2004 Chevrolet Express

Minivan, Van

6 liter V8

Automatic

1GCGG29U941119189

Clear

Gasoline

*NOTE* The "accident" reported on the Autocheck Vehicle History Report is NOT a car accident. It was when we filed a police report after the van was broken into and the screens were stolen. This van is truly one of a kind. We purchased the 2500 extended wheel base shell with tow package from Chevy and then had several customs things done to it. Quigley 4x4 in Pennsylvania converted it to an on-demand four wheel drive system, with 2 wheel, 4 wheel high and 4 wheel low settings. DMC conversion van in Milwaukee did the rest. You can clearly see that it has a custom paint job and the paint is still in excellent condition. Inside, it has seating for 9 people – 3 rows of captain’s chairs (driver’s row and 2 passenger’s rows) and a back bench. The bench folds down into a bed. Also, the two passenger rows and the bench are all removable and with them out, there is a lot of storage room. It has a DVD player and has wiring for two screens. Note that I do not have any screens in it now as the two that came with it were stolen before we got the security system (that's what the "accident" reported on the vehicle history report was from) and then the two replacement screens were stolen when we forgot to arm the security system. We do have two 14 inch detachable screens that I will give you if you want them. We just put them up before we leave and then take them out when we get to where we are going. The screens can run independently from one another if desired. There is a front CD/stereo (stock) and a rear CD/stereo that run out of different speakers and there are also headphone jacks for the DVD system and rear radio. It has front and rear AC and heat. There are inside running lights and shades on all of the windows in the passenger area (except for the windows on the rear doors, which I took off because they broke and didn't really like them there anyway).I have done/had a lot of work done to it in the past 9 months – I replaced all four shocks and the inside and outside tie rods and then had the front end aligned. There are four new Firestone Transforce HT LT225-75R16 tires and we have gotten up to 60,000 miles on tires on the van. The AC has recently been fixed and is working as good as new. All four rotors and brake pads were replaced a month ago. This van runs great – if you watch the YouTube video on it you can hear it start right up. This has been the most dependable vehicle I have owned in 30 years of driving. I have been extremely anal about changing the oil and I don’t think it has ever gone over 4000 miles before changing the oil and filter. It burns about ¾ of a quart from one oil change to the next, but there is no blue smoke or anything like that from the exhaust. When we recently drive it to Texas and back, it ran smooth as glass at 75 mph and up. We really hate to sell it but our family of 8 has shrunken to 6 and so we just don’t need this big of a vehicle anymore.Although I think this van is in pretty good shape considering it is 10 years old and has over 173,000 miles on it, it is obviously a 10 year old van that has hauled around at least 6 kids for the majority of its life. I think it is important that everyone knows what the specific “evidences of use” are and want to describe it better here than I could in the other section. The driver’s seat has some cracking in the material….these seats are supposed to be leather but the way the driver’s seat has cracked, I wonder…. (photo included). The top layer of the steering wheel is peeling off, like so many of them do (photo included). The leather on the front passenger captain’s chair arm is worn through (about dime sized or a little smaller) and you can see the frame underneath (photo included). The tension string on the shade on the big window immediately behind the driver is broken and so to get it to stay up we have been using two little Velcro straps. Although I haven’t specifically checked, I am sure that some of the inside running lights are burned out. Also, two of the bolts that hold the left rear taillight got torqued off when I was replacing a light bulb in Texas a few weeks ago. The taillight housing still seems to be fairly solid in there, though (there is another nut and bolt holding it on and it is “form fitting” into the space. I am pretty sure it will be fine without the two lost bolts and I have not had plans to replace them up to this point). GM had a real problem with those double-Dutch side doors (the ones that the passengers use to get into the vehicle). Our model was before they started to put these on both sides of the van, by the way. The doors worked fine for about four years and then the hinges on the left double Dutch door started to get stiff. The hinges then wore out and wouldn't open at all and we have had them replaced but the hinges for the left door still don’t really work. The one double-Dutch door on the right opens just fine and so people can get in and out without a problem. The door on the left does open but it is very hard to open and close – very stiff. No amount of penetrating oil or white lithium grease has ever made it work better. As I said, they both do open but the one on the left doesn't open as far as it should and so if you are thinking of using this van as a hauling vehicle, be aware that you may have limited width to get material into the side. We have gotten along just fine using the one door only. The rear doors work fine. There are a couple small bubbles of rust on the left side low down where the side skirts meet the van (photos included). The van has never been in an accident, but I have driven, at very slow speed, the right front bumper into a small parking pole that I thought I was clear of (photo included) and also backed into something and dented the rear bumper a little (photo included). Also, I am pretty sure there is a leak in the windshield washer fluid reservoir because it seems to run out way faster than I think it should, though I have never seen any evidence that fluid is leaking from it.I have a video of it starting here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtqwUZ_-p7kI have a walk around video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNVkinDQgAIf you have any specific questions or would like other photos, please email me.On Oct-23-13 at 21:58:28 PDT, seller added the following information: Update 10-23-2013: Yesterday when I drove the van the ABS/Brake light came on. I had forgotten about that. It has intermittently come on after starting for about 5 - 6 years and it hasn't done so for at least 6 months. I have had it checked out at least twice in the past and they can never find anything wrong with the ABS or the brakes (and I just had all four discs and rotors replaced in August). They thought it was some sort of loose wire or something but that everything worked fine (and the ABS does work fine) and since it happens pretty rarely, I have not thought it was all that important to have them run the wiring to see if they could find something wrong. When it comes on, if you turn the engine off and then start it back up after a couple minutes, the light doesn't come back on. I don't think there is anything wrong with it but thought it important to list.