21V649000
SEAT BELTS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
An improperly secured seat belt retractor may not function properly in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
2020 CHEVROLET MALIBU
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 325 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints325
Complaints citing a crash16
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
- 59ENGINE
- 54ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 54POWER TRAIN
- 43UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 40SERVICE BRAKES
- 17VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 14FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 13STEERING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2020 CHEVROLET MALIBUs 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.