Federal complaint record · Chevrolet Malibu · model year 2013

2013 Chevrolet Malibu

Owners submitted 834 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 61th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 27% · group n = 375Engine · 16% · group n = 215Steering · 13% · group n = 181Other · 7% · group n = 90Stability control · 5% · group n = 72
834
Complaint records on file
69,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 595 complaints reported mileage
27%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 375
61th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Electrical · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Electrical27%

Electrical reports

Chevrolet Malibu · model year 2013

Reports in this group375
Share of classified reports27%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
904 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
834 matched incidents
2014
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
349 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Stalling or shutdown · 155 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32013 Chevrolet Malibu
Steering effort · 121 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32013 Chevrolet Malibu
Electrical faults · 82 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32013 Chevrolet Malibu

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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