2005 Hyundai Tucson: jerking or lurching

5 of the 185 complaints about the 2005 Hyundai Tucson describe jerking or lurching.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 3%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 17 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Jerking or lurching by model year

2026
3
2025
3
2024
1
2023
4
2022
21
2020
4
2019
11
2018
30
2017
79
2016
120
2015
3
2014
4
2013
4
2012
4
2011
3
2010
6
2008
1
2007
2
2006
4
2005
5

What owners say

Filed Mar 11, 2019 · Engine · 135,000 miles · SC

The first time this happened I was pulling into a parking place in a shopping center. As I was turning into the parking place I very lightly tapped the accelerator and the engine reved up and I applied the brake only to have the car continue forward and go up the cement curb. I then pushed down on the brake pedal as hard as I could and only then did the car stop. If the cement block had not been there, I would have hit the car parked directly in front of me. The front tires had gone about two feet up on the cement block. The next time this happened I was once again parking. This time I was parking parallel to the curb. I pulled into and in front of the space I was going to park in. I put the car in reverse and began to back up slowly with my foot over the brake pedal. Suddenly, the engine reved up and the car lurched backward. This time I applied the brake very hard and I was able to stop my car before I hit car in back of me.

Filed Dec 15, 2010 · Transmission · 60,000 miles · FL

My wife's hyundai tucson (either 2005 or 2006) almost caused an accident today when the acceleration became erratic and then stalled while at an intersection. She immediately brought it into our hyundai service center. I spoke with a service manager to tell him about a tps (throttle position sensor) problem that I have found out about specific to the 05-06 hyundai tucson. I also called hyundai because this problem will not show up as a 'fault code'. I have included here one of many notes found on the internet concerning this same problem: after having our 2006 tucson in the dealer's service shop for over three days, it was determined that the car needed a new tps(throttle position sensor). This was after they contacted hyundai techline and after I suggested that they test the tps as a possible cause (came to this conclusion after reviewing many websites/autoforums. Some facts: you will notice a stuttering or jerking feeling almost as if you had a manual transmission, were downshifting and releasing the clutch quickly when the engine RPM was not matched to the lower gear, or as if you tapped on the brake twice while decelerating. This motion can be either very slight or rather violent (once caused us to be actually pushed against our shoulder seat belt. 1. Almost always occurs when either coasting or decelerating, never when accelerating. 2. Usually happens between 40 -45 MPH. 3. No fault code ever comes up so don't even have the tech waste his time. The service department drove the car for over three total hours to try to get a fault code reading with no results. 4. Car will stall when coming to a stop 50% of the time. 5. Happens when the transmission is warm. 6. Feels like transmission is trying to figure out what gear it wants to go into when decelerating.

Filed Jun 23, 2006 · Acceleration, Electrical · 22,000 miles · NH

Dt*: the contact stated while starting the vehicle, it lurched forward and would not engage into gear. Also while driving, the 4wd light intermittently illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer several times who could not duplicate the problem.

Filed Jun 28, 2005 · Acceleration · NY · crash

2005 hyundai tucson engine revved up and lurched forward while consumer was trying to park.*mr a recall (05v119000) of the automatic stability control was done and the consumer hoped that this would correct the problem but it didn't. After the recall work was done the vehicle hit a handicapped sign while attempting to park damaging his vehicle and another vehicle.

Filed May 29, 2005 · Transmission · TX

I was driving down the highway at 60mph when the vehicle made a loud sound a roughly jerked forward and continued to do so as the car gradually downshifted. The car was found to have a defected transmission control module and they needed to replace the transmission due to this. This vehicle only had approx 5900 miles on it at this time. Recieved the vehile 9 days later and had the car for 1 day when it continued to have more problems related to the transmission. In addition to this problem, the first few days of owning this vehicle I had to stop the vehicle abruptly and the car accelerated instead. I have read that others have experienced something similiar to this in the hyundai sante fe