general problems of the 2012 Chevrolet Malibu - part 2

Headlights keep going out after being changed multiple times.

Car starts and after 2 seconds turns back off. Car will start again and drive fine for hours and then it will happen again. Problem is intermittent but no one can figure out the problem and diagnostic won't read the problem. No check engine light.

Car will start and then start shaking and making noises then dies off. Break and accelaretor locks after that.

My car has randomly not been starting. One time I go out and it starts and another time I go out and it just cranks but doesn't start. Have tested the obd but no codes come up.

My car is not working the steering wheel and brake.

Car randomly not starting had solenoids replaced and fuel pump. It started a few times then wouldn't start acts like it's going to but not getting enough fuel. Had diagnostic reading done when it was doing this the code reading was vehicle submersion. The mechanic asked if it had ever been flooded like in deep water. Never had been but that was the code reading. He redid diagnostics different codes then came up showing other crazy things. None of these were correct. Anyway long story short 3 different garages had no idea what to do. I traded the car for a new one but I believe this should be looked into because alot of people I've talked to with this year make and model car around the same mileage are having this problem my car had 73000 miles. Sometimes it's shutting down while driving. There is something faulty in the computer system that's not showing up until a few years after purchase. I have receipts of repairs and phone numbers to garages.

At first the car would not turn over when trying to start, happened when using key in ignition as well as using the remote starter, this was random. Would run fine for days, sometimes for a week, then it won't start. Also as the weeks went by while idling at a red light, the car just quits running, couldn't get it started, after several tries, it starts (thankfully). Also happened while in park, car just stops. Also while driving on the interstate the car all of a sudden will not accelerate, press on gas pedal. . . Nothing. Until today after a few seconds and the car suddenly starts to accelerate. Engine light came on few weeks ago, stated it was the cam shaft position sensor ($120. 00), therefore we replaced both sensors. No change! OH we also replaced the fuel injector sensor in the back. Husband read someone else had the same problem and he recommended hitting the box in the trunk (where the fuel sensor is, etc) and your car will start up. Sure enough, the next time my car wouldn't start, I hit that box a few times, and car started.

A couple of months ago, I was driving. 10mph or lower and all of a sudden my cars esc turned itself off. I had difficulty steering it and veered off the road. Thankfully I was able to regain control. I reported it to the dealer, and when my car went in for it's 3rd recall in 2 years, they looked at it. They told me they could not get the problem to duplicate. Then today, as I was parking in NY driveway, I started rolling my windows up when I noticed they were particullary slow. I put the car in park,turned my car off, but the key back in and tried to restart it, only to hear clicking and my steering wheel to be completely locked up. Alot of indicators came on, including the cars security indicator. My car is at 66k miles, but we do routine maintenance and it has never been involved in a car accident.

The key gets stuck in the ignition switch. I could not take the key out one day and left the key in the ignition switch as far as it could turn and locked the car with the spare key. My car battery ended up dying because the key would not come out of the ignition switch. I finally got the key out and got my car started. It is a constant struggle to get the key out of the ignition switch. I can start the car ok it's just when I stop and put the car in park and try to turn the car completely off the key will not turn all the way for me to be able to pull the key out. This car is only 3 years old and too soon for this to be happening.

I received the attached letter from gm. To me this is a serious safety issue. How is this not a recall. Or repairable.

While driving, the sunroof shattered for no apparent reason. The roof was closed at the time, and the headliner was also closed. It made a very loud noise and the vehicle was pulled to the side to ascertain the reason for the noise. It was discovered that the sunroof had completely shattered. There was no bridge overpass, so it is doubted that something was dropped. No physical injury occurred, however, it was a scary incident. We took the vehicle to the chevy dealer, who stated that there was no recall on the glass and that it must have been a rock. The glass & frame were replaced through an insurance claim.

After coming home from a basketball tournament shut off my car on Saturday night on Sunday morning when I went to get in my vehicle to drive to work it would not start. Let vehicle sit all day Sunday then on Monday tried again still would not start and the check engine light comes on. Had a tow truck come to home to pick vehicle up and drive to delership tow truck driver also tried to start car would not start upone vehicle getting to dealership starts right up dealership drove it kept it over night no issues. I picked my vehicle up from dealership last night drove for about 2 hours parked car for the night now this morning it will not start again. Dealership had my vehilce for 2days and could not find a problem but clearly there is some sort of electrical issue or something otherwise I wouldnt keep having this happen. Something about the tow company lifting the vehicle seems to shift something and allows vehicle to work for a couple of days.

My car was serviced for a recall to repair/replace esc and traction in approx. November. After my car was serviced the light came on weeks later but went away and didn't come back on until 3/5/2015. Every since than the gear shift gets stuck when in park and I have to cut car off and on sometimes in order for it to switch from park to reverse or drive. The car drives very sluggish as well since the service light came on.

