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Chevrolet Malibu 2003technical service bulletin

Bulletin 021903 · NHTSA communication 10002560 · issued Feb 19, 2003

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2003
model years
3
vehicle entries

Official summary

Engineering would like to inspect any vehicle before the actual repair is performed when the repair diagnosis leads to replacing the body control module (bcm), for battery drain, intermittent no start, ipc display intermittently interrupted, or unable to reprogram the bcm. *tt

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.