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2007 Chevrolet Malibu stability control problems

22 complaints about stability control have been filed for the 2007 Chevrolet Malibu, which is 2% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
22 2% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
159,000 miles 16 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
7 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When stability control problems show up

Stability control complaints by mileage, 2007 Chevrolet Malibu Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 159,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 0 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 1 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 0 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 2 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 2 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 2 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 3 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 5 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 159,000 miles
Based on 16 complaints that include mileage. 13% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles0
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles1
60k to 80k miles0
80k to 100k miles2
100k to 120k miles2
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles2
160k to 180k miles3
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles5

What the data shows

Of the 16 stability control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 158,000 miles, and 12% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 7 injuries.

What owners wrote

Driving 2007 chevrolet malibu when another vehicle pulled out of side street proceeded to engage brakes and vehicle skidded out of control causing accident. A b s failure and traction control failure causing vehicle to be total loss.

Reported at 31,933 miles, January 2009 CrashInjury

Power steering light keeps going on when you first start it and when car is restarted it goes off. Steering wheel vibrates back and forth while idling and power steering was going in and out while driving and is now completely out. This happened for about 3 days before power steering went completely out.

Reported at 100,000 miles, January 2016

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