Other fuel system problem on the 2000 Chevrolet Malibu
2 fires 2 of the 17 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other fuel system problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Chevrolet Malibu report other fuel system problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles, from 11 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 135,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 108,464 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
27% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28,536 miles | 37,863 miles | 57,500 miles | 101,500 miles | 137,000 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,200 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 155,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 67; the 2000 has 17. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
My 2000 malibu/4dr sedan would stop running while driving down the road. There would be no warning it would just stop. This cause all the power to stop working(steering,brakes). Taking the car to a gm dealer shop for repair, they connected the test equipment up and said they found no codes. I instructed them to take the car on a road test, when they did this the car stopped on them also. After researching this problem they found a tech bulletin(ref:replacement of fuel pickup screen and filter). After this repair the car now runs fine. It has 45725 miles at the time of trouble. *nm
I am the owner of a chevrolet malibu. This car is very dangerous and should be recalled. The car will shut off when driving speeds of 55 or more. I have had nothing but problems since I purchased this car. First, it was the intake manifold gasket. Second, it was something wrong with the fuel system. Third, the car quit on me and my daughter when we were driving on the express way going 60 miles per hour. We could have killed ourselves and someone else. *jb
Tl*the contact owns a 2000 chevrolet malibu. The contact stated that she has had to replace the vehicle's fuel filter on several occasions. The first time was shortly after the vehicle was purchased. The most recent fuel filter change was on june 20, 2007 and it now has to be replaced again on july 17, 2007. There is a safety recall on the fuel filter, but she does not know if it applies to her VIN. The purchase date and recall number were unknown. The current mileage is 120,000 and failure mileage was 30,000.
Also reported on the 2000 Chevrolet Malibu
Tail light, brake light or signal failure
Other brake problem
Premature brake pad or rotor wear
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Other lighting problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 17 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other fuel system problem happen on the 2000 Chevrolet Malibu?
Across 11 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other fuel system problem on the 2000 Chevrolet Malibu?
17 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed