Four problems related to transmission failure have been reported for the 2001 Chevrolet Venture. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Chevrolet Venture based on all problems reported for the 2001 Venture.
Transmission fails at 54,000 miles due to defective parts. Rebuilt transmission will cost $2000.
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.
Lurching shift while driving for about three days then suddenly when starting out it jerked and quit moving. I had it towed to a local transmission repair facility. I called the chevy dealership to let them know the transmission had failed at approximately 41,000 miles, even before the first transmission service was due. They asked if I had bought the extended warranty. I replied that I had not. They said there was nothing they could do as the warranty had expired. I emailed the Chevrolet company without any reply.
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.