2009 Malibu

Yahoo has the 09 model with the 4cyl and 6speed tranny, V6 optional on the LTZ???
http://autos.yahoo.com/chevrolet_malibu_ltz/

What other options will be available for the 2009 Chevy Malibu?

What other options will be available for the 2009 Chevy Malibu?

Courtesy of GMInsideNews.com.
http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f39/2009-chevrolet-cars-official-changes-63142/

Bluetooth and silver ice.nice

Courtesy of GMInsideNews.com.
http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f39/2009-chevrolet-cars-official-changes-63142/

Yea I missed that thread thanks.

Malibu
Deletions
(15U) Sandstone Metallic exterior color
(40U) White exterior color
(53U) Amber Bronze Metallic exterior color
(67U) Silverstone Metallic exterior color
(JF4) Power-adjustable pedals
(QPE) P215/60R16 touring blackwall tires
(NZ6) 16" fascia spoke painted Sterling Silver wheels
Front side marker lamps

New Features
(17U) Silver Ice Metallic exterior color

(50U) Summit White exterior color

(51U) Gold Mist Metallic exterior color

(92U) Silver Moss Metallic exterior color

(UPF) Bluetooth for phone, personal cell phone connectivity to vehicle audio system and HMI (Human Machine Interface)
(QGG) P215/55R17 touring, blackwall tires

Changes
(PDC) Power Convenience Package now includes (AG1) driver 6-way power seat adjuster, (AP3) remote vehicle starter system and (UPF) Bluetooth for phone
(P22) 17" fascia spoke, painted sterling silver wheels are now standard on LS and 1LT models
(FX3) StabiliTrak stability control system with brake assist and Traction Control is now standard on all models
(LE5) 2.4L DOHC 4-cylinder engine is now standard on LTZ
(MH8) 6-speed automatic transmission is now available on 1LT and standard on 2LT and LTZ
(PDQ) HFV6 Engine Package is now available on LTZ and includes (LY7) 3.6L V6 SFI engine, (MH2) 6-speed automatic transmission, dual chrome exhaust tips and (NVH) hydraulic power steering (HPS)

http://eogld.ecomm.gm.com/NASApp/dom...D=6629&type=0#

Malibu Hybrid
Deletions
(15U) Sandstone Metallic exterior color
(40U) White exterior color
(67U) Silverstone Metallic exterior color
(JF4) Power-adjustable pedals
(QPE) P215/60R16 touring blackwall tires
(QD1) 16" flangeless aluminum wheels
Front side marker lamps

New Features
(17U) Silver Ice Metallic exterior color

(50U) Summit White exterior color

(51U) Gold Mist Metallic exterior color

(78U) Golden Pewter Metallic exterior color
(92U) Silver Moss Metallic exterior color

(PFE) 17" ultra bright aluminum wheels

(QGG) P215/55R17 touring, blackwall tires
(K05) Engine block heater

http://eogld.ecomm.gm.com/NASApp/dom...D=6630&type=0#

Well, I guess there is no reason to wait for an 09 since they won't be offering a sport red color. Ugh.

Great....I have a "collectable" in Sandstone metallic..............;)

Well, I guess there is no reason to wait for an 09 since they won't be offering a sport red color. Ugh.

Not to mention the fact that you'll lose the adjustable pedals (if you care for those). Sport red's a pretty color though- that was what my Avalanche was.

Not to mention the fact that you'll lose the adjustable pedals (if you care for those). Sport red's a pretty color though- that was what my Avalanche was.

That was the color I wanted, but ended up getting a black Avalanche because of what was in stock.

2009 pricing must be just around the corner...

I'm antsy and I've been keeping an eye on Dealerworld for pricing details. As of today, they've uploaded pricing for the 2009 Aveo and Colorado. A few days ago there were no 2009 models listed. Hopefully the Malibu pricing will be available soon.

Wow, I'm officially a nerd.

Geesh, I can't stand it....It is such a tease, everyday a little more information.

Why did they get rid of the power adjustable pedals? These were a great feature.

Why did they get rid of the power adjustable pedals? These were a great feature.

I agree, I hope this doesn't mean the telescoping steering wheel function is gone also. :(

Power Pedals are not a huge loss to me, although they would have been nice.

http://media.gm.com/us/chevrolet/en/product_services/r_cars/r_c_malibu/09index.html

Wow! Check this out:

Highway mileage increases to 33 mpg with the 6T40 six-speed automatic that is standard in LTZ and 2LT models; and available on 1LT.

