2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU — Complaint #1095510
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ANTI-THEFT DEVICES filed August 7, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1095510 (ODI reference 10620734) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU and was filed on August 7, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 25, 2008. The vehicle had 112,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:electrical:anti-theft devices, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET MALIBU cohort independently describe similar equipment:electrical:anti-theft devices failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE ANTI-THEFT SENSOR WAS ILLUMINATING INTERMITTENTLY. IN ADDITION, THE CONTACT WAS NOT ABLE TO GET THE KEY TO TURN FROM AN OFF POSITION TO AN ON POSITION. ON SOME OCCASIONS, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO START. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC, WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE IGNITION SWITCH NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 12V224000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM). THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 112,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1095510 |
| ODI Number | 10620734 |
| Date Filed | August 7, 2014 |
| Failure Date | June 25, 2008 |
| VIN | 1G1NE52J1Y6 |
Similar EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ANTI-THEFT DEVICES Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU
WHILE DRIVING ANTI THEFT LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE DASHBOARD. CONSUMER HAD TO COMPLETELY SHUT OFF THE VEHICLE OFF BEFORE THE LIGHT WNT OFF. CONTACTED THE DEALER. HOWEVER, THE PROBLEM RECURRED. *AK
THE ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY LOCKED THE VEHICLE. THIS CAUSED THE VEHICLE NOT TO MOVE. CONSUMER HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION, AND DEALER COULD NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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