about six months after we bought the car it started to leak antifreeze.well my father in law is a mechanic and found the problem to be the intake manifold gasket..surprise surprise.seems like GM used a poor quality gasket along with corrosive dexcool antifreeze and they still refuse to make a recall .this is why they are going into the toilet and also wanted to say their customer care is really horrible.well we changed the gasket,along with the spark plugs and wires,the drive belt,checked the fuel injectors and replaced the o rings on them,and basically did a tuneup on the car since we tore it down that far.we did some other things but i cant remember what.we flushed the antifreeze twice to get rid of all the old dexcool and filled her back up with prestone.well sometime later we also replaced the brake rotors and pads with NON GM EQUIPMENT.that was another complaint ive heard from malibu owners was the brake wear issue too early.well it turns out that under warranty GM would use the same awful pads and rotors that originally came on the car so people kept having the same pad and rotor problems until they either switched brands or went with a better quality parts.one more thing was wrong .it turned out to be the rear hydraulic motor mount that was starting to go bad so we changed that as well.the only other problems ive run into are in my last post.i think now of course i wish i wouldve bought something else,but since we are stuck with it,it will perform fine now and into the future.im all for American made goods but these companies better start coming out with better quality goods or all of our money is going to go to import manufacturers.