1998 Chevrolet Venture lights problems

Filed Mar 18, 2009 · Lights, Transmission · 130,000 miles · IL · fire

Tl*the contact owns a 1998 chevrolet venture. The contact shifted the gear into park and shut off the vehicle. The vehicle rolled away while she was assisting a child with exiting the vehicle. The contact ran to jump into the vehicle and noticed that the gear shifter was very unstable and had a lot of "play" or wiggle. She depressed the brake pedal and the vehicle came to a stop. Prior to this failure, the tail lights failed in february of 2007. At that time, she was informed that she needed new circuit boards. Within a year, the failures recurred. The circuit boards burned out and the dealer stated that the plug for the boards was burned out as well, which would cause the failures to continue. The failure mileage was 130,000 and current mileage was 168,000.

Filed Aug 15, 2007 · Lights · TN

Drivers side brake light. It keeps burning out the bulbs. It melts the plastic around the metal line, the part that it plugs into. I have talked to other people that has the same problem.

Filed Aug 14, 2007 · Lights · MN

1998 chevrolet venture headlight assembly. Constant condensation/moisture inside drive and passenger side units causing a foggy or burned effect and rendering headlights virtually useless. After many years, I've noticed many different model years of the venture and its oldsmobile cousin have the same problem. The headlight assembly should be replaced, at no charge, form the auto maker.

Filed Nov 30, 2006 · Lights · OH

My headlight lenses have fallen off on three separate occasions. This is clearly a faulty design as the lenses are merely glued on the front of the headlight assembly. Because of the glue wearing away on the headlight cover, water gets into the assembly and causes the halogen lights to short out. This to me is a very serious problem. I think that the manufacturer should admit to this and recall the vans and replace with a new design. Why does it always take someone's death and a lawsuit to get something taken care of. I have had to replace the lights three times. The last time I put duct tape around the outside of the lenses to keep them on. Why should I have to do that???

Filed Dec 20, 2005 · Lights · 93,000 miles · CO

I own a 1998 chevy venture minivan and on the date specified I was out with my family ( a snowy evening) when I went to apply the brakes and my turn signals on my dash went to a solid green. As I approached the red light a person in the car next to me advised me that I had no taillights. After getting home I did some research on the internet and found that this is a widespread problem where if moisture gets into the connector on the brake light assembly, it will cause the ground connector to short out and cause the brake lights to do some crazy things as well as the cruise control to disengage at certain times.

Filed Nov 14, 2005 · Lights · 130,000 miles · CA

Dt: the contact stated that the right front headlight lens came off three times and the left once. They replaced the entire head lamp twice on the right side. The problem occurred again.

Filed Nov 10, 2005 · Lights · 62,000 miles · IL

Dt: the contact states when applying the brakes both headlights separated from the vehicle. He replaced the headlights in the vehicle. The vehicle has not been inspected to determine why this happened. He has not contacted the manufacturer. *ak updated 11/30/05.

Filed Mar 25, 2005 · Engine, Lights · 52,000 miles · RI

The 1997-2000 venutures have problems with the engines, the intake gasket breaks down causing anti freeze to mix with the engines oil causing the cam shaft to crack, in our case there was no leaks under the van and there was no warning either the van was running well that morning and when my wife was driving down the street there was 2 short bukles from the van and everything shut down including steering which was difficult to do, is it going to take someones family to die on the side of the road before gm will do anything about this if my wife had been on the highway then there would be no way that she would have made it without being hit, even then she had 3 young children in the van ages 3-8 and was almost hit from behind, because it was an industrial highway speed limit of 50mph and not much room on the shoulder to park. There are many complaints about these vans and yet no one seems to be doing anything. This website has complaint after complaint, www. Complaints.com and www.gm-v6lemons.com has hundreds of complaints along with other websites of people experancing the same problem. How many people have to die before anything is done? Gm doesn't seem to care even though their dealerships have stated their is a problem with the engines. Engine shut off and failure are serious problems .

Filed Jan 22, 2005 · Engine, Lights · GA

Water build up into the front head lights and water build up in the engine. Had to replace lights and engine after lights were replaced we had to drill a hold below the light covers so that water build up can drain from hole. Had to replace the engine.

Filed Aug 29, 2004 · Lights · 75,000 miles · MN

In feb./march 2004, right headlight assembly lens fell off, exposing lamp to weather. In july 2004, left headlight lens fell off. We had to replace the entire assembly in both cases. Cost about $160 each time. Dealer installed new assemblies and told us the failure is due to adhesive breakdown but not covered by chevrolet. The vehicle is a 1998 chevy venture ls with 75000 mile in feb and 80000 miles in july.