# Service bulletin PIP5551A

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10129869
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-03\-12
- Manufacturer's number: PIP5551A
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-02\-08
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:SOLENOID

## NHTSA's summary

This Preliminary information communicates to replace the valve body and solenoid body assemblies with both spacer plates for a DTC P2820concern if not able to clean the valve body or solenoid body assemblies.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10129869-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10129869-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Electrical system, Starter

## Vehicles listed

- 2017 to 2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PIP5598D](/bulletins/10227672.md), 2022-12-12, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY. This Preliminary information communicates the possibility of a crank no start or extended crank condition due to exhaust cam reluctor being out of position.
- [PIP5530](/bulletins/10123282.md), 2017-11-14, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY. This Preliminary information communicates the possibility for a internal E88 ECM issue that can cause numerous ECM related codes including dtc p0606 and the vehicle may crank and not start or not crank.
- [PIC6229](/bulletins/10119071.md), 2017-10-15, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY. This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician is bout vehicles that have a crank but engine does not start. Technician will find Diagnostic Trouble Code P0AFA. Technician will ensure to use published Service Information for any other Diagnostic Trouble Codes that are set in the vehicle. If Diagnostic Trouble Code P0AFA is the only Diagnostic Trouble Code set this could be caused by an internal fault in the high voltage battery, but it will also need to be replaced for this condition.

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