Wow! Check this out:

Highway mileage increases to 33 mpg with the 6T40 six-speed automatic that is standard in LTZ and 2LT models; and available on 1LT.

So how is it supposed to be getting 33mpg hwy now? Its not the same tranny used in the 4cylinder 6 speed LTZ's currently out? Is this a typo or have they changed something in the 2009 model?

I agree, I hope this doesn't mean the telescoping steering wheel function is gone also. :(

Power Pedals are not a huge loss to me, although they would have been nice.

I'm so glad I have an 08. I'm a tall guy and I want them as far away from me as possible. I also love having the side marker that disappeared as well.

http://media.gm.com/us/chevrolet/en/product_services/r_cars/r_c_malibu/09index.html

In that pic you can clearly see there is no side marker on the front quarterpanel.

Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBee60
http://media.gm.com/us/chevrolet/en/...u/09index.html

"In that pic you can clearly see there is no side marker on the front quarterpanel."

I think we found where that extra mpg is coming from on the 2009's!

So how is it supposed to be getting 33mpg hwy now? Its not the same tranny used in the 4cylinder 6 speed LTZ's currently out? Is this a typo or have they changed something in the 2009 model?

They are referring to the MPG increasing from 30 MPG to 33 MPG in the 4 cylinder model by using a 6 speed as opposed to 4 speed.

So how is it supposed to be getting 33mpg hwy now? Its not the same tranny used in the 4cylinder 6 speed LTZ's currently out? Is this a typo or have they changed something in the 2009 model?

I wondered the same thing the first time I heard that they would offer that combination in '09. My guess would be that since the 4cyl LTZ was a late arrival, they either didn't want to or didn't bother to get EPA estimates, and just decided to wait for the '09 model.

Either way, if that is actual number, once all other info starts rolling out, it is pretty impressive. Interesting though that the city MPG stays the same but they could squeeze 3 extra MPG highway?

FYI everyone, I recently got 31.8mpg on the highway in a V6 LTZ cruising over flat roads with no traffic with the cruise control locked in at 70mph.

FYI everyone, I recently got 31.8mpg on the highway in a V6 LTZ cruising over flat roads with no traffic with the cruise control locked in at 70mph.

Did the car need to go through a break-in period before it got such high mileage?

Did the car need to go through a break-in period before it got such high mileage?

I've only got 1200 miles on the car. It's only 6 weeks old :)

Edit: I also run Mobil 1 Extended Service Oil. Has double the amount of sythetics of the regular Mobil 1. It's what my race car driving cousin uses in all of his race cars, and its the only oil that my family uses in our regular cars. My dad picked up 2mpg in his Explorer by using it.

Went and test drove a 4 cylinder 6 speed LTZ last night and loved it. Sticker rates it at 22 city 32 hwy.

I want the car but since there are no incentives for leasing it I will just wait for the 2009's to come out with the bluetooth and the new 4 cyl 6 speed transmission in the 2LT's. I kind of like the all black interior better than the 2 tone on the LTZ.

Went and test drove a 4 cylinder 6 speed LTZ last night and loved it. Sticker rates it at 22 city 32 hwy.

I want the car but since there are no incentives for leasing it I will just wait for the 2009's to come out with the bluetooth and the new 4 cyl 6 speed transmission in the 2LT's. I kind of like the all black interior better than the 2 tone on the LTZ.

Were you the couple I saw at Fox Chevrolet?

WOW - been in China for a week and look at all the new information. I will have to call my dealer on Monday and find out what they know about the 09's also.

Thanks for all the great info.

I've only got 1200 miles on the car. It's only 6 weeks old :)

Edit: I also run Mobil 1 Extended Service Oil. Has double the amount of sythetics of the regular Mobil 1. It's what my race car driving cousin uses in all of his race cars, and its the only oil that my family uses in our regular cars. My dad picked up 2mpg in his Explorer by using it.

Impressive, I hear most new car owners need to drive several thousand miles before their fuel economy begins to pick up. I had no idea certain oils have a longer live, I guess you change your own oil?

Were you the couple I saw at Fox Chevrolet?

No, I went up to Buff Whelan just to check things out by myself. Almost went to Fox but Buff is closer

Impressive, I hear most new car owners need to drive several thousand miles before their fuel economy begins to pick up. I had no idea certain oils have a longer live, I guess you change your own oil?

