6.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
171,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. not sure (1 reports)
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problem #1

Nov 012015

Malibu LS 3.5L V6

  • Automatic transmission
  • 171,000 miles

This thing leaks so much oil, it's self-changing!

Also, the oil dipstick is hard to read, which makes the problem worse. I have yet to figure out how to get any meaningful oil dipstick reading, because it seems to be completely random in how high up it reads.

- Alex I., Wadesville, IN, US