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Complaints on this exact build 4
NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
That is about average for the 2012 Chevrolet MALIBU — 6 complaints per build across 127 builds.
What owners of this build wrote
Steering Jun 2020
Exterior Lighting Oct 2019
Air Bags May 2018
Steering Jan 2019
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