Three problems related to air bag light on have been reported for the 2003 Chevrolet Venture. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Chevrolet Venture based on all problems reported for the 2003 Venture.
On 10/30/07, my 2003 chevy Venture airbag light came on. I brought the vehicle to the local dealer, and was told that the r/s safety deployment module was failing and needed to be replaced. The dealer told me this was not a huge problem and that the vehicle was safe to drive. He told me the repairs could wiat until I had the money in January. On 11/25/07, whicle driving the vehicle, the drivers side (side) airbag deployed and exploded immediately. I phoned the dealer and was told that the problem was unrelated and they were not responsilbe. I filed a product allegation complaint with gm. They sent an inspector to the dealer who reviewed the car and found it was a computer malfuntion of the safety deployment module that caused the airbag to deploy. He stated that their was nothing that I could have done to cause the airbga deployment. The dealer admitted to gm that they told me the vehicle was safe to drive, but gm declined to repair the vehicle. I have since found out that this vehicle was recalled for 2 separate front airbag problems. Gm states that this vehicle has no open recalls on it. The vehicle has not been repaired, and is now off the road. I am paying the loan off and hoping to get some resolution to have this vehicle repared so I can continue to use it.
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.
Electrical system: battery light and air bag light come on for a few seconds for no reason while driving down the road.