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Originally Posted by murderotica
The Malibu is a POS from my experience. Comes in just behind the Dodge/Plymouth Neon.
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Seconded. At least with the Neon you can actually reach parts under the hood. It seems like GMC has decided the way to sell cars is to now make them as frustrating to repair as possible. Just look where they put the battery in Luminas. Fords may break, but at least they are easy to work on
unless its a 4.6 V8... The only way to remove the engine or even the heads on one of those in a car (not truck) is to lift the entire car about 4 feet, remove everything, and drop it from the bottom. It books at like 8 hours just to remove it..
If you take care of the malibu though, it will last. Proper maintenance is a must on them. Your biggest problem will be cooling system leaks from gaskets. (unless they have updated either the gaskets or dex-cool since i did this professionally 8 years ago) I live in an area where the temp can go from 80 to 30 in a day sometimes, and that may have had some relation, idk.