Incident has happened twice while driving on highway. engine light came on, then received an error message of "engine power reduced". engine power and acceleration was reduced dramatically. luckily there were no cars behind me or i may have been rear ended and involved in an accident. i pulled off on shoulder and turned car off and then turned car back on and engine power and acceleration was restored. engine light remained on though.
When driving the vehicle, a warning will randomly appear saying 'reduced engine power' and will reduce speed to about 20mph and will not accelerate any faster.
Engine power reduced while driving. three times. 2/9/20, 1/24/20, 12/8/19
When driving the vehicle first the engine light came on and i got a diagnostics it was the mass air flow sensor code coming up. i had the thotle cleaned.... the engine light went off 2 daya later. then i was driving on the hwy and the engine light came on along with the message engine reduce power. i pulled over shut the car off for 10 seconds , start it again and drive it. it does it on a daily now. and im tired of it this is a brand new car. i got it at 28,000 miles it is now at 53,000 miles. chevrolet know that this problem is going on with many of the mailibus they need to fix it. i just spent 1,100 on this car for the repairs
I was driving on the highway, speed limit was 70mph i was going that speed then out of nowhere i got the check engine light and a notice on my dash appeared as 'engine power reduced' and my speed drastically declined i was almost rear ended by a semi truck, i had people in the back of my car and with an impact from a trailer we could have been seriously hurt or even killed. this a reoccurring proble with malibu's from the year 2016-2019 gm knows about the issue but has done nothing to resolve it. this issue not only puts the driver of the vehicle in harm but others around as well. the problem is the throttle body response sensor which is about a $300-$500 fix which is not an cheap fix. they need to be held responsible for this because one day this could happen to anybody with this type of car and it can kill someone.
With under 10k miles on this car, we drove an hour to a baseball game, then found when we started it back up, it was on reduced power. turned out to be the throttle body that had to be replaced. today, with under 17k miles, my wife was picking the children up from school, and it lost power and said "reduced engine power" again. if this would have happened on the highway, it could have caused an accident.
My 2016 chevy malibu completely lost power twice on 2/6/2020. the engine shut completely down. the first incident happened while waiting in the pick up line at my daughters school which is in a parking lot full of kids. the car just shut completely down while in drive. it actually died. no instrument panel on, no radio on, no heat. i had to put the car in park and then push the pedal along with the push to start button to restart the car. the second incident happened about 15 to 20 minutes later while i was stopped at a traffic light. once again the car was in drive and just completely shut down. the same thing happened as the first incident but this time i am in heavy traffic during the time when kid's are released from school and people in general are moving around the city. all of this happened during a heavy snow here in my state. for a person driving up behind me i'm sitting there with no lights on at a now green traffic light in unsafe weather conditions. vehicles were blowing and going around us to avoid an accident. i had to act ...
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 chevrolet malibu. the contact stated that while driving approximately 50 mph the vehicle lost motive power and stalled. the contact pulled over to the side of the road and restarted the vehicle. the contact also noted that the vehicle experienced the failure for approximately six months. the vehicle was taken to coughlin chevrolet of pataskala, 9000 e broad st sw, pataskala, oh 43062, where it was determined that the rocker arm solenoid valve was defective and needed replacement however, the parts were not available to repair the vehicle. the vehicle was not repaired. the manufacturer was notified of the failure. the approximate failure mileage was 83,000. *dt*jb
When driving down a highway to drop off kid at school, the car sometimes slows down on its own and a message comes on stating engine power reduced. at 6:30 am in the morning when it's still dark, this is going to cause a car crash sooner or later. but dealer says there is no recall.
I bought my 2017 malibu in july of 2019 from a chevy dealership. since i've bought it my car has rapidly slowed down with now warning and my dashboard reading engine power reduced. it's happened 5 times since i got the car one being i was on the highway and almost got hit by a semi on my way to work in morning traffic. i looked up this issue to see what could be causing it and turns out other 2016-2018 malibu's have the same issues. i took it to autozone for a diagnosis and it's the throttle pedal position being farther apart than allowed. the dealership is charging me $200 to fix the issue and i have only had this car for 6 months.