2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU — Complaint #1558662
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558662 (ODI reference 11196886) concerns a 2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 10, 2019. The vehicle had 102,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, 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 exterior lighting 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 2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I DROVE FOUR HOURS TO BUY THIS CAR GET THERE ITS POUR RAIN DO TEST DRIVE AROUND BLOCK BUY CAR GET READY AND LEAVE AND STOP AT GAS STATION CAUSE ITS OUT OF GAS WELL PASSENGER REAR TIRE HAD 5 LBS OF AIR IN IT FILL IT UP GET ON HIGHWAY AND CAR STARTS SHAKING LIKE CRAZY AND IS ALL OVER THE ROAD CAR LOT IS CLOSE AND SO IS RENTAL PLACE SO I DRIVE HOME AND HAVE TEXTED OWNER TO TELL HIM TO GET TOW TRUCK AT MY HOUSE IN MORNING TO PICK IT UP I DIDN'T WANT IT AND HE DID REASON IM WRITING THIS IS I TOLD HIM HOW BAD THIS CAR WAS AND I LOOKED ON THERE SITE AND ITS BACK UP FOR LESS THAN I BOUGHT IT FOR THAT CAR IS WAY TO DANGEROUS TO BE ON THE ROAD
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558662 |
| ODI Number | 11196886 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 10, 2019 |
| VIN | 1G11J5SXXDF |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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