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#47 of 172 Here I am again, just 11 months later.... by vahmed

Sep 05, 2008 (7:05 am)

My advice to anyone who is having clutch and flywheel problems is to get rid of that LEMON!! I posted a message in this forum just 11 months ago and I have to replace the damn thing again..My clutch did not even last one year..and again the price is going to be $2000+ to fix this piece of crap..I bought my Tiburon in December of 2006 and it is now September of 2008 and I have probably spent upwards of $6000 on maintenance and repairs for faulty parts and I have not even had the car for 2 years yet..
 
Not to mention my defective airbag and seatbelt sensors, this car is the epitome of a lemon and I regret the day I ever bought it..Hyundai USA is a horrible company and one day they are going to lose all credibility which is really a stupid business move..
 
I am looking into just dumping this car and getting into something more reliable because I simply can not afford another HUGE problem. In the economy we are living in today, how in the world am I supposed to have enough money to get all of this fixed????

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#48 of 172 STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!! by nado2036

Sep 05, 2008 (9:31 am)

STAY AWAY FROM THIS CAR. I just got told that my clutch is bad in my 03 hyundai tiburon for the third time in 45,000 miles. Of course Hyundai will not cover and will not return a phone call. Get rid of this car while it is running becuase the clutch will go out on you every year and cost you at least $1100 every time and that is only if you buy the parts and find a cheap mechanic.

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#49 of 172 I know what you're going through. by 8428tiburon

Oct 07, 2008 (4:28 am)

Replying to: vahmed (Sep 05, 2008 7:05 am)

I'm Farouq and a first time poster. Brand new to this site and can't believe all of these familiar stories that I've been reading. I am currently financing a 06 tiburon gs and have had so many different problems with this car. I traded in my fabalous but stead fast depreciating mercury milan for this financial black hole that we call a tiburon. Since I've had this poor excuse for a car: I've had the radio replaced under warrenty, the sun roof re-serviced multiply times, also under warrenty, and finally the clutch needed to be replaced 35000 miles into it's pathetic existence, however clutch wasn't covered under warrenty of course. As we've heard time and time again, it's considered a "wear item". When the problem first gained my attention, it was intermittent. Now and again I would notice a grinding feeling and noise when ever I would shift from 1st into 2nd or when ever I down shifted into 2nd. In addition, if I sat at a light for some time and idled in nuetral, I would have the worst time trying to engage 1st gear when ever it was time to take off. I told my self that the clutch was touchie. So I would rev up ever so slightly just to manage getting it into gear. I brought the car in immediately to the dealerships service department thinking that what ever the problem was the warrenty would cover it. However, during the first visit the problem was SO intermittent that they couldn't get the clutch to behave in the way that I had describe to them. I was told to bring it back in when the problem worsend. I'm 26 years old and I've had a permit at 15, a license at 16, and been pilot of a manual transmission vehical since 17. Still, to eliminate any possibility of "driver error" I tested the car with other even more experienced drivers. At first like I said before, the problem was come and go but, I was able to pin point a frame in which the clutch would act up more often. Which was any time that I or any one else would shift from1st to 2nd 5-6000 rpm, the grinding would occur almost every time. So I brought the car back into the dealership to explain my new discoveries in order to prevent from having to wait for the problem to worsen resulting in major parts having to be replaced which in turn would cause me to be down one of my two much needed automobiles. I was unsuccessful at my attempt to implement any preventive medicine regarding this matter and was once again sent away because they couldn't realize a problem therefore they couldn't fixed the problem. To make matters worse instead of words of encouragement and understanding I was sent away with " well these tiburons aren't designed for high speed shifting" After I tried to help THEM locate the problem.! I left still not knowing that when ever the problem did surface that it wouldn't be covered by warrenty. I continued driving the car easy as possible until finally the clutch got so bad that it ground every time that it was shift between the first three of my five fantastic gears. Also, I started experiencing slippage. When I got it in to gear any gear I noticed that when ever I would press the throttle the car would near immediately red line. This is a problem when the clutch is fully engaged. I live in Ocala Florida yet I work in Gainesville. Those of us who know, understand that it is a 45 minute drive once you hit the interstate. This happens when I'm half way home. So obviously those had to be the signs that our beloved Jenkins Hyundai of Ocala needed to see before they could fix the problem. I get the car into the shop early that next morning only to find out that : the entire clutch system needs to be replaced, which includes, disc assy-clutch, bearing-clutch re, cover assy-clutch, bolt-flywheel, it's not cover under warrenty it's considered to a wear item, the bill would be $1300, didn't have the parts on hand, it would be a week before they even received the parts needed, and last but not least to add insult to injury since it wasn't a warrenty issue there would be no loaner car offered. $1275.00 later ( because I brought the Car Care Coupons) I had a new factory clutch put in. Any thing done to that car was done by the factory in order to not void the warrenty that I still am under today. The work was completed back in 08-08-08. It's now 10-07-08 and once again I'm experiencing the beginning stages of this gargantuan disaster for the second time, Which brings me to this point obviously I can't dump the car now, it's not paid off, I'm already upside down from the previous trade in, it's not under my name, if I were to attempt to trade again I would have Gallardo payments driving in a used 02 Civic, what should I do? Second questioned is that those of us that have replaced their clutch more than once already, why did you come out the pocket for it? If when the first or any time you paid to get the clutch replaced, it then becomes guaranteed and falls under a temp warrenty for up to 12 months or 12000 miles which ever comes first. So if it went bad again with in that time table you should've been able to have it replace again for free right? At the very least that would have bought you some time to dump the car and pick up something else before you had to put any money into it again. I used to a die hard hyundai fan. I even looked foward to the 2010 rwd Genesis coup that will be replacing the tiburon line. I even had it as my screen saver. But now I'm so scared that I'm about to be screwd over that I hate hyundai with a passion. I'm a full time waiter working only part time hours. A husband, a father, and can't afford this shit right now. Please any advise is welcome.

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#50 of 172 clutch by swapnilb

Oct 07, 2008 (7:15 pm)

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#51 of 172 by swapnilb

Oct 08, 2008 (11:16 am)

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#52 of 172 Re: [swapnilb] by deangarris

Oct 08, 2008 (12:54 pm)

Replying to: swapnilb (Oct 08, 2008 11:16 am)

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#53 of 172 Re: Anybody having clutch problems with 2007 Tiburons? [davgird] by callreed

Dec 02, 2008 (10:27 pm)

Replying to: davgird (Oct 16, 2007 10:42 am)

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#54 of 172 je oggero by joeogg

Dec 19, 2008 (1:04 pm)

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#55 of 172 hyundai tiburon by joeogg

Dec 19, 2008 (1:07 pm)

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#56 of 172 Re: STAY AWAY from this car! [deangarris] by Kumdo0770

Dec 27, 2008 (12:24 pm)

Replying to: deangarris (May 21, 2006 6:52 pm)

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