This gen Malibu always felt half-assed to me. The competition is so strong (Accord and Mazda 6 especially), and GM thinks that they could sell this crap? It underperformed, had poor MPG ratings, and the back seat is TINY, especially compared to a Camry or Mazda 6.Just had the pleasure of driving Chevy Malibu LT for a week and was impressed!
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You should be fine. It's very common to roll over negative equity into a car loan.
Apart from the lack of space, and the poor mileage, it is a pretty good feature rich car... You can get a fully loaded LTZ Malibu under 30,000 miles for $18,000.. And regarding the mileage, it's only sips on the highway
Personally I wouldn't buy it new, but I'm considering buying CPO, I love my Chevy Cruze but I want something a bit bigger
Thanks guys, hopefully it's no biggie - they've done some pretty gnarly dings on the sharp fender creases of my wife's '12 Beetle and it comes out looking 1000% flawless every single time.
He was a little concerned about it being not so much on the crease but at the back of the hood where the metal folds over underneath, so he had me send some pics and I'm waiting to hear back. These guys are insane though, the've taken dents out that are a couple feet long with PDR. Check out some of the before and afters, some of those you would never, ever guess could be done as PDR, look at that explorer sport trac on page one or the roof of the 5 series on page 5, crazy
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He was a little concerned about it being not so much on the crease but at the back of the hood where the metal folds over underneath, so he had me send some pics and I'm waiting to hear back. These guys are insane though, the've taken dents out that are a couple feet long with PDR. Check out some of the before and afters, some of those you would never, ever guess could be done as PDR, look at that explorer sport trac on page one or the roof of the 5 series on page 5, crazy
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No big deal? It's an airbag light. More often than not, an airbag light means the airbag isn't functioning. A $60k BMW with no airbag? It needs to be fixed, not ignored.
You did what? Are you serious?
I thought you didn't believe in statistics? You can't have it both ways...
Cars don't just display codes as a fluke. They show them for a legitimate reason. (Unless you drive a Jaguar, but that's a separate topic)
Brb, gonna go yank some relays on my car to get rid of the CEL. It doesn't mean anything, right?
And there's a pretty good reason why they're so damn cheap. You can't see 30k mile Camrys or Accords losing their value that rapidly.
The Cruze is such a great car! One of the best GM products out there. The 2016 model seems like a huge step forward.
I think the Malibu is one of the last "Old-GM" models left in the lineup. The next-gen Malibu looks fantastic as well.
Oh my. They look like they know what they're doing!Holy hell! That BMW 5 series with the "deer dent" ... witchcraft.
That just assumes the person hitting you is moving slow though. Anything over 30-40mph is death and serious injuries can occur, especially when driving a car with atrocious safety ratings.
Here is a 33 second lesson on statistics:
True or False: MAF, MAP, and Cam sensors are considered electrical components?
Define major. It's not a problem until it doesn't work at all. You might get by with your car running, based on the mileage you put on your car gas mileage is negligible, but what about when your car sputters out from misinformation being relayed back to the timing system.
I would imagine redundancy is the simplest answer- so that if one fuse fails you still have an additional fan running. It should be no surprise an overheating engine is not good.
Power steering is a pneumatic system in your cars (and most up until recently). The AC runs off your serpentine belt, as I'm sure you know. Neither of these are electric. I'm just curious why you would unnecessarily yank fuses. I don't see a door chime as a problem unless you drive with your door open.
Not necessarily, air can potentially leak in without coolant leaking out. Especially with the head gasket where the pressure of the air coming in could be far greater than the cooling system pressure.
You have 3 general causes for surging coolant.
1) Overheating
2) Air in the system from improper filling of the coolant system
3) Air in the system from a leak
You have denied the existence or possibility of any of these issues. I guess you're right, the brake caliper must be the problem
. In that case, my airbag light must be caused by not closing my kitchen cabinet.
Do tell this, If the Malibu is not related to Korea, GM Daewoo, or GM Korea, why is it that the Malibu not only has the distinct Bowtie Daewoo Grille, but also has the headlight switch on the turn signal stalk like Korean cars do?Just had the pleasure of driving Chevy Malibu LT for a week and was impressed!
NOTE: THIS IS A GENERAL STATEMENT, NOT PARTICULARLLY TO THE MEMBER QUOTED.
I didn't say ignore I stated that is not a "oh I need pull over now and call a tow truck or I'll do severe damage to the car" urgent situation.
not sure what you mean.
I don't I go by personal or third-party experiences. But I simply stated that based on statistics, the way I drive (city streets, short trips), that having an airbag would just mean more injury and more work/expense for me to fix the car.
When you unplug the sensors they do. The MAP was unplugged to remove the intake sube and box when i did athe T-stat replacement in 2013. The MAF I unplugged just to see if the car ran differently.Cars don't just display codes as a fluke. They show them for a legitimate reason. (Unless you drive a Jaguar, but that's a separate topic)
Relay's wont clear the CEL, you pull the fuse for the ECU that will clear the CEL, Removing a battery cable will too.