No, I have the dealer do it.

I bring in the oil and the K&N 1017 oil filter and my dealer does the rest for $5 labor. $5 is easily worth the cost of not getting dirty under the car and then having to worry about disposing the oil.

Edit: BTW, even though the oil is rated for 15,000 miles, I still change it every 3000 miles. It's not cheap, but at walmart, I can get 6 quarts for around $32.

FYI everyone, I recently got 31.8mpg on the highway in a V6 LTZ cruising over flat roads with no traffic with the cruise control locked in at 70mph.

I just turned ~2,450 miles on my XR.....I haven't reset my MPG AVG since I've had the car.

When I picked it up, the car had 40 miles on it (dealer traded) & only 14.7 MPG AVG.

Like I said, I never reset it but now I'm only at 23.3 MPG AVG & that's where it's been. I baby the heck out of this car too, because I know that if you punch it....it'll suck down the gas REAL quick

That's like 50 city/50 highway I'd say

Why did they get rid of the power adjustable pedals? These were a great feature.

That's one of my peeves as well. One of the main reasons for us looking at this car for my mom was due to the power pedals(she's 5' even).

But, when we tried to find an '08, we had a tough time as it was close to the end of the '08 model year, so we ended up ordering an '09 before I knew that the pedals were deleted for '09.

Mine is an '09 and I love the bluetooth. I do wish it had the side marker lights.

I heard somewhere (Sorry, forgot the link) the reason the side lamps were deleted and power pedals removed was because the car's wiring couldn't handle the Bluetooth, the Side Lamps, and power pedals. Just what I heard, not proven.

However I know that Epsilon I is limited in what it can do since GM cheaped out on it's development. Explains why we can't get a rear armrest or navigation system. Still they did an excellent job with so little they had to work with.

To be honest, I'm glad I got the '08 LTZ.

To me, it just seems slightly better, I'm not liking the changes :]

To be honest, I'm glad I got the '08 LTZ.

Agreed. I've been very happy with my '08 LTZ. I think the side repeater lamps are a nice feature--especially when attempting lane changes in traffic and on the expressway. I feel safer knowing they're there (not to mention that they just look cool!).

BTW, does anyone know how one would go about replacing the lamps in them?

I have the 08' LS model and i'm so glad they got rid of the 16" wheels. They should have came with 17"s or 18"s anyway.

I have the 08' LS model and i'm so glad they got rid of the 16" wheels. They should have came with 17"s or 18"s anyway.

Yes, SO much better, and now what should have been all the time--as the fleet LS V6 models had these silver painted 1LT wheels from the start. The 16" wheels never looked right, but nice improvement now.

I heard somewhere (Sorry, forgot the link) the reason the side lamps were deleted and power pedals removed was because the car's wiring couldn't handle the Bluetooth, the Side Lamps, and power pedals. Just what I heard, not proven.

However I know that Epsilon I is limited in what it can do since GM cheaped out on it's development. Explains why we can't get a rear armrest or navigation system. Still they did an excellent job with so little they had to work with.

Other than that being a joke someone made snidely...so not true. Bluetooth has nothing to do with anything, as it's just another feature in the Onstar sytem. And the side lamps and power pedals are also nada with issues.

The reason the side markers and power pedals went away was to of course save money on items GM believe not that many people truly cared about or noticed, AND in the case of the side markers so the Malibu didn't share yet another piece with the Aura. For 2009, the Aura has kept the side markers--and Saturn reps were proud of that vs. the Chevy apparently in dealer training for 2009's--while they're gone from the Malibu. Aside from the money thing (though, obviously, this is a cheap oh cheap trinket), it was a great little feature and should have stayed.

Why did they get rid of the power adjustable pedals? These were a great feature.

It's a good feature, but pointless once you think about it, especially if you're the primary driver. Adjust them once, never adjust them again...saves GM the money of installing them and knocks a few bucks off the MSRP.

It's a good feature, but pointless once you think about it, especially if you're the primary driver. Adjust them once, never adjust them again...saves GM the money of installing them and knocks a few bucks off the MSRP.
That makes a lot of sense. Never thought of it that way.

It's a good feature, but pointless once you think about it, especially if you're the primary driver. Adjust them once, never adjust them again...saves GM the money of installing them and knocks a few bucks off the MSRP.


Depends on if there's only one driver for the vehicle or not. A single-driver vehicle might very well have the pedals only moved once, but drivers of differing sizes would likely move them far more often.

