What year Venture is most reliable ?

[venturenot]

The transmission went on my 1998 Venture that has 285,000 miles. The rocker panels are rusted, AC is bad and it needs 4 tires. So I think that it has finally seen its day.

I was looking at a used 2004 Venture that is being sold for a really great price. I was wondering if they worked out the most common problems such as LIM gasket, blower motor resistor, rear tail light circuit boards shorting, head gasket, transmission solenoids, power sliding door opening, power window regulator going bad, by 2004 ?

[Tech II]

I was wondering if they worked out the most common problems such as LIM gasket, blower motor resistor, rear tail light circuit boards shorting, head gasket, transmission solenoids, power sliding door opening, power window regulator going bad, by 2004 ?

A ten year old vehicle with no maintenance history? Any one of those problems could occur......any one of those could have been corrected by now....it's like going to Vegas.....

[sverker]

The updated LIM gasket builetin came sometime late 2002, and somewhere around then they changed the DEX-COOL formula if I recall correctly which should lower the risk for faulty head gaskets. The other items I don't think there is a major difference on. Still as Tech-II points out it's 10 year old by now so it will suffer from normal wear and tear.