2004 Chevrolet Venture problems, complaints & recalls
Most-reported problem areas: Electrical System (19) · Structure:body:door (13) · Latches/Locks/Linkages:doors:latch (11)
🧭 Reliability snapshot
Compared against other Chevrolet Venture model years — complaint volume vs the model's median year, recalls and severity. How we score →
🛣️ Complaints by mileage
90 NHTSA complaints that reported an odometer reading.
Safety recalls (0)
No recalls on record for this model year (campaigns announced since 2010).
Service bulletins (475)
Technical service bulletins are repair instructions manufacturers send dealers for known issues. Unlike recalls, the fix is not automatically free — but naming the bulletin at the service desk can save diagnosis time and support goodwill repairs.
Unknown Or Other 2025-07-18 · PIP5601C · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this pi communicates the requirement to provide a pico file to receive diagnostic assistance from tac.
Unknown Or Other 2025-02-20 · PIP5358D · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this preliminary information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that have an unusual noise and is difficult to identify, isolate or pinpoint. technician should get record a sound clip or take a video of the noise for assessment by engineering. technician will need to
Electrical System 2024-10-25 · PIP4723J · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this preliminary information communicates to the dealer the process for downloading or updating operating software for the tire pressure monitor, active fuel injector tester, multi media tester, pico scope, gr8 starting/charging tester and vehicle data recorder tools, giving website address and ste
Unknown Or Other 2024-09-12 · PIT5099H · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this preliminary information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that the heater-vent-air conditioning blows warm air. before calling general motors technical assistance center technician will need to have high and low pressures, outside temperature, humidity, and ven
Unknown Or Other 2024-09-12 · PIT5099H · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this preliminary information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that the heater-vent-air conditioning blows warm air. before calling general motors technical assistance center technician will need to have high and low pressures, outside temperature, humidity, and ven
Unknown Or Other 2024-09-06 · PIT3271P · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
this preliminary information communication provides information to the technician about changing the tire and wheel size on vehicles. general motors will only support a tire calibration for tires that have been sized, tested and designed for the vehicle in question and its applications. technician s
Showing the 6 most recent of 475 bulletins. Search all of them free at nhtsa.gov.
What owners report
2024-06-04 · Tires“[xxx] 2021, purchased 4 tires walmart, radar dimax as-8 size: 225/60r16. june 2023 tire badly separated. denied warranty because walmart did not install. purchase 2 more identical tires and picked up [xxx] 2023 and installed both. bad tire trashed no longer have in possession. several months later had another tire separate so installed the …”
2021-10-25 · Air Bags · 59,072 mi · 💥 crash“the contact owns a 2004 chevrolet venture. the contact stated while driving 30 mph, when a police officer ran the red traffic light and crashed into the driver's side door, and pushed the vehicle into a school bus. the air bags did not deploy. the contact stated she has a broken right foot and did seek medical attention at the hospital and was wait…”
2020-03-16 · Service Brakes · 173,000 mi“the instrument cluster gauges went out and my abs light stays on and i'm in motion…”
2019-04-08 · Air Bags · 270,000 mi · 💥 crash“tl* the contact owned a 2004 chevrolet venture. while the contact's vehicle was at a complete stop, it was rear ended by another vehicle traveling approximately 50 mph. none of the air bags deployed. the contact was pregnant and had to be transported to the hospital via ambulance. a police report was filed. the driver of the other vehicle was intox…”
2018-12-08 · Power Train · 215,000 mi“transmission slips and jerks when driving , gas sometimes spups.…”
2018-10-04 · Structure:body · 120,011 mi · 💥 crash“(xxxxxxxxx) craigslist lemon law parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6)…”
2016-02-04 · Electrical System · 42,000 mi“dash displays inaccurate or not working gauges. temperature and speedometer often doesn't work at all or shows 120mph when driving at approx 55mph! temp will often show hot when car is at normal temp.…”
2015-10-20 · Exterior Lighting · 220,000 mi“tl* the contact owns a 2004 chevrolet venture. while driving 35 mph, the brake lights failed to illuminate. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was not notified of the failure. the approximate failure mileage was 220,000.…”
2015-08-24 · Exterior Lighting · 100,400 mi“headlights are dangerously dim at night. new bulbs, new headlight lenses, no solution. same problem with my 1999 chevy venture.…”
2015-07-23 · Fuel/Propulsion System · 136,000 mi“tl* the contact owns a 2004 chevrolet venture. after the vehicle was fueled, there was a strong odor of fuel coming from the vehicle. the contact observed a puddle of fuel under the rear driver side of the vehicle. the failure recurred continuously. the manufacturer was made aware of the failure and stated that the vin was not included in nhtsa cam…”
Excerpts of consumer complaints filed with NHTSA, lightly truncated. They are owner statements, not verified findings.