For some time, I have had an issue with hard shifting in my 2003 hyundai tiburon gt. I have searched all over the internet going through forums and even talking to my mechanics to try and find a solution to solve a problem that has gradually gotten worse and has gone from not only hard shifting but to also grinding of gears when simply driving down the road normally. When parking and shifting into reverse after the vehicle sits over night is the worst with also having to "punch force" the shifter into reverse and then into 1st gear. After the vehicle warms up, the symptoms appear to become a little more subtle but still persist. Only after the class action lawsuit filed against hyundai for clutch related issues in my vehicle has there been reports and solutions for the issue that was known to hyundai. Unfortunately, I purchased the car used and was unable to find any of this information out before I purchased and I am a very thorough investigator when it comes to buying everything.and to top it off the class action suit only helps those that have paid for repairs and now I am left in the dark with this situation looking to have to dish out who knows how much money to fix a problem that hyundai should have taken care of to begin with and I will also never get compensated for except for a technical service bulletin that admits what parts are faulty and ones I'll have to replace.
2003 Hyundai Tiburon transmission complaints
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Have had this car for less than 2 weeks, have not put 200 miles on it. Bought this used vehicle from a local dealership. Have not had any issues with this tiburon until yesterday when I noticed that the clutch was a bit stiff and when I tried to put the car into reverse, I had a hard time finding it, it would not let me put it into reverse and I took my foot off of the clutch and retried it, managed to get it into reverse this time, never had any problems beforehand, the engine revved up and car hesitantly moved out of the garage. Stopped vehicle, put it into 1st gear and started to drive out of my driveway when I put it into 2nd gear, the car jerked as I let go of the clutch but continued to drive it. Got onto the highway and everything was going fine when the traffic started to slow down, went from 6th gear down to 5th gear and the engine revved up and smelled burning rubber, tried to give it some gas to accelerate and would not move, tachometer would show engine revving but was not accelerating at all. Managed to coast car off to the side of the road and came to a stop. Turned the engine off, waited for a couple of minutes and started engine up again and again smelled the burning rubber; tried to put in first gear, went in but would not move, tried reverse and would not move. Called the dealership from where I purchased this vehicle and they did not have a towing service so ended up calling aaa, tow truck driver informed me by the smell that it was more than likely the clutch had gone in it and had some experience with this as he has towed several of these cars for the same reason. Car is in repair shop will be worked on monday 5-24-10. So far the dealership said that they will honor the warranty.
Faulty clutch resulting in unsafe operating conditions.
2003 hyundai tiburon gt 2.7 l, I replaced the clutch and flywheel at 75,000 miles. Im now at 88,000 miles and the clutch is out again! I release the clutch all the way out and when I attempt to accelerate the RPM's go up and very slowly it accelerates. This is a $1800 repair and twice within 13,000 miles in unacceptable!
Clutch failure during rush hour traffic almost caused several accidents while attempting to remove the car from the freeway. Had the car towed to my residence were it is currently sitting inoperable. Contacted the dealership and they informed me that they have not heard of any issues with the clutch in this year vehicle and I would have to pay $2300.00 to have it replaced. Upon further investigation I found hundreds of other people with the same year car with the exact same problem, and to top it off I have also found a technical service bulletin released by hyundai for defective clutch parts in the same year vehicle.
2003 hyundai tiburon v6 6 speed early clutch failure.
I have a 2003 hyundai tiburon gt with a 6 speed manual transmission. The clutch has gone out twice in less than 60k miles. I've driven manuals my whole life and never had a clutch go out until this car. After researching this I've found that this car has an unbelievably high number of clutch failures. Hyundai even stopped making the original "factory" part and replaces it with a different part now but they won't admit there was a problem with the first one. Thanks, jon
Tsb recommending old clutch replacement which is garbage, clutch is garbage.
3 clutch failures within 25,000 miles of car ownership. Dealership won't cover repairs saying it is driver error.
Clutch failure at 55,000 miles cost of repair $1200.
