2001 Chevrolet Venture: complete transmission failure

Filed Sep 9, 2016 · Visibility · 15,000 miles · MO

Tl* the contact owns a 2001 chevrolet venture. While driving approximately 50 MPH in the rain, the windshield wipers failed to operate properly. After activating the wipers, they became jammed together. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the wiper transmission was faulty. The transmission was replaced, but the contact continued to experience the failures. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The failure mileage was 15,000.

Filed Mar 3, 2005 · Visibility · 49,880 miles · LA

It was raining in louisiana and I was driving to pick up my husband from work. Upon leaving his work. We were traveling east on highway 10 to church on a wendesday evening. The windshield wipers hit each other and the passenger side was laying limp on the side. The drivers side was still attempting to work. We had to turn them off and drive the rest of the way to church with no wipers. The passenger side had been bent and we removed the arm so that we could drive the van with just the driver side wiper. It was still under warranty at the time (11000 miles). We brought it to the local dealership in baker, louisiana. They did not have the parts to fix it so they ordered the parts. We waited three weeks for parts. When we finally called back to see if the parts had come in, they told us that they had and they just forgot to call us. We brought the van in and they replaced the wiper arm and they could not get the timing right on the wipers. They found out that they had to replace the transmission for the wipers and set the timing. They have been running fine until about three weeks ago. The just stopped working all together this time. You can hear the motor trying to turn to move the wipers but they are not moving. This repair is at 51000 miles. First time ever that I have had the windshield wipers on any vehicle I have owned go out, much less go out twice. The dealership wants to charge 240 dollars plus tax for repairs. This is ridiculous.

Filed Apr 27, 2004 · Transmission · 77,900 miles · MI

Valve body cross leak. The falure is caused by an inadaquate valve body insatlled in the automobile causing transmission failure. I have been told by several transmission repair shops as well as the chevy dealer that this is an extremely common failure on all similar gmc chevy models at or near 70-100k. To correct the failure, an updated valve body must replace the current style on the vehicle. They actually created an updated body because of the commonality of the problem.

Filed Nov 2, 2003 · Transmission · 58,000 miles · NY

My 2001 venture lt was purchase 6/21/01 new. Beginning around 25,000 miles I began to experience an intermittent transmission problem where when the car was in drive the engine would accelerate but no power was transfer to the transmission and then the transmission would engage and the car would lurch forward. Despite this complaint and 3 trips to the dealership at 28,000, 41,000, and 52,000 they could not replicate or fix the problem. At 58,000 the transmission experienced a catastrophic failure. Additionally, I personally know of another owner with a catastrophic transmission failure at less than 30,000 miles.

Filed Aug 24, 2003 · Transmission · 44,800 miles · AZ

Premature failure of automatic transmission on 2001chevrolet venture minivan. Believe known engineering or materials defect causes sun gear/thrust bearing on input shaft to prematurely fail (44,000 miles in my case). If failed under speed could cause accident as all forward and reverse power to wheels was lost. Many complaints on web about pre-mature chevrolet venture transmission failures. Gm also has had a service bulletin out for some time on the failing sun gear/thrust bearing. Seems pretty early in model year life to be publishing what is apparently a common problem showing up at repair sites. Request recall investigation.