1999 Chevrolet Venture LX review from North America

The driver's seat has a tear that is growing. Cheap fabric.

The head gasket has been replaced twice (total-$1500). The head gasket first blew at only about 30,000 miles, and again at about 53,000 miles.

The tail light assembly has a short due to a very poor design. The engineers put the wire harness and connectors at the TOP of the tail light assembly, with no protection from the rain! Now the turn signals are faulty, the ABS light comes on when the headlights are on, and the tail lights are faulty.

The driver's power window switch died with the window down. Thank goodness it wasn't raining! It was replaced, and now the window stops half way down and when I press the switch again, sometimes it will go down, and sometimes it won't. Now the window motor is going out.

It has had TWO recall notices on the power door. Sometimes it would close electrically and sometimes it would not. (Why two notices? Couldn't they get it right the first time?)

Tires must be replaced often.

Brakes are replaced often.

I will NEVER own another Venture, and possibly not another Chevy if this is an indication of the engineers' abilities (or lack of it). I can't even trust this car enough to drive it on long trips for fear that I will be stranded. I could for the first few thousand miles, but now I can't, and I am looking for another car. The comfort level is great. Very comfortable. Too bad that doesn't get you where you want to go. I wish that I could force a Chevy engineer to drive it until he gets stranded many times.