2000 CHEVROLET VENTURE Complaints

JUST ANOTHER VENTURE WITH FAULTY INTAKE MANIFOLD GASKET. ALSO HAD SHORT IN FUSE TERMINAL BLOCK. LAST CHEVY I WILL OWN.*AK

PURCHASED A NEW CHEVY VENTURE VAN IN MAY OF 2000, AT 19,000 MILES IT THE INTAKE MANIFOLD GASKET NEEDED TO REPLACED. WORK WAS PERFORMED UNDER WARRANTY AT THE SAME DEALERSHIP. NOW AT 42,800 MILES, THE SAME GASKET IS LEAKING AGAIN. ALTHOUGH, I PURCHASED THE EXTENDED WARRANTY IN MAY 2000, THEY SAY SOMEONE CALLED & CANCELLED THE WARRANTY A YEAR AGO. HOW CAN THEY AVOID THE HUGE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS CONCERNING THIS PROBLEM WITH NO RECALLS? *JB

INTERMITTENTLY WINDSHIELD WIPERS BECOME INOPERABLE, OBSTRUCTING THE DRIVER'S VIEW. INDEPENDENT SHOP REPLACED THE MODULE AT CONSUMER'S EXPENSE OF $280.00. THE DEALERSHIP WAS NOTIFIED. *AK

PASSENGER SIDE POWER ASSIST SLIDING DOOR FELL OFF OF THE REAR SLIDING ROLLER GUIDE AFTER IT FROZE HALF OPEN/SHUT. THE DOOR HAS BEEN MAKING FUNNY SOUNDS WHEN OPENING AND CLOSING FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS. THE DOOR HAS ALSO BEEN OPENING BACK UP WHEN IT TRIES TO CLOSE. THE OUTER SLIDING TRACK HAS BENT SOMEHOW? I AM GUESSING IT IS PART OF THE NOISE THE DOOR HAS BEEN MAKING. AFTER DISASSEMBLY OF THE DOOR AND THE INTERIOR COMPARTMENT, IT WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE ACTUATOR CABLES MAKING MOST OF THE NOISE. THE PLASTIC LINER ON THE CABLES HAD BEEN STRIPPED OFF AND THE CABLES HAD BEEN BALLED UP AND THEY ARE STARTING TO FREY. I HAVE REBENT THE TRACK TO ACCEPT THE SLIDING ROLLERS AND I HAVE REMOVED THE CABLES FROM THE DOOR TO ALLOW THE DOOR TO OPEN AND CLOSE MANUALLY.

GAS GUAGE DOES NOT REGISTER UNLESS THE TANK IS TOTALLY FULL, THEN IT JUST DROPS DOWN TO EMPTY WHENEVER IT WANTS. I FEEL THAT THIS IS A SAFETY HAZARD DUE TO ENDING UP WITH AN EMPTY GAS TANK AT ANY TIME. THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN DO IS TRY TO KEEP TRACK OF MY MILES. THIS HAS ALSO HAPPENED TO A FRIEND OF OURS WHOM ALSO OWNS THE SAME BRAND OF VAN.*AK

I WAS THE ONLY OWNER OF A 2000 CHEVORLET VENTURE UNTIL TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN THE DOOR (SLIDING) FELL OFF FOR THE FOURTH TIME. BECAUSE GM REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BEYOND REPAIR IT FOR THE FOURT TIME FOR FREE, I TRADED IN THE VEHICLE. I WAS NOT AT ALL AMUSED THAT MY DAUGHTER FELL OUT THE DOOR AND COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. THANK GOD SHE WASN'T. THE VAN HAD BEEN FIXED THREE TIMES PREVIOUSLY FROM THE DOOR FALLING OFF. CHEVORLET COULD ONLY VERIFY ONE TIME THAT IT WAS REPAIRED BECAUSE THE DEALERS DID NOT ENTER THE REPAIR INTO THEIR COMPUTERS. I HAD ALL MY RECEIPTS SAYING WHAT WAS DONE TO THE VEHICLE IN HAND WRITTEN NOTICES. HOWEVER, CHEVORLET DID NOT BELIEVE ME AND CHOSE TO IGNOR THE PROBLEM. I AM VERY SORRY THAT SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD MIGHT GET HURT BECAUSE CHEVORLET IGNORED THE PROBLEM.*AK

IT STARTED THE SECOND WEEK OF JUNE ARE 2000 CHEVY VENTURE VAN POWER SLIDING DOOR STOP WORKING AND WAS IN THE LOCK POSITION AND COULD NOT BE UNLOCK EITHER BY POWER OR MANUALLY.I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND HAD TO PAY OVER 600.00 TO GET THAT REPAIRED. MY PROBLEM IS WHAT IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN AND I GET INTO A WRECK THERE WOULD BE NO WAY I COULD GET MY KIDS OUT OF CAR. SO IF YOU CAN HELP ME WITH THIS I WOULD APPERIATED IT. I THINK THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THEY COULD HAVE PAY FOR. THANKS. *AK

TRANSMISSION EXPERIENCED SOME SLIPPING AND SHOWED AN 1811 CODE ON THE COMPUTER. REQUIRED TRANSMISSION TO BE REBUILT AT A COST OF $2100 AT 63000 MILES. FOURTH GEAR WAS STRIPPED.*AK

WHILE DRIVING/PARKING FRONT MIDDLE SEAT BELT RETRACTOR WOULD NOT RETRACT BACK. DEALERSHIP WAS NOTIFIED, BUT DID NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEM. *AK

THE COOLANT LIGHT KEEPS COMING ON AND OFF. WE HAVE ADDED COOLANT THROUGHOUT THE WINTER AND THEN AGAIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO (JUNE 2004). WE BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFECT OR A LEAK. *JB