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My gf just got her brand spankin' new Malibu 2 months ago with about 100 miles on it. The other day she was driving to work and the coolant light came on. She got it off the highway, and it died at a stop sign and wouldn't start again. It was also making clanking sounds before it died.

The tow truck shows up and takes it to a local Chevy dealer. I meet her there, pop the hood, find that the motor is still throwing off crazy heat, and see that the coolant reservoir is bone dry. The dealer calls the next day and asks what happened.. I told them it happened pretty much instantaneously (which it pretty much did). They proceed to tell me that the oil filter was twisted, indicative of insane pressure within the engine. I'm thinking it had to be a blown head gasket since there was no evidence of a problem before this day, and any kind of slow leak would have given some warning. Obviously, the engine is toast. They are in the process of tearing it down to find out what the root cause was. At this point, I am going to accept nothing less than a brand new engine right out of the crate, because there is no way they're going to be able to put a band-aid on something that overheated that badly. It is the Ecotec I4.

I stick my neck out and speak in GM's favor, and this goes and happens. It really is sad, because it is a beautiful car.