16V521000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
A vehicle stall increases the risk of a crash.
2016 CHEVROLET MALIBU HYBRID
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 46 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints46
Complaints citing a crash1
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 11ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 8ENGINE
- 8POWER TRAIN
- 6UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 4VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 3SERVICE BRAKES
- 2VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
- 1SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2016 CHEVROLET MALIBU HYBRIDs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.