I personally feel that adjustable pedals are a fantastic safety feature and should be looked as just as necessary as adjustable seats.

For instance, as is the case with my parents, my mom is quite short(5'0") and my father is about 5'7". My mom has a tough time reaching the pedals and has to adjust the seat almost all the way forward to reach them comfortably. As a result she is dangerously close to the airbag and could potentially be injured as a result. So, she could benefit from having pedals placed closer to the seat. Now, the pedals in that same position might allow my father to also drive the car comfortably(while understandably having to move the seat back), but the pedals are never located that close in a normal vehicle.

So, from primarily a safety standpoint, power pedals are a fantastic feature and are only pointless to those who are tall enough to reach the pedals normally.

It just seems such an unusual deletion to make considering how many more cars are including power pedals as the years go by and Chevy chose to offer them for only a single year on thier mainstream mid-size sedan. Quite a crappy move to make after wowing so many people with the car's other aspects over the past year or so.

I could see more owners using the feature more often if the Malibu offered a memory feature for the seat, mirror, and pedal settings. That's a feature I think is sorely lacking from the Malibu, particularly on the up-level versions. Two differently-sized regular drivers could easily have the seats, mirrors and pedals moved to their chosen settings by pushing a single button rather than having to move each seperately each time a new driver enters.

It's especially glaring to me considering that my mom's current 13yr old vehicle(an Oldsmobile soon to be replaced by an '09 LTZ) includes memory functions for the driver seat and mirrors. Did it suddenly become so much more cumbersome and expensive to offer in the ensuing 13yrs? Granted, it's not an Oldsmobile, but an LTZ Malibu offers every other feature her car has and more except for the memory.

Unfortunately, the lack of that feature likely helped to drive the deletion of the power pedals as well. That's quite an overlooked feature that I feel is quite necessary in a vehicle such as this with so many options for the driver.

I agree, my wife is very short and this feature allows her to set the seat back a more comfortable distance from the airbag and steering wheel. I feel the safety is enhanced by doing this. For me, this was a primary sales feature but I understand that for other it may not be.

It's a good feature, but pointless once you think about it, especially if you're the primary driver. Adjust them once, never adjust them again...saves GM the money of installing them and knocks a few bucks off the MSRP.

Have them on our 03 Tahoe. Never touched them other to play with them when we first bought the vehicle. My wife and I drive it and the pedals just don't need to move any. Played with the Malibu's pedals as well and set them at the original setting and haven't moved them since. Sort of a worthless option in my opinion. If it was separately orderable I wouldn't check it off in the order box.

Bill

Adjustable pedals are a necessity for my wife. In order to reach the pedals in our previous vehicles, she would be too close to the steering wheel. A real problem if the air bag should go off.

When we got the car I adjusted the pedals, and sense we have the same inseam, have not touched them again. To me it is a good option as we can fit the car to us.

We take advantage of them too, since my wife likes to be closer to the wheel. She slides the seat up, pedals as far away as possible. I like a bit more space (longer arms), so I slide the seat back, pedals toward me a little bit. A nice thing about the Av that I really liked was that the pedals were included in the seat memory settings. So when we used our keyfobs to unlock, the pedals, seat, and mirrors all went to our stored settings- no tweaking the controls on driver switches.

Why did they get rid of the power adjustable pedals? These were a great feature.
were there a lot of problems with the pedals?

were there a lot of problems with the pedals?

I doubt it, the new Malibu has been out for nearly a year and no one on this site has complained about the power pedals.

were there a lot of problems with the pedals?

I really think this was just a dealer blowing smoke to come up with a "reason".

Really, what it more likely is was a cost cut vs. a feature surveys/customers said truthfully wasn't used THAT much. It was a great feature, but with many drivers like my mother who never used it once in either her Suburban or the Malibu--"I wish it wasn't there, and I actually had another feature instead"--in the end, away it went.

Similar thing for the fender signals, as far as cost, though I also think differentiating it from the Aura played a factor too, as the Aura kept them for this year.

I am glad that I have the 08. I will say that I have not touched the power pedals and neither has my wife. I do like the side markers though and I am glad that I got the only year that has them.

I am glad that I have the 08. I will say that I have not touched the power pedals and neither has my wife. I do like the side markers though and I am glad that I got the only year that has them.

Happy with the 09 Malibu but I wish I have the adjustable pedals and the repeater...