Dash Wiring Problems of Chevrolet Venture

Melted/burned plastic where brake light & turn-signal wires connect to rear brake/turn-signal housings. Also melted plastic near contacts where some brake lamps plug into that housing. Cause a dangerous condition for driving at the least, and possibly a fire hazard. Background & specifics: brake lamps burn out frequently. Upon changing them I see burned plastic around the area where bulb leads connect to brake light housing. Also have seen several instances where dashboard light indicators for brakes do not work properly, because of poor grounding/wiring/contacts between brake wires and brake light housings. When they fail, specific result is the following: when ignition turned on, both brake signal lights on the dashboard light up--even though turn signals lever is not on. If I set turn signal on, both dashboard turn signal indicator lights stay on. Then the dashboard turn-signal lights will blink fast if I have my foot on the brake pedal, and at normal speed when I am off the brake pedal. I removed brake light housings again and removed connector that plugs into them. They both smell of burned plastic, and you can see the plastic is badly burned away around one (ground) wire within the connector. I looked on forums online and many many people have had the same problems with this model car. I feel this presents a dangerous situation--that may either cause an accident, or a electrical fire within the car. The car failed inspection and I felt it was dangerous to drive. Because others online indicated the same problems I figured that replacing the brake/tail light housings with more oem housings would risk having the same problem. So I drilled out the plastic and manually soldered a proper ground wire to the proper place in order to maintain proper ground contact. I don't feel this is a good solution but many others who indicated this problem said the dealer would not honor repair of this obvious design or manufacturers defect.

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Water in headlights. Taken back to dealership once already. Water accumulated again. Tail lights were stuck. Only one turn signal would blink, which would cause everything on the dashboard to blink and the radio reading to blink. - diagnosis was the hazard light switch on top of the steering column. Replaced. Upon purchase and driving - a slight hesitation was noticed when accelerating. The dealership said it was the way chevys' change gears. The hesitation is getting worse (possible transmission problems).

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Dt the vehicle caught on fire. The fire department came and extinguished the fire. The fire department claimed it was the electrical system up under the dash. This happened on September 26, 2005. Smelled something burning while driving on the highway, but in this area it could smell like that at certain times. The vehicle had been sitting for an hour and fifteen minutes before the fire. There was no for earning and no noise. Contacted the dealer, they said they could not help us.

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The contact owns a 2005 chevy Venture with 7 passenger seating. The contact stated that the air conditioning was not working . The fuel gauge worked erratically. . One minute it will show full and the next empty. Also havedproblems with the temperature gauge, they corrected that problem. The dash cluster, a/c pumps, and the a/c valve has been replaced and still not corrected the problems. You can be driving down the road the a/c will be cooling and then all of a sudden it will blow out hot air. Brakes were making a squealing noise. The van only has less than 10,000 miles. The dealership has been doing everything that the service representative iwas telling him to do. The service managerfrom gm told the service manager at the dealership to replace the throttle body to fix the a/c and that has nothing to do with the air conditioner. Also, there was another van with more miles than his that had same problems. The contact has been having problems with his van every since date of purchase which was April 29, 2005.

Vehicle experienced an electrical problem. The dashboard lights began to illuminate and went out. This occurred repeatedly for about 45 seconds . Consumer took the vehicle to the dealer on 6 occasions, and the problem was not resolved. Consumer was told by the service technician to ignore this.

After starting the vehicle in driveway a burnt odor was smelled followed by black smoke. Within a few minutes the vehicle caught on fire from under the dashboard. Local fire department arrived to extinguish the fire. Black smoke came gushing out by the airbag. Soon after the dash board exploded in flames. Explosion caused all the windows to blow out. Vehicle was a total loss as flames engulfed the entire body.

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Consumer has been having dash panel light problems. She stated that vehicle had been in repair shop 5 times. Once the mechanic replaced the switch that turned on the lights because there was an electrical short in the switch. Then, she was told that a lot of problems occurred because left turn signal was locking up.

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While driving dash board lights would start flashing off and on. Consumer would have no idea how fast she was going. Vehicle was taken to the dealer, and control panel cluster was replaced. Less than six months later, problem occurred again. Currently, vehicle is in the shop again for the same thing.

Dashboard lights will not automatically come on at night. When leaning forward in seat seat belt comes on. Seat belt indicator alarm doesn't work. Locks unlock and lock going down the road. Mechanic stated it was body control module. Consumer was taking vehicle to the dealer to confirm problem.

While driving there was an electrical fire behind the instrument panel. Driver was able to exit safely. Fire was put on by the owner. Fire department did respond. Vehicle will be towed to the dealership. Not sure if vehicle will be totalled. Please provide any further information.

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2 major wiring harness melted, replaced with wrong harness. . No cause found and dealer said it was ok for them to put wrong harness in!!! took original dealer 2+ weeks to fix and it was still not correct. I took it to my dealer and they spliced in new wires to make rear speakers work. They informed me the harness was from another model Venture but it was ok. Contacted Chevrolet by phone and letter and they were no help. They told me to work it out with the dealer.

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Can send a more readable version on request. I'd like to point out a very real and dangerous issue with Chevrolet Ventures. We bought a 2000 model this spring. While traveling one day, my wife and I, in the front seats, thought we smelled smoke. We figured that a vehicle that passed us on the interstate was spewing fumes, so we didn't really think it was anything serious. A few seconds later, smoke starting pouring out of the front passenger seat! I yelled at my wife to pull over, and she and our three children immediately evacuated the vehicle. I stood by the passenger door, trying to find the source of this smoke, which was pouring out from the front and the back of the seat. I pulled out the storage drawer under the seat, expecting something there. It was at that point that I looked behind the seat, so see the entire bottom of the seat glowing bright orange from open flames. Instinct took over at that point, and I very quickly pulled out the contents under the seat - a child's book, a spiral-bound notebook, and a nylon seat-belt cover designed for children. I then began stamping out the items and the burning carpet with my shoes and bare hands. All of this took, at most, 15-20 seconds. My wife successfully pulled the children very far away from the vehicle, for fear of the fire spreading, and maybe even causing an explosion. Had I thought about my actions rather than reacting by instinct, I probably should have left the vehicle as well. The cause? there are several connectors under the front seats of the chevy Venture. On our van, the sets of black connectors are not used. (I would guess they are for power seats, which we do not have). At any rate, these connectors are "hot" (meaning there is a voltage present on the pins of the connectors) and not covered in any way. When my daughter stopped drawing in her spiral-bound notebook, it fell off the seat, and landed under the front seat. The wire in the notebook created a short between the unpr.

Rear windshield wiper goes off when shutting the automatic passenger door/all electronics an dashboard goes off when using headlight controls/headlights goes off by themselves every 10 seconds/driver's control for door locks has completely gone out/evaporative emission canister vend solenoid valve assembly failed prior to recall, van is not idling properly.