Hyundai Tiburon jerking problems

Filed Dec 11, 2012 · Acceleration, Transmission · 48,800 miles · TX

I am the sole driver of a 2007 tiburon se. Two years ago, with only 25,685 miles on it, the car had clutch failure, was jerking when going into 1st gear, and not gliding when switching through the other gears. I took it to a dealership week and was told that they would have to take it down to the transmission which would take about 7 hours to do, and then there would be about a 10-30% chance that the problem would be due to driver error, in which case, I would be responsible for the cost of diagnosis (about $700) plus the repair. If the problem was deemed to be a defective part, then it would be covered under warranty. My first car in high school was a simca (stick shift). Then I drove a toyota truck, then a ford ranger truck, then a ford mustang. All of which were stick shifts which I drove about 7 yrs each, and none of which ever had a clutch problem. To be told that I may have caused this problem by the way that I drive was somewhat insulting. Due to my persistence, the clutch was repaired under warranty. Now 2 yrs later, the same thing has happened again, and I am being told the same thing by hyundai. I am 54 yrs old with over 40 yrs experiencing of driving cars with manual transmissions! Now that I see that there are so many others with this issue, apparently, a class action suit was settled on the 2003 tiburon clutches. They no longer make the tiburon, perhaps there were just too many issues with them. Please help; this is happening to too many people and something needs to be done about it.

Filed May 4, 2012 · WI

I have a 2006 hyundai, tiburon gt with the 2.7 litre v-6 and 5 speed manual transmission. After shifting from 1st to 2nd gear, the car jerks (like when you 1st learn to drive a manual) on several occasions I have came very close to being rear ended when this happens!!! And sometimes it wont come out of 1st gear when car is stopped/parked, you have to shut the car off put it in neutral then it will go into whatever gear you want.

Filed Nov 1, 2010 · Transmission · 39,000 miles · AZ

Manual transmission clutch premature wear out or failure. See all attached web sites. Http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/direct/view/.f0c9eb6; http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/hyundai/tiburon/r72880/comments/; http://www.aboutautomobile.com/complaint/2006/hyundai/tiburon/clutch this is 4-6 years of complaints from different owners this should be addressed. If one person can find other people with different year vehicles of the same problem. Do we have to have people killed before you take action on any situation. A check valve and spring may be removed to remedy this dangerous situation. It causes the car to lurch of buck unexpectedly. Possibly causing a rear end collision.

Filed Aug 20, 2010 · Acceleration · 84,000 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2003 hyundai tiburon. While driving approximately 35 MPH, the vehicle abnormally accelerated. The contact applied the brakes to stop the unintended acceleration but to no avail. The contact was able to stop the vehicle by utilizing the emergency brake. The contact shut off the vehicle and when restarting, the contact drove the vehicle 10 MPH until she reached her residence yet the vehicle would abnormally jerk during her travel. The vehicle was towed to an authorized dealer where she was informed that the motor mount was installed backward and several bolts were missing. The vehicle was repaired and the failure did not recur. The failure and current mileage was 84,000.

Filed May 23, 2010 · Transmission · 75,479 miles · ME

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.

Filed Dec 17, 2008 · Transmission · 70,000 miles · AL

As the original owner, I have 4 transmission repairs for my hyundai tiburon: 05/28/04 jim burke hyundai service invoice comments: ?customer states transaxle will not shift ? Stays in 3rd gear ? States has been advised needs TCM replaced ? Check transaxle operation and contact techline ? Check with a/t tester ? Not going into gear ? R&r and replace transaxle with reman unit and flush cooler.? The transmission stayed in 3rd gear. Hyundai replaced the transmission. 10/01/2004 the transmission slipped again. I have an invoice that states the *?locking clip off of right drive axle allowing fluid to leak out of axle seal ? Ordered locking clip ? Filled transaxle to correct level ? Advised customer of leak ? Customer to bring vehicle back for clip replacement.? *this indicates the clip was left off the last time the transmission was serviced by the dealership on 05/28/04, which suggesting negligence. 10/4/04 the following comments were taken from the invoice: ?customer states transaxle is slipping ? Leaking found axle clip missing allowing axle to move and fluid to leak. R&r right axle and replace retainer clip? 10/18/05 the following comments were taken from the invoice: ?customer state transaxle lurches or sticks while driving ? Perform scan test ? Code p0734 ? 4th gear error ? Road test vehicle ? Code reset ? Contact tech line ? Case #205359 r&r replace transaxle with reman unit and flush cooler? Because this was the second time I had a problem with the transmission recently, I asked the dealership for a new transmission instead of a manufactured one. The dealership would only give me a manufactured one. 03/28/08 invoice comments: ?automatic transaxle flush and replace fluid? There are no service comments regarding a transmission problem. The service cost me $191.12. 04/10/08 invoice comments: ?customer states check engine light came on ? Was advised has codes p0734 and p1624 ? Perform scan.

Filed Mar 24, 2008 · Transmission · 53,000 miles · WI

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.

Filed Sep 16, 2005 · Transmission · FL

Dt: there was a defect in the vehicle, they used deformed clutch part. The clutch was slipping. Vehicle is at the dealership now. When shifting gears and pushing the gas pedal it takes it a few minutes to kick into gear and it jerks the vehicle. There is a technical service bulletin 0440005. Noticed this problem on september 11, 2005, and should be getting a call from the dealer today. It has done this everyday since noticing noticed the problem.

Filed Apr 9, 2003 · Electrical, Engine · 12,000 miles · NY

While driving at various speeds the transmission would down shift from high gear to lower gear and then lock up. The vehicle would jerk forward and remain in the lowest gear when this happened. The wheel would lock up just prior to being release. The vehicle has been to the dealer who changed the speed sensors 3 months before the transmission was replaced. *nlm the speed sensor was replaced 2 times. The pulse generator was replaced a total of 4 times. The thermostat has also been replaced. Also there was a tire label replacement. Stopper and elr seat belt was installed. Blade fuse and wire repairs. Hood latch cleaned. Dealership most recently found the transmission had internal problems and replaced the transmission and flushed the cooler lines.

Filed Feb 21, 2002 · Acceleration · IL

When driving at times will have trouble accelerateing to higher speeds, and then vehicle will start to jerk before it starts to move.