Hyundai has been very good about fixing manufacturer’s defects under
warranty. The problem with the clutch disc is that it’s not covered
against wear beyond the 1 year/12,000 mile adjustment period.

I’ve repaired a couple of these that I thought would be wear issues,
but when I got the transmission and clutch out found that a piece had
come off the flywheel or some other defect actually occurred leading
to the clutch issue. Customers are definitely happy to hear "found a
defect, Hyundai will pay for repairs.

"Deck" wrote
> After reading all the horror stories about the 03 Tiberon
> clutch/flywheel
> problems, that Hyundai WON"T fix, just wondering af they are
> fixing any
> other problems with drive trains on their cars under the
> 100,000 mile
> warranty? Now that I have two Hyundai's, I shudder to think
> that they
> won't honor warranties!

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"Matt Whiting" <whiting@epix.net> wrote in message
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> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>> "Matt Whiting" <whiting@epix.net> wrote in message
>>
>>>The problem is that most drivers today aren't taught how to drive a
>>>standard shift car properly. I ride with people all of the time that
>>>make me cringe when they start out and shift, but up and down. The rev
>>>to 2500 RPM when the light turns green and then feed in the clutch slowly
>>>to get a fast launch. This is fine for the drag strip, but wears both
>>>clutch and pressure plate heavily and can cause heat damage if done in
>>>succession too many times. And when upshifting they get on th throttle
>>>before engaging the clutch and the car lurches forward as the inertia in
>>>the engine is dissipated. And then on the downshifts, there is no
>>>blipping of the throttle to match the flywheel speed to the input shaft
>>>speed and slippage occurs again.
>>
>>
>> I know lots of drivers that have never driven a standard transmission,
>> and never will.
>>
>> OTOH, I got a free lunch a few months back. I took the company pickup, a
>> Silverado with 5 speed and bet the guy I was with that I could drive to
>> the restaurant and only use the clutch to start out and when I stopped.
>> He said it was impossible. He bought lunch.
>
> If I can park on a slight grade, I don't need the clutch at all! :-)
>
> However, this is still pretty rough on the synchros and I wouldn't
> recommend it as a normal course of action. :-)
>
>
> Matt




You guys are right on in your comments. It can be done to shift not using
the clutch, but I don't do it except to illustrate to the kids it can
happen! Speaking of kids, I'm teaching them to drive a standard shift Ford
Ranger.....it has 84 HP......talk about slipping the clutch. If you can
learn to operate the clutch with that kind of power, you can learn "feel"
any clutch.

 

"Deck" <decan9@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I wasn't asking about the clutch. It is documented that it is a faulty
> design. The question WAS: Have you had any warranty repairs on ANY drive
> train parts that Hyundai actually paid for???
>

Focus Guys??? That sort of thing can easily bring about a less than
complimentary string of responses. Have you tried looking through the
archives of this newsgroup? I believe a google search will probably turn up
some threads that will answer your question.

In short - yes, people have reported drive train repairs that Hyundai
covered. Whether that satisfies your question is impossible to tell, but it
does answer the question asked.

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Deck wrote:
> I wasn't asking about the clutch. It is documented that it is a faulty
> design. The question WAS: Have you had any warranty repairs on ANY drive
> train parts that Hyundai actually paid for???
>

Where is that documentation?

Matt

 

the fact that they completely changed the design of the clutch/flywheel on
2005 models, plus go to:
http://espanol.autobytel.com/content...dex.cfm/action...
See all the problems..plus so many complaints that a class action suit is
being compiled

 

Deck wrote:
> the fact that they completely changed the design of the clutch/flywheel on
> 2005 models, plus go to:
> http://espanol.autobytel.com/content...dex.cfm/action...
> See all the problems..plus so many complaints that a class action suit is
> being compiled
>

Neither of this is documentation that a design problem exists or
existed. Class action suits get filed all of the time when nothing is
wrong. It only takes enough lawyers to smell blood.

What was the essence of the redesign in 2005? I didn't see anything
about this at the link above, but I didn't go through all 319 posts either.


Matt

 

By: Brandi - Post Date: Oct-06-2006


When my clutch went out of my 03 Tiburon. I was absolutely prepared to pay
for a new clutch..what I had problems with was the fact that they were
telling me I had to pay $936.00 for a new flywheel becasue the original
flywheel wouldn't bolt up to the new clutch systems. Reason being... in
March of 03 Hyundai redesigned the clutch and flywheel system on the 03
models and they quit making the original replacement parts for the clutch.
So the ONLY way I could get a new clutch put in was to replace the flywheel
as well...and I don't believe that's fair...THEY are the ones that
REDESINED the clutch and flywheel system so THEY should be responsible for
replacing the parts that don't fit now because of THEIR redesign!! In my
opinion...they wouldn't have spent the time or the money to redesign
something that didn't have some type of malfunction to begin with... SO it
should on THEIR BIll...and it's rediculous to think they are expecting
people to pay almost $2,000.00 to fix THEIR mistake to begin with...

 

Deck wrote:
> By: Brandi - Post Date: Oct-06-2006
>
>
> When my clutch went out of my 03 Tiburon. I was absolutely prepared to pay
> for a new clutch..what I had problems with was the fact that they were
> telling me I had to pay $936.00 for a new flywheel becasue the original
> flywheel wouldn't bolt up to the new clutch systems. Reason being... in
> March of 03 Hyundai redesigned the clutch and flywheel system on the 03
> models and they quit making the original replacement parts for the clutch.
> So the ONLY way I could get a new clutch put in was to replace the flywheel
> as well...and I don't believe that's fair...THEY are the ones that
> REDESINED the clutch and flywheel system so THEY should be responsible for
> replacing the parts that don't fit now because of THEIR redesign!! In my
> opinion...they wouldn't have spent the time or the money to redesign
> something that didn't have some type of malfunction to begin with... SO it
> should on THEIR BIll...and it's rediculous to think they are expecting
> people to pay almost $2,000.00 to fix THEIR mistake to begin with...
>
>

I agree that they should have had the parts required for your car or
provided the newly designed parts for free.

Matt

 

Deck wrote:
> I wasn't asking about the clutch. It is documented that it is a faulty
> design. The question WAS: Have you had any warranty repairs on ANY drive
> train parts that Hyundai actually paid for???

Sure, they rebuilt the transmission in my Excel, even though it had 64K
miles and only a 60K mile warranty.

 

Deck wrote:
> By: Brandi - Post Date: Oct-06-2006
>
>
> When my clutch went out of my 03 Tiburon. I was absolutely prepared to pay
> for a new clutch..what I had problems with was the fact that they were
> telling me I had to pay $936.00 for a new flywheel becasue the original
> flywheel wouldn't bolt up to the new clutch systems. Reason being... in
> March of 03 Hyundai redesigned the clutch and flywheel system on the 03
> models and they quit making the original replacement parts for the clutch.
> So the ONLY way I could get a new clutch put in was to replace the flywheel
> as well...and I don't believe that's fair...THEY are the ones that
> REDESINED the clutch and flywheel system so THEY should be responsible for
> replacing the parts that don't fit now because of THEIR redesign!! In my
> opinion...they wouldn't have spent the time or the money to redesign
> something that didn't have some type of malfunction to begin with... SO it
> should on THEIR BIll...and it's rediculous to think they are expecting
> people to pay almost $2,000.00 to fix THEIR mistake to begin with...

Did you talk to Hyundai directly or to a dealer? I suspect the latter.