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2009 Chevrolet Impala engine and engine cooling problems

21 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the engine and engine cooling on the 2009 Chevrolet Impala3% of all complaints for this model year.

21
Engine and Engine Cooling complaints
3%
share of all complaints
70,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
1 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • The service engine light goes on intermittently. Sometimes stays off for up to a week and then comes back on. Took it to chevy dealership and was told the module for the driver's side air bag needs to be replaced at a cost to me of $730- how can something like this happen when there has been no…

    filed Jun 19, 2015

  • The traction control sudden went off - traction control light on and service engine light both on - first time of really cold weather/rain snow. Did it one more time and then traction control light is off and service engine is on - I see that this is a huge problem with the impala and extremely…

    filed Dec 8, 2014

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.