Ah the irony in that statement, Considering the Cruze is a rebadged Daewoo
If i get hit in the side or the ass, airbags are worthless, plus as mentioned there is a image of a Lanos being rear ended, ran of the road and plowed head-on into a tree, no air bag deployment at all.
If the cam sensor don't work at all the car will either not start at all or will use the Crank Sensor. If the ECU sees a fault in the Cam Sensor it bypasses it and reads the Crank Sensor (According to 3 mechanics I called).
Cars will run perfectly fine without MAF or MAP sensors, the Air/Fuel mixture will just be at default values.
The engine never did overheat, In fact, after putting the "RAD CONTROL" Relay back in, The fans rarely run at all, just like normal.
When working on the car, the door chime gets real annoying real fast. If my door was open I'd know it my car is designed where the keys cannot be locked in so i dont need to be reminded to grab them.
Rad overheating maybe, not the engine though. Air in the system would me flucuating heat from the heater or flucuating engine tempatures, neither of which i have.
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Your car has a book value of around $1,200. If you're in an accident bad enough to deploy the airbag, there's going to be more than enough body damage to total your car even if the airbags don't blow.
It's actually closer to $2000. And I know that. But I'd still fix it up, the Airbags would just be more work. I also have the airbags disabled on the Impala too.
You are seriously underestimating the cost of body damage. Let's say it's $2,000, which I am still very skeptical of as KBB gave me s number much lower than that. My dad got clipped by another driver in his Mazda 3 by someone who wasn't looking when changing lanes. The only part damaged was the front fender. Little damage, no air bags deployed, car is still very much driveable and the repair estimate is $1,300. It would not take much to cause $2,000 in damage to your car.
Also remember that insurance companies total when damage is around 70% of your car's value. So it would only take $1,400 in damage to total your car. It doesn't make financial sense to spend more than the car's value to repair it. Plus it would have a salvage title, require extensive inspections to be legally registered, and have zero resale value because no one wants to buy a salvage car.
Ergo, you have nothing to gain financially by disabling the airbags.
I got pulled into an "argument" between two co-workers a few years back where one clipped the bumper on another's car. It was hard enough to pop the bumper up and crack a tail light. $700...
I was pulled into it because they have this crazy idea that I know something about cars(admittedly probably more than either of them, but still not much). I witnessed the "accident" where the one was backing out of a driveway and clipped the bumper hard enough that everyone heard it(it was at a professor's house), then got out, looked at it, and drove off. The one who'd done the damage was convinced that the estimate was too high.
My response was "He could have reported you for a hit and run-be glad that it was only $700, just pay it and let it go away."
Not to sidetrack to much, but my observation is that pretty much any sheetmetal body panel is $1K+. With a unibody car(which is pretty much every car being made today, and even some trucks) even a moderate impact can compromise the frame integrity and raise repair costs really high.
Granted my mom's Buick that was hit a few weeks ago had more damage than just a quarter panel-although the impact was almost exclusively there-but the preliminary estimate is $8K and that's without them actually getting too deep into it. There's still a lot of cushion there so totaling it is unlikely(I figure $17.5K as the totaled price), but I would be surprised if it actually comes out under $10K.
What? That's not a "Daewoo Grille," it's the corporate Chevy grill that's on pretty much every model. FYI, Daewoo isn't even a company anymore. GM Korean is the name.
Headlight switch on the stalk is not a Korean car thing. Why would you even think that? Toyota/Lexus/Honda/Acura, etc all have it thee.
You are aware that airbags are much more important around the city, short trips right? Imagine getting T-Boned at a stop light.
You just sound dumb at this point. Don't believe in airbags? More work for you? What expense? Are you kidding me?
You can't have it both ways. You can't choose to believe statistics at one time and not the other. That makes you ignorant.
You think that will fix the CEL on my BMW? The battery is under the front seat. Should I put the driver seat out of the car and pull the battery cable to clear the codes and CEL?
Airbags do deploy if you get hit from the side. They're called side curtain airbags....
If that car plowed head on into a tree and the airbag didn't go off, it's the POS car's fault.
There is a dealer in a nearby town that specifically sells salvage title vehicles. Insurance Companies will also total out a car if the air bags deploy (regardless if the damage exceeds 70% or not). Plus the fast you can't get body panels ANYWHERE but online or in bone yards, it could be atleast made drivable even for $1400. There is no inspections in Minnesota.
It may be a standard Grille thing, BUT you can tell when It's a Daewoo, For instance, you see the nose of a Cruze and automatically know it's a Cruze. You see the nose of a Aveo/Sonic and can identify it by that alone. Same with the spark. These particular Chevys have a grille that has a different design than all the non-Daewoo Chevys. The last and current-gen Malibu's also have this distinct grille which makes it confusing. Malibu's having this grill makes one mis-interpite it as a Cruze.
GMs have ALWAYS had the headlight switch as a pull-out knob on the dash. Notice how all the cars you mentioned are foreign? There ya go.
Airbags don't go off in T-Bone accidents.........
Hence why I mentioned the ECM fuse, assuming you can even find it. A Scan Tool would work too if you have one.
only SOME cars had those. Most of the cars in this era didn't. It never became a standard thing until 2006 or so.
https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/forms-documents/documents/salvageandbranding_just_the_facts.pdf
"A salvage vehicle inspection is required to clear the salvage status of a vehicle. A DVS Inspection Specialist conducts the inspection."
