This model year has 198 processed complaint reports; ENGINE is the most frequently classified system at 29.8% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2020 CHEVROLET MALIBU
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents198
Reports with crash / fire flags10
Flagged-report share5.05%
Primary reported systemENGINE
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
ENGINE59 documented reports
29.8%POWER TRAIN58 documented reports
29.3%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM57 documented reports
28.8%SERVICE BRAKES49 documented reports
24.7%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED44 documented reports
22.2%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL18 documented reports
9.1%STEERING16 documented reports
8.1%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM14 documented reports
7.1%HYDRAULIC6 documented reports
3.0%FUEL SYSTEM4 documented reports
2.0%Show all 20 reported components
GASOLINE4 documented reports
2.0%AIR BAGS4 documented reports
2.0%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING3 documented reports
1.5%FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE2 documented reports
1.0%SUSPENSION2 documented reports
1.0%STRUCTURE2 documented reports
1.0%ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)2 documented reports
1.0%EXTERIOR LIGHTING1 documented reports
0.5%TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM1 documented reports
0.5%AIR1 documented reports
0.5%What the data says
ENGINE is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 29.8% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2020 CHEVROLET MALIBU has 198 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
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