Recall Register

Chevrolet Malibu Eco: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Chevrolet Malibu Eco, model years 2013 to 2014. NHTSA has 99 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 2 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

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Chevrolet Malibu Eco: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2014 Chevrolet Malibu Eco NHTSA page01224%
2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco187176%42,904

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

173 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet Malibu Eco: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System294.851
Engine138.724
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)98.317
Steering92.516
Service Brakes75.113
Unknown or Other63.611
Air Bags57.810
Power Train529
Fuel/Propulsion System34.76
Vehicle Speed Control23.14

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Malibu Eco, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2013, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Malibu Eco, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 32 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Malibu Eco: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/malibu-eco/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet Malibu Eco model years have the most recall campaigns?
2013 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Malibu Eco model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 model year, with 87 of the 99 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Malibu Eco name?
Electrical System: 294.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 138.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electronic Stability Control (ESC): 98.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Malibu Eco?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.