1999 Chevrolet Malibu from North America - Comments

Nothing on this car failed.

We bought this car new. Beyond normal maintenance items, it needed nothing for the 71,000 miles that we kept it to 1993. The front brake pads lasted 65,000 miles and it needed new tires around that time. It was the most reliable car of approximately 17, mostly new cars, that we owned to that point although it was nice to know that Chevrolet dealers are everywhere in the US.

It should be noted that the tire rotation schedule per the owner's manual must be adhered to or else the low aspect ratio tires (215/60R15) will flat-spot and become noisy. Rotating the tires will not correct the flat-spotting with consequent noise even after several thousand miles as is more likely to happen with higher aspect ratio tires.

We liked the car so well that we traded it for a new, almost identical 2003 Malibu.

It's a 1999 model.. How did you keep it to "1993"?

I apologize, typo, it was kept to 2003.

So if this car was so great, why did you trade it for a newer model. You should have just kept the old one and continued driving it. Now all the problems you didn't have are going to start on the new car.