I don't think you realize that Daewoo is essentially a manufacturing plant for GM. That's it. They designed the chassis of the Sonic and Cruze. That's the frame, body panels, and maybe parts of the suspension. That's where it ends. Think no further. They don't do the engine, transmission, or electrical design. I doubt they even do the styling of the car. I imagine aesthetic design is mostly consolidated to a universal design team so that all their cars match appropriately.
GM uses parts across all it's lineups. If you can save 25 cents by using the same grill on 3 different cars with 5 different badge names and you sell 1 million cars, you've saved $250,000. Do that times 300 parts and figure out how much money you start saving. GM probably uses 2 different turn-signal stalks between 100 model cars. Headlight switches on the stalks is not an original concept, I'd say more cars have them there these days than don't
GM builds these cars in Korea because the labor so much cheaper than the US. They bought Daewoo's factories (back from themselves, essentially, since GM owned a large portion of Daewoo before they bought themselves out and crashed). The Daewoo name is sold in Korea because of its brand recognition. Just like GM sells Holdens in Australia. No one would know what a Holden is in the US if they threw up a dealer.
That's the point of statistics. First hand knowledge is not significant data unless compared with others experiences. Knowing this information you can make predictions. From predictions you assume numbers that represent things like risk. You can't make an accurate prediction off of your own experience that hasn't occurred yet with the same controlled parameters.
Let's pretend you're sick with condition X. Untreated 90 out of 100 people die. Treated with a drug 0/100 die from the disease, but 10 die from the side effect of the medication (so basically 10 out of 100 die). What would you do- take the drug and risk a 1/10 chance of dying or not take the drug and have a 9/10 chance of dying? Or will you just listen to your grandpa's advice that Mr. Jenkins' died taking the medication?
What is your preoccupation with the word "ass"? If you get hit in the "ass" your front airbags will not deploy. The airbags probably didn't deploy because there was something wrong with them. Par for the course it seems... especially considering the recall they have out on them. Please show me the information that says the airbag did not have a fault and that the recall was preformed.
You get 27mpg. I get 25, have 2 extra cylinders, 200 more hp, and all wheel drive. Something doesn't sound right here. Your car isn't running as efficiently as it should be. The fact that they're indicating warnings means there is a problem. That means an electrical issue. Otherwise why have have an OBD system?
Someone sent me a video about your recent car repair you posted. It said you let the coolant overflow so it will stop surging out of the reservoir? Is this true? Wouldn't this mean you have low coolant?
Don't keep your keys in the ignition then?
How does the radiator overheat without the engine overheating? They're in same system bro... The coolant takes heat from the engine and sends it to the radiator to dissipate. Coolant is taking that heat. There is no such thing as just a radiator overheating.
That would mean there is air in your system.
Well its just about the same level of logic. It doesn't seem to have solved your issue either. Letting coolant leak out so it doesn't overflow is like draining oil so you don't have an oil leak.
I've changed my mind, the fact this car is still "running" (debatable term at this point and I surrender) despite what has been/is being/has not been done to it a testament for its durability and resilience. Long live Daewoo.
No one is interpreting anything. It's you that has this Daewoo junk in your head.
Not really no. The Chevy Cobalt, Cavalier, etc have them on the stalk.
Nope. That is incorrect. They do go off in T-Bone accidents. That's precisely why they're there.
How do I find the ECM fuse? Where would it be?
What's a scan tool? I tried plugging my laptop into the USB port in the car, but nothing popped up. What do I scan exactly?
I really want to clear this CEL. I'm considering taking apart the dash and pulling the bulbs too!
Pulling a fuse/disconnecting the battery does not clear a fault code on a BMW. Honestly, if you keep resetting it and it keeps coming back, it is indicative of a problem. That's why the system is there in the first place.
No, only Daewoo have it on the stalk. Anyone else who does has copied them.
Woah, Woah, Woah, who ever said anything about side airbags. This is too sophisticated.
Hmm... did you go into the Finder? It should show up as iBMW as a device. Otherwise it show up in iTunes as a device. Just go into the settings tab and hit restore, just like an iPod/iPhone. You can try to use pocket PC and then go into windows explorer and then the My BMW folder and run the diagnostic program (after you do a defrag from the control panel of course). When it finishes press the reset button. If you have any problems just ask Clippy-
That's the best solution. No lights, no problems. Out of site out of mind.
Glad to see the totaled minivan had the fake antlers on it. Those are the Yuletide equivalent of truck nuts. Hate them.No one is interpreting anything. It's you that has this Daewoo junk in your head.
Not really no. The Chevy Cobalt, Cavalier, etc have them on the stalk.
Nope. That is incorrect. They do go off in T-Bone accidents. That's precisely why they're there.
How do I find the ECM fuse? Where would it be?
What's a scan tool? I tried plugging my laptop into the USB port in the car, but nothing popped up. What do I scan exactly?
I really want to clear this CEL. I'm considering taking apart the dash and pulling the bulbs too!