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Love it or hate it
carlover1996, 07/15/2012
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
12 of 14 people found this review helpful
We bought our Malibu in April of 2010. In the beginning we absolutely loved our Malibu. After a few months of owning it problems/things we dislike began to appear. First, the 4 cyl is not enough for this car. It has devoloped a hesitation when hitting the gas (delayed for 1-2 seconds sometimes and is dangerous when trying to get out of the way!). Second, the seats are hard and uncomfortable for more than a half hour. They hardly have ANY padding and the backseat had no center armrest. Third is visability, its not horrible, but if you are around 5 feet tall you will have trouble or cannot use your mirrors. Other than these issues the car is a good overall car, but we are about to trade it in.
Passenger Airbag Problems
foresterjoe, 08/26/2013
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 4A)
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
My wife and I bought this car two years ago with only 21k on it. Drove it and loved it initially, then the car started to have issues. Since we have owned it (now over 2 years), we have had it in the shop 6 times; 5 of those dealing with the passenger air bag system and 1 to replace the final drive in the transmission. 3 out of the 5 times have been for the wiring harness/connectors. We just had it in last month for the airbag and guess what, yesterday we had the light come back on. Poor design that GM won't recognize as being a major problem. Thank goodness for extended warranty, but still costs us $100 a pop for deductible. Won't buy another GM car again. That's for sure!
130K Miles and still running strong
Chepnih, 01/04/2017
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 4A)
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
So far so good. I have owned this car for 6 years. Regular maintenance is all it needs. Engine and Transmission still in great shape. A lot more reliable than accord that I used to own. My only issue is with the headlights. You need to spend an hour of labor to change just the bulb. But after watching a few youtube videos, I changed the last one myself.
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pretty good car.
shotgun1496, 07/26/2012
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 4A)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
have had tons of issues but thats from tons of driving every day. car wasn't running good lately but then it hit a truck tire on the freeway, tore the crap out of the bottom of the car, got it fixed for $4000, but this car has never ran so great, i love it now rides smooth and quietly, runs good but to small of an engine for the car.
Elegant and reliable
Azury Florio, 05/27/2016
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LT1 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
The best design among Malibus
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no acceleration/ headlights a pain to change
janel alderman, 10/09/2015
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 4A)
16 of 21 people found this review helpful
you have to take off the whole bumper to change out the headlights. normally costs $5.00 to change normal headlights, this one over a hundred dollars. chevy must be supporting body shops and giving them more business with no regards to the owner.
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Beware of Chevy Customer Service.
IMom, 10/19/2010
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Bought a beautiful 2010 Chevy Malibu in May 2010. Started having 'misfiring' problems in July. Long story short, I have had it for just 5 months 3 of which it has had issues. 4 times in and out of the dealer to try and get it fixed. Called Chevy Customer service and basically got nothing. They don't help, don't call back or if they do it's to repeat what the dealer has already told me. Supposedly it's an intermittent problem and they can't fix it unless they can reproduce it even after diagnostics shows 'misfires'. Then they say they will help get me out of the problem and change their mind the next day. Bottom line is no customer satisfaction. Wish I would have kept my Ford Fusion!
I got rid of it but im stuck for years!!!
Jay, 09/26/2018
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 4A)
9 of 13 people found this review helpful
I bought this car used low mileage, purchased a warranty still, little did i know it wouldnt cover anything. 2 days after purchase i brought it back to dealer because of the transmission slamming into gear and they told me that was normal. Fast foward a year and half the car started breaking down, headlights never worked, oil leaked, door locks dont work, car shaked so bad, and actually my car rolled into a brick wall while IN park and the front end was dented and scraped. Finally, my rotors got so hot they melted my tires, last straw, after finding out my transmission needed to be replaced at 83k miles!!!! I still owed 8k on it and i traded it for the bare minimum 1500!!!! I then had to pay an additional 1k out of pocket for even a down payment ( i have great credit) just to get into a better car!!! So fast foward i bought a 2018 kia optima and i love it, however my loan and payments expand to 7 years at 500$ because of how bad this car screwed me over. I will never EVER own a chevy again!!! Pure junk!!!
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CalgarySL, 11/12/2009
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LT1 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
I got 1LT Mocha Steel Metallic 2010 model and already have 3000 Kms on it. Ride is so smooth. Unfortunately, an someone rear ended it, but very little damage. Car is in body shop now.
Junk chevy and gm
Big D, 08/15/2018
2010 Chevrolet Malibu LT1 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
6 of 9 people found this review helpful
Gm is super cheap and doesn't use hardened steel on transmission parts so all in all ur transmission will go out.I have owned gm cars my whole life but will never buy one again. My dad was looking to buy a new chevy truck.but with poor support from gm and not wanting to recall an obvious problem he has decided he will no longer buy gm vehicles of any kind.maybe if they wold recall there junk transmissions they would have more sales.But obviously they don't care about there customers
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