Hello, I'm 26yrs old. I own a 2003 tiburon gt v6 6speed with less than 80,000 miles. I bought it off of the original owner with only 9,000 miles. Within the 70,000 miles I've driven it, it's had three clutches.? I've owned all manual driven cars since I was 16, I learned how to drive with one. We all know I burned that clutch up a little bit yet I still didn't burn that clutch out. The first clutch I had to replace I paid for the parts. Hyundai took care of the labor which was nice but, I still had to pay for a part that I wasn't at fault for ruining. Now I'm on my third clutch, I had to pay for this one in full because I'm the second owner and hyundai only covers 60,000 miles. As of 01\06\09 this one is no longer working. There has to be a manufactures defect of some kind. Whether it is the hydraulic lines pumping too much or not enough fluid, the reverse dual mass clutch, or it being the first year they made the car, and this was one of the problems hyundai had to take care of. I need help please. I've read more reviews on "2003" tiburon's than I can handle to read, and at least 90% said they had clutch problems. I started looking for a solution and the only thing I could find was consumer affairs #, e-mail, and a few other #'s. I called the consumer affairs #, and now they told me they can't help go figure. Their reason was it being to far out of warranty although it was at only 31,000 miles. Now at 77,000 it goes again, what a coincidence. This disaster of a car has cost me around $4,000 and has also put a halt on my life. I had a jeep payment that I had to surrender back to the bank because I could no longer pay for repairs on the tiburon and my jeep. I'm writing this in hope that there is some kind of good will, recall, ect. To help reimburse my loses. Thank you in advance
In aug of 2008, with 90k miles on the car, we had noticed that the clutch was becoming hard to in-gage in order to switch gears. We had the vehicle inspected and it was indicated that the clutch master cylinder seals were failing. During this repair the slave cylinder was also replaced . Because of the location of these components the clutch assembly was physically inspected during disassembly. The clutch, flywheel and pressure plate appeared burned and at a point of failure, when disassembled a ring on the flywheel was no longer in evidence. If the flywheel does not have this ring there is not anyway for the clutch to work so it was deduced that it decomposed in use and with no evidence of it in disassembly. This is a dual mass flywheel which has been shown to be problematic in other brands of vehicles. The cost of this repair was $2300. The company and dealers continue to claim that the failures are not the fault of the vehicle's design but are the fault driver abuse. Believe me, my wife and I have driven dozens of cars with manual transmissions some of which were high performance sports cars and have never had to replace a clutch in any car, three of which were used for amateur racing (others have been driven over 180k miles and sold without the need for a clutch replacement.) research on the nhsta site and others show over 700 identical complaints from owners of 2003-2004 hyundai tiburon gt's and almost zero on 2005-2007. The replacement flywheel assembly (put in the car in aug.2008) had a totally different flywheel retaining device than the original. These two things would indicate that hyundai made corrective actions to fix this problem with later model vehicles and will not acknowledge or rebate repair costs to those owners of the 2003 and early 2004 6 speed clutch assemblies. A full investigation should be made in regards to this problem and restitution should be made to the owners and former owners of the affected vehicles.
Driving on the highway with 50,000 miles on the car and the clutch and flywheel both failed. Hyundai refused to cover the repairs under warranty. Even though there is a technical service bulletin out for my vehicle model year saying there are "deformed clutch components", hyundai quoted me over 2,000 to fix the problem. I took it to an independent service shop where I paid 1,700 instead. Repeated attempts to contact the company have yielded no results.
Have been having clutch problems. I took it to the dealer last july 2007,.dealer couldn't find anything wrong, and charged me labor to look. The problems are getting worse...jumping into gear, sticking in reverse, etc. I've read everywhere this is very common in this model. Can I get any help?
I have a 2003 tiburon gt with a 6 speed transmission. I've had to replace the clutch twice in under 30k miles. I've checked with other tiburon owners and they said it's a defect in the clutch assembly. Hyundai won't admit a problem even though a lot of people are having this issue apparently.
2003 hyundai tiburon gt v6 6-speed manual transmission. The clutch failed after only 30000 miles. I have driven cars with manual transmissions for 20 years. This one was no abused or used for racing. I have never had a clutch go out after so few miles. The problem seem to be caused by a defect in the design of the clutch system. There is a restrictor valve that does not allow the clutch to fully engage until 1 second after the clutch pedal is fully released. This appears to be a wide scale problem. There are posts all over the internet about this defect.
Clutch failure! I am looking at replacing the clutch in this car for the third time. After doing much research on the issue, I have discovered that there are several class actions against hyundai regarding the clutch issue. I have 85k on this car and it has had clutch issues since about 1800 miles. The entire clutch and fly wheel was replaced at 27,618 miles and again at 60k and now again. The problem is the "dual mass flywheel". They know and acknowledge this is a common problem with the clutch and explain it away as the way the user drives. But, how can thousands drive so bad that a clutch last only 27k miles? My husband died 2 weeks after the car broke down out of town with the 2nd clutch replacement. Due in part to the added stress that this put on us. How many other people have to go through this before hyundai takes this seriously. How many people have to injured physically, emotionally or financially before something is done. We were almost hit by a 18 wheeler when the clutch failed the 2nd time. Again, how many people does hyundai have to have this happen to before someone is killed!!!!!!! The date listed below is the 3rd clutch incident date. I have proof of many more defects with this car!!!!! I attribute the death of my husband in part to this continuing problem!!!!!
