Fuel Injection Problems of Chevrolet Venture

2002 Chevrolet Venture. Consumer is handicapped and has to drive left footed. Within the first year of owning the Venture opened left sliding manual door and the door fell off the tracks and fell onto the consumer. This was in November of 2002. Consumer's brother put the door back on the tracks and sled it as far as it would go, but would not close. Drove the van to dealership, they said they fixed it. Continued to have door problems, and vehicle has been in and out of the dealership. August or September of 2004, the door fell off again. Stopped and had help putting it back on. Took it back to dealership, they said they fixed it again. Then, the sliding door overlapped the drivers door, pining the consumer in vehicle. Took back to dealership and this time it was out of warranty, and consumer had to pay to have it fixed. Currently, the window was moving from the wind that was coming around the door. Called the manufacturer, and I told them that door needed to be fixed agai. Currently, the car was parked in consumer's driveway awaiting repairs. The right door was now showing the same problems, the dealership changed the right door module due to a recall. This fixed the right door. The door has no handles to be able to shut the door ,and consumer must slide the door using the window, and this was unsafe. The dealership put new seat belts in because they said the seat belts were causing the door problem . The new seat belts do not retract. The seat latch by the right rear door broke, could not move the seat in any way. About 2 months ago, while driving stopped at a stop sign and smelled gas. The o ring had a defect that caused this, according to the dealership.

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On the date referenced, I was backing into a parking space. My sister was already parked next to me and was still in her car. As I was packing up using only the brake, suddenly the horn started blowing and the engine suddenly accelerated. As a result of the acceleration the tires turned sharply causing the car to jump the parking bumper and crashing into my sister's car. The damage to both vehicles was approximately $1600. We have had the body work completed but the local Chevrolet garage could find nothing in the computer diagnostics to indicate a problem. They supposedly checked the vehicle for what may have caused the sudden acceleration, but could find nothing. We have heard recent other car owners experiences about similar occurances but none involving the Chevrolet Venture. I now am uncomfortable driving this vehicle that I otherwise love. Have their been any other complaints of this type? what other recourse do we have with Chevrolet to really have them thoroughly check the vehicle? I am absolutely sure there was no manual acceleration since I was already beginning to back the vehicle into the spot which was requiring no manual acceleration only vehicle movement controlled by the brake (there was no grade to be negotiated).

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O-ring cracked on fuel filter under the vehicle, fuel leaked all over garage, and consumer woke up, coughing and had burning eyes. Consumer felt house could have exploded.

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Service advisor indicated that gm is having a problem with the Venture vans where the fuel injectors clog up with fuel for no apparent reason.

After owning vehichle a few months, van was left running while parked, waiting on a passenger. It ran out of gas during this time and we filled a total of four five gallon gas cans, in an attempt to get it started. Finally Chevrolet was contacted and I was informed that the vehicle had some self-destruct mechanism which caused a diaphram (?) in the tank to disable should it ever run out of gas or have gas put in in any method other than with a standard nozzle. This, I was told was a safty feature so that owner's would take it into the shop should they run out of gas, so that the vehicle could be checked. However, had I ran out of gas in an unsafe area, this could prove detrimental to my safety and that of my passengers.