I have a 2012 Chevrolet mailbu where the key is getting stuck in the ignition. Really hard to get off of acc without jiggling gear shifter and turning wheels. This has happened three times. There is a recall already iniated but not for my year of car!.

In June 2014 car wouldn't start after sitting 4 hours towed in said theft system made new key which I had to pay for, towed in again 3 days later later same problem, started for dealer in am another $120. 4 days approx later again got to work then wouldn't start. Replaced rear u-bec, wiring harness junction block, relay, because melted connector with five leads 30 amp fues. Then 9/23/2014 car started got to daycare within 5 minutes of being off no start. Waited then started ten minutes later. 9/272014 got to work lunch time no start same wanted to start like getting no fuel then 3 hours later started drove to dealer.

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.

I was driving on a side road, when all of a sudden my car just shut down and I coasted to a stop. I was stranded in a turn lane for about 20 minutes. During which time I had already called a tow truck as I could not get my car started again. After the 20 minutes I thought I would give it another try and it up and started, and I drove back to work. I made it home that night, but was stranded again when I left the place. I was headed home and it stopped one more time before I made it there. I took it to an auto shop the next day and made it fine. The auto shop did a test drive and it stopped on a road and they failed to get it started. It turns out it is for an ignition switch, which there are recalls for other gm vehicles for the same part, just not a 2012 Malibu. So I have to pay to get it replaced and hope for an extension of the recall for the chevy Malibu.

I was just arriving home and while driving I felt a change in the gears of my car but when I arrived home and place the car in park the ignition would not turn completely off and I had to leave my car on for approximately 4 hours before I left for work.

The plastic-covered lug nuts on my 2012 Chevrolet Malibu do not stay tight against the wheels. The oem lug nuts vibrate loose and need to be checked periodically (I. E. , monthly). Loose lug nuts are a significant safety hazard. I was unable to obtain replacement all-metal lug nuts for this vehicle from a Chevrolet dealership. I suggest that Chevrolet replace the plastic-covered lug nuts with all-metal lug nuts at no cost to the customers.

Was driving on lake shore driving when I had to slow down only to have to push the bakes down to the floor and that should not be. This has happen a lot and I have not had this vehicle for a year yet. Now I'm scared to drive my car.

On 12/26/13 myself and two other ladies were heading home early morning when all of a sudden my vehicle just shut down in the middle of the hwy. Without warning, luckily no traffic was coming because we had to push the vehicle off the hwy. After it sat for awhile it cranked back up and we managed to get it home. I drove it to work 12/27/13 but it did the same thing twice (once before 8 a. M. When I stopped at a gas station to get something to drink and again at 12:00 p. M. On my lunch break) during my lunch break I was at the gas station pumping gas, I turned off the engine to pay for my gas. When I returned my car wouldn't crank. I called the dealership, they connected me to the service department. The service man offered to come tow my vehicle, but after about 30 minutes it, of course, cranked. Nonetheless I gave them the address of my employment and told them to come pick it up so they could find out what was wrong with it. That same day the service man replaced the relay switch and said the problem was taken care of and I could pick up my car. I picked up my car on 12/30/13. On my way home on this same day (12/30/13) my vehicle shut down at the red light with traffic backed up behind me. I took my vehicle back to them and they kept it almost 2 weeks and could not find anything wrong with it but offered to replace the fuel tank, hoping this would solve the problem. I called them on 3/24/14 because my vehicle shut down again on 3/23/14, no one has returned my call. Can someone please tell me what is going on with this vehicle.

We own a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu that has a problem with excessive vibration (shuddering) in the steering of the car especially when turning a corner. But now the car is developing more abnormal issues like the steering wheeling is moving back and forth on its own while driving on a flat straight smooth road. Also noted are clicking noises now heard in the steering wheel hub. With the worsening condition of the steering I am becoming reluctant to drive the car because I am concerned about the steering failing while operating the car. I have notified Chevrolet and I am waiting for them to get back to me. The car has been in the Chevrolet service dept. At least 6 times since 9/05/2013 for this problem and with 3 of those times was with a Chevrolet engineer. But Chevrolet cannot fix the problem and it is getting worse.

I was on my way to work. It was 57 degrees outside so I turned my rear defrost on. After about 5min of my defrost being on, my back window completely exploded. Im not sure if there was a short in the defroster or what but there was no visible damage to anything on the vehicle except the window that completely spiderwebbed.

I was heading southbound colerain. . As I was going through a green light this young lady kept on coming at me and I slammed my breaks on and move my steering wheel in a hard way to avoid her hitting me and also last year slamming my breaks to avoid hitting a car infront of me that there was an accident on 75 south bound in kentucky my steering wheel has some play in it.

Instrument cluster lights turn on and off.