Five problems related to anti-theft controller have been reported for the 2012 Chevrolet Malibu. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2012 Chevrolet Malibu based on all problems reported for the 2012 Malibu.
The anti-theft system randomly activates and shuts down the car. It prevents me from starting the car. It usually happens when I am trying to start the car but I've read posts about it happening while people are driving.
Tl the contact owns a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu. The contact stated that the vehicle failed to start. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The battery was jumpstarted by the contact. The vehicle was taken to james corlew Chevrolet (722 college st, clarksville, TN 37040, (931) 552-2020) where it was diagnosed that the anti-theft system needed to be reset. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 180,000.
The contact owns a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu. While driving 40 mph, the vehicle stalled. The contact was able to restart the vehicle after some time. In addition, the vehicle failed to start intermittently. The air bag and anti theft warning lights illuminated. The failure recurred on numerous occasions. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 95,261. The VIN was unavailable.
We purchased a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu sept. 2014 and it has been serviced 3 x due to the power steering locking up while driving and failure to start several times. The car would chime and the gauges would all drop to 0 and the engine light, power steering, low fuel and anti-theft light would all light up making the vehicle very difficult to maneuver.
In 8/25/2014 it started when my wife want to start the car and it didn't just cranks but wont started, it did after a few tries, and then happened again the same day to my son and after a little while it started right back, and that same week I was driving about 30 miles per hr. And all of sudden it just died with no codes or check engine light displayed,it is too dangerous that happen in the middle of a main road because it didn't want to re start I have to push it across of the road with all this cars behind you and be afraid of being hit. It seems that it been more and more frequently happening this week and takes longer wait to re start it, I just want to know if is a defect of this Malibu 2012 I. I heard that Malibu's have a issue with the antitheft system. We scanned computer history and it shows antitheft history stored on it. Am afraid of go into expressway and run into an accident. Please help my car is a 2012 impala with 65000 miles on it.