We have owned this vehicle for 3 years and have had a few minor problems up to this point. The second row seats don't fold into the floor but are light weight, but to be honest we've never needed them out since it's a family car there is normally booster seats sitting there. The Third row Seat folds nicely into the floor and we have the optional cargo area bin that when the seats are folded makes it a seamless flat load floor all the way to the second row.
Although there isn't a huge amount of road noise in ours anyway. It also has speed compensated volume, which is nice. Radio has nice sound even with 14 year old speakers, on an almost base model vehicle. The 25 Gallon Tank cost a bit more to fill up but really makes it easy on long trips than some Vans with 17-20 Gallon tanks. On the highway it rides smoother than our Town and Country that it replaced, and gets slightly better mileage too. The van even with the previously mentioned transmission abuse, has quite a bit of pep, for a minivan. Not as easy to fix as, the new sockets have to be spliced into the old wires, but if you've every hooked up speakers you can do this too. They would get hot and blow out the bulbs the same way, although mine took it a step further and melted the light housing. The front turn signal sockets were also bad. Changing them out is no big deal since you have to take them out to change the bulb so if you can do that you can fix the problem for good, in about 20 min. I went on rock auto and for about $20 I ordered new sockets for both left and right assemblies. Because of this the brake lights burn out allot, and when they do the cruise control doesn't work. The parts supplier for this van made sub-par light sockets for the front turn signals and the rear brake lights. Some issues that it has that I can't blame on the previous owners are there are some easy to fix electrical issues. My wife drives it daily and we use it to travel with the family 3-4 times a year and never think twice about it. Because of that the transmission sometimes slips at take off but shifts fine otherwise. The transmission fluid looked like used oil and smelled like burnt toast so strong you could smell it as soon as you removed the dipstick. The previous owner had abused it, but as with most GM cars I've owned it was pretty forgiving, considering how badly it was treated. We bought it used with 143,000, and to date, we're at about 158,000 miles on it.
So I have had a 2003 Venture LS LWB for about a year now. I am surprised how fast she can get going and I have her loaded up all the time.get's 20 mpg and better with a heavy load.Prices for these and all have gone crazy the world has gone crazy.if you can find a clean one that has been taken care of for under 3.4 thou and under 100 thou miles buy her. There are several minor things you might need to look at.One was the brake lights heating up and burning out.easy fix.use LED bulbs.No heat.no burn out.Headlight housings are made of cheap plastic and so are all the replacement ones they will all cloud up and get dull.No need to try any sprays or whatever to protect new ones it won't y and clean up old ones is the best you can do.LED's work great there too might have to re aim ont blinkers to should be changed to LED no heat low power draw.They will blink faster but no big deal don't mess with fixing that.have the oil changed every 3 thou and it should last you a long time. I bought it on the internet in the USA while I was in Europe for $2,000 she now has 202,500 miles on her.
I have had my 2003 Chevy Venture LS for over 2 years now here in May ,2022.
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