2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU — Complaint #2080556
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NHTSA Complaint about Other/I am not sure filed April 5, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2080556 (ODI reference 11652973) concerns a 2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU and was filed on April 5, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 2, 2024. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as other/i am not sure, 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 other/i am not sure 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 2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Car seat was inspected from the beginning of the purchase. The car seat through the seatbelt method was not sturdy enough and incorrectly leveled without the base even though the car seat claims to be for both uses (with or without the base). It claims to be for infants/ toddler (max 35lbs / max 32â) but my child outgrew after 1 year and was less than 30lbs / less than 30â I recently received a recall a few weeks ago. After years of purchasing. Plus the recall is before the expiration date of the car seat I own.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2080556 |
| ODI Number | 11652973 |
| Date Filed | April 5, 2025 |
| Failure Date | March 2, 2024 |
| VIN | 1G1ZD5ST6JF |
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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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