2003 Chevrolet Venture: engine overheating

6 of the 185 complaints about the 2003 Chevrolet Venture describe engine overheating.

owner complaints: 6
of this car's complaints: 3%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 64 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Engine overheating by model year

2005
2
2004
7
2003
6
2002
13
2001
17
2000
14
1999
16
1998
14
1997
21
1996
1

What owners say

Filed Feb 7, 2021 · Electrical · 114,000 miles · IL

The buttons for my control dash where radio and heat adjustment are, the panel,. Gets blazing hot to the touch. Everytime we drive it. It's overheating so much I am concerned it wasn't fixed by a recall previously claimed. The buttons decals have melted off on some buttons. This happens when the car is on. I recently purchased this van privately in illinois.

Filed Jul 9, 2012 · Engine · 94,600 miles · PA

Tl* the contact owns a 2003 chevrolet venture. The contact stated that while driving 15 MPH, she noticed that the vehicle was overheating. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer stated that the lower intake needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and they stated that there were no recalls addressing the failure. The failure and current mileages were 94,600.

Filed Apr 15, 2009 · Engine · 126,000 miles · VA

Strong smell of antifreeze and was loosing coolant. Overheating. Spoke with gm several times and complained. This cost me $1000.00 to repair and after reading complaints of owners with the same problem, the problem recurred after repairing. Also, signal light bulbs kept blowing and an electrical board had to be replaced.

Filed Mar 25, 2008 · Engine · MI

In our 2003 chevy venture with only 53,000 miles. We are having trouble with the intake manifold leaking. The van has overheated and needs to be replaced at a high cost to us. It upsets me to find that chevrolet knows of the problem but has done nothing to correct it. Why recall the vans in canada with the same problem but not here in the united states.

Filed Sep 23, 2007 · Engine · 63,500 miles · MI

On 3 mile in town trip, heat gauge suddenly climbed into the red. I turned of car and let it cool. Drove back home with many stops to prevent overheating. Towed it to a dealer. Lower manifold intake gasket, a well documented problem--but no us recall, needed to be replaced. Labor costs brought the defective and badly engineered replacement to over $900. There was no engine damage, because I caught the problem early, as no coolant had yet leaked into the engine.

Filed Oct 15, 2005 · Airbags, Brakes · SC

I have owned this van for 28 months with multiple mechanical failures. I have had the brakes replaced, the rack and pinion replaced twice, the tie rods on both sides, the power window motor on the passenger side, the glove box lock, the water pump, the thermostat twice, the engine "seals", the coolant hoses and the power door handles. The power sliding door gasket has also come off on multiple occasions. The airbag light has now been on for 4 weeks. I have been stranded many times and without a vehicle on several occasions. The latest problem required three visits to the dealer to fix. The car overheated and could not be driven all three times, in a two week period. This required a new water pump on the first visit, a new thermostat 8 days later and new hoses 1 day after that.