Ok so this is what's going on and has sounded like it has been going on for a while I am 18 and just made a new purchase of a 2003 hyundai tiburon gt 5 speed it is the first car I have really ever really babied and I have only had it for 3 weeks I have not drove the car hard or anything and the clutch is slipping bad the car ran and drove fine when I bought the car now im looking at a 2,000 dollar charge for something that shouldn't even have went wrong in the first place I leave for the army in july 2008 and now I don't want to drive my car because I am afraid to mess anything else up on it so I am just kind of stuck looking at and nice red car that isn't drivable and I called hyundai and they said its my problem. There should be something done about this.....
I am having problems with the clutch. It is having trouble engaging and disengaging. The clutch does this when the engine is cold and even at times when it is not cold. I took it to the dealership and they replaced the master cylinder due to defect but claimed that the clutch also needed to be replaced due to wear. My car had 59,800 miles when it took it in for the problem. After the fix it still has the same problem.
My car is an 03 hyundai tiburon. It was manufactured on july 23, 2002. I was reading on newtiburon.com that there was a class action complaint for cars manufactured before april of 2003, in reference to the clutches going bad. Now I bought my car used and the owner before said the clutch was replaced at 45,000 miles. The car now has 54,000 miles on it and the clutch grabs really hard and sometimes is hard to drive. I have to release the clutch very slow in order for the car not to jerk hard. In the newtiburon.com forum they were saying some part was bad and can be replaced by the dealer. I was just wondering if my car has the bad part and should be replaced.
Bad clutch.
I have a 2003 hyundai tiburon gt (6 speed manual transmission) that has experienced a premature clutch failure. The car has only 45,000 miles on it, and I drive it quite conservatively. The failure is not from "normal wear and tear". There are design defects that directly lead to this (and many other) premature failures. I have been quoted $2100 in repairs (clutch, pressure plate, throw-out bearing, and flywheel + labor) by the dealer. I am looking into alternative solutions--including trading my car in--as I am not confident the defects will be corrected.
I have a 2003 hyundai tiburon. I had to have the clutch replaced 2 times in 2004. Once in dec and jan. I am now having to replace the clutch again in jan of 2008. What can I do??
2003 hyundai tiburon 4cyl clutch problem. Replaced at 13,000 miles and it is going again at 41,000. I bought the car new and I am 44 years old and I don't abuse the car.
Hazard lights, signal lights, airbag lights, powers windows and clutch.
I have a 2003 hyundai tiburon and my clutch and flywheel both failed at what I think is a little to early. It is driven with care and extremely well maintained. I had a new clutch put in by a professional transmission shop and did not replace the flywheel, just the clutch and hydraulics. Within one business week, my new clutch has failed for a second time and the dealership wants $800 just for the flywheel so I can then take back to the shop and have them install it with my new clutch!
I have a 2003 hyundai tiburon gt v6 and had a clutch problem twice and the warranty did not cover it. I researched online and found out that many other drivers had the same problems. Everytime we went to the dealer they said it was our fault, and made us pay over $1500 for repairs.
At 39,000 miles my clutch and flywheel needed to be replaced. The dealership stated that the warranty would not cover the costs due to wear and tear. There is a lawsuit that has been filed by green welling llp on behalf of numerous 2003 hyundai tiburon owners who have had the same experience. In a technical services bulletin sent to the dealerships in 2004 it was stated that the clutch parts are deformed. I would like to know what I can do to be reimbursed or to fight this. I have paid for repairs on something that should be covered under warranty.
My clutch has to be replaced at 39,000 miles. I drive my car well and cannot understand why this has to be replaced. The dealer has quoted me 1700 dollars and are saying that it is not covered under warranty because it is wear and tear. Reading all of the other complaints on this clutch it is apparent this is a defective part and the manufacturer should be replacing it for free! Pretty sad that hyundai boasts about their 10 year warranty but won't replace anything under it!
Clutch slipping until the bearing eventually broke, clutch assembly was replaced but now it feels as if the clutch disengages and engages everytime I release the throttle even a bit. This problem does not go away.
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