALL LIST? CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT INFORMATION AND THE REASON WHY IT IS NOT ON THE LIST? DO I REALLY NEED TO WAIT UNTIL MY FAMILY IS INJURED OR WORST BEFORE A DEFECT IS ACKNOWLEDGE? *TR

THE CAR WILL NOT START DUE TO ANTITHEFT LIGHT BEING ON. IT STARTED HAPPENING OCCASIONALLY, NOW IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. SOME DAYS EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO START IT WILL NOT START. HAVE TO TURN KEY TO ON POSITION WAIT 10 PLUS MINUTES UNTIL ANTITHEFT LIGHT STOPS FLASHING THEN TURN OFF AND RESTART. THIS IS GETTING VERY FRUSTRATING AND I HAVE READ MILLIONS OF COMPLAINTS FROM OTHERS ONLINE ABOUT THIS. GM IS WELL AWARE OF THE ISSUE AND WILL DO NOTHING TO FIX THIS. THIS CAR IS FOR MY 17 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND I FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HER DRIVING THIS VEHICLE AS I AM NOW READING WHERE THIS ALSO HAPPENS WHILE DRIVING IN TRAFFIC THE CAR WILL JUST SHUT OFF. THIS IS A MAJOR RISK AND GM NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO REPAIR THIS CONSTANTLY HAPPENING PROBLEM. IF THEY WILL NOT RECALL THEN THEY NEED TO PUBLICLY ISSUE THE CORRECT REMEDY FOR THIS NOT JUST THE 10 MINUTE RESTART QUICK, BUT TEMPORARY FIX WHICH CAUSES MANY PROBLEMS. MY DAUGHTER HAS BEEN STRANDED IN PLACES UNTIL HER CAR WILL START. THIS HAPPENED ONCE WHILE MY HUSBAND WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY IN JUNE 2013 WE THOUGHT IT WAS THE FUEL PUMP AND HAD THAT REPLACED APPROXIMATELY 4-5 MONTHS LATER THE ANTITHEFT ISSUE STARTED. OBVIOUSLY THE FUEL PUMP WAS NOT THE ISSUE RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING OF THIS NEVER ENDING PROBLEM. THANKFULLY MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT DRIVING AT THAT TIME AS THE CAR JUST DIED GOING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. I FEEL THAT GM NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM AS IT DOES AFFECT MILLIONS AND WITH THIS VEHICLE I SEEN A LOT OF YOUNG, NEW DRIVERS, IN THIS TYPE OF VEHICLE. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF COMPLAINTS REGARDING THIS ISSUE AND GM REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. HOPEFULLY THEY WILL ADDRESS THIS BEFORE THEY BEGIN BEING SUED FOR SERIOUS ACCIDENTS OR DEATHS DUE TO THEIR LACK OF ACTION AND REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF CONSUMERS. *JS

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 CHEVROLET MALIBU. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH, THE BRAKES FAILED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE WHILE THE BRAKES WERE APPLIED, CAUSING THE CONTACT TO CRASH INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND A POLICE REPORT WAS NOT FILED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE PROBLEM. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 29,332. UPADATED 06/24/14 MA UPDATED 06/30/2014 *JS

WHEN I AM DRIVING THE KEY WILL JUST FALL OUT OF THE IGNITION WHILE RUNNING FOR NO REASON,ESPECIALLY WHILE GOING OVER BUMPS. THE CAR RECENTLY HAS ALSO STARTED TO CONTINUE RUNNING WHILE THE KEY IS TURNED INTO. THE OFF POSITION! *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 CHEVROLET MALIBU. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE STALLED WITHOUT WARNING MORE THAN ONE TIME. THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY. THE KEY MADE A CLICKING NOISE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO START THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO MAKE A TICKING NOISE AT RANDOM ONCE THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER WHO WAS UNABLE TO REPLICATE NOR DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO SHAKE VIOLENTLY WHILE TRAVELING AT ANY SPEED ABOVE 60 MPH . THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER WHO WAS UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 70,000.

