Chevrolet Venture — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 6,054 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine696 (11.5%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1998.
• Body & structure530 (8.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1997–2001.
• Electrical system522 (8.6%)
• Lights508 (8.4%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1997–2003.
• Fuel system448 (7.4%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 1997–2005.
• Brakes406 (6.7%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1997–1998.

Other / uncategorized: 102 classifications (1.7%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (4,666 records, model years 1997–2005) are most frequently classified under: engine, body & structure and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (62 records, model years 1997–2005) are most frequently classified under: seat belts, air bags (restraint system) and steering.
• Manufacturer communications (3,723 records, model years 1997–2005) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 2,164reports included a mileage
• 71,505average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1997 553 records for 1997 553
2. 1998 525 records for 1998 525
3. 1999 456 records for 1999 456
4. 2000 678 records for 2000 678
5. 2001 633 records for 2001 633
6. 2002 670 records for 2002 670
7. 2003 668 records for 2003 668
8. 2004 607 records for 2004 607
9. 2005 564 records for 2005 564

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 284mention a crash
• 74mention a fire
• 510mention an injury
• 20mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 89
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 3,723
• Investigations NHTSA 43
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 62
• Owner complaints NHTSA 4,666

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0442 in 30 records · 2000–2005
• P0742 in 20 records · 2001–2005
• P0741 in 16 records · 2001–2005
• P0757 in 16 records · 2001–2005
• P0716 in 9 records · 2000–2004
• P0756 in 6 records · 2001–2004
• P0730 in 4 records · 2001–2004
• P1811 in 4 records · 1999–2002
• P0530 in 3 records · 2001–2003
• P2138 in 2 records · 2005–2005
• B0100 in 1 record · 2004–2004
• B0101 in 1 record · 2004–2004

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.