WE OWN A 2003 CHEV MALIBU, SOLD AND SERVICED IN CANADA, BUT MANUFACTURED AT GM'S LANSING, MICHIGAN ASSEMBLY PLANT. CHEV MALIBUS ARE NOT YET INCLUDED ON THE GM IGNITION SWITCH RECALL LIST, BUT IN OCT/11 WE HAD EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEMS REPORTED BY THOSE VEHICLES CURRENTLY ON THE RECALL LIST: FOR PERHAPS 5 SECONDS, A TOTAL LOSS OF ALL POWER (ENGINE, LIGHTS, POWER STEERING, POWER BRAKES, ETC.,) WHILE DRIVING ON A HIGHWAY AT 60 MPH, AT NIGHT. AFTER THAT 5 SECOND DELAY, ALL POWER RESUMED, (LIGHTS, ENGINE, ETC) AND THE CAR OPERATED PERFECTLY FOR THE REST OF THE DRIVE HOME. A DAY LATER, WE AGAIN HAD A TOTAL LOSS OF ALL POWER, THIS TIME WHILE TURNING A CORNER AT SLOW SPEED. THE LOSS OF POWER STEERING AND BRAKING MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT THEN. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER, ON 25 OCT/11, I HAD MY IGNITION SWITCH REPLACED AT MY LOCAL GM CHEV DEALERSHIP, AT A COST OF $416.51. AT NO TIME DID THE DEALER MENTION ANY KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THESE IGNITION SWITCHES. IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT RECALL, I CONTACTED MY GM DEALERSHIP, WHO STATED THEY COULD NOT COMMENT ON WHETHER THE REPLACEMENT SWITCH IS POTENTIALLY FAULTY OR NOT - AND HOW WOULD DEALERS KNOW, IF GM REPLACED THE ORIGINAL SWITCHES WITHOUT CHANGING THE PART NUMBER? WERE DEALERS TOLD TO GET RID OF THE "OLD STOCK", OR TO RETURN IT TO GM? THE DEALER STATED THAT, IF AND WHEN MY VEHICLE IS ADDED TO THE CURRENT RECALL LIST, THEY WOULD "REPLACE THE REPLACEMENT". IN OTHER WORDS, I COULD BE DRIVING WITH A FAULTY SWITCH - A POTENTIAL DANGER TO MYSELF AND TO OTHERS....AND, TO DATE, GM APPARENTLY DOESN'T PLAN TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I'M OUT $416 AND MAY STILL HAVE A DEFECTIVE IGNITION SWITCH. I RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT'S AUTHORITY DOESN'T EXTEND TO CANADA. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH MY VEHICLE WAS SOLD AND SERVICED IN CANADA, IT WAS MANUFACTURED IN LANSING, MICHIGAN - LIKE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER CHEV MALIBUS. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 CHEVROLET MALIBU. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WOULD SPORADICALLY STALL WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT WAS USUALLY ABLE TO RESTART THE VEHICLE HOWEVER, THERE WERE INSTANCES WHEN THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT IMMEDIATELY RESTART. THE FAILURE WAS RECURRING AND THE IGNITION SWITCH WAS REPLACED THREE TIMES BY AN AUTHORIZED DEALER HOWEVER, THE FAILURE CONTINUOUSLY RECURRED. THE CONTACT ALSO STATED THAT THE POWER STEERING ASSIST WOULD INTERMITTENTLY FAIL. THE CONTACT REFERENCED NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 14V153000 (STEERING) BUT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL CAMPAIGN. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE MULTIPLE TIMES AND PROVIDED NO REMEDY. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 53728.

THE CAR WOULD RANDOMLY STOP RUNNING. THIS COULD HAPPEN WHILE ON THE HIGHWAY OR WHEN THE CAR WAS IN MOTION. DAUGHTER WAS CAUGHT A COUPLE OF TIME IN THE SITUATION. NO POWER STEERING OF BRAKES. COULD HAVE HAD A FATAL ACCIDENT. IF YOU LOOK AT THIS CAR AND OTHER GM CARS, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF COMPLAINTS, THE PROBLEM LIES WITH THE PASS LOCK SYSTEM (ANTI THEFT). THE CAR THINKS THAT ITS THE WRONG KEY AND KILLS THE IGNITION. I FOUND A WORK AROUND ONLINE. WHICH INVOLVES WIRING A RESISTOR INTO THE IGNITION SYSTEM....THE CAR HAS BEEN FINE SINCE. *TR