2003 HYUNDAI TIBURON — Complaint #576822
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:BELL HOUSING filed March 23, 2006
NHTSA complaint #576822 (ODI reference 10153548) concerns a 2003 HYUNDAI TIBURON and was filed on March 23, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 27, 2005. The vehicle had 15 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:clutch assembly:bell housing, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HYUNDAI TIBURON cohort independently describe similar power train:clutch assembly:bell housing failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2003 HYUNDAI TIBURON shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I BOUGHT A 2003 TIBURON 6/15/05, FOR $14,000 8/27/05 STARTED MAKING GRINDING NOISES, SMOKING,SOUNDED LIKE ENGINE BLEW UP. TOWED TO ROMERO MOTORS, ONTARIO, CLOSEST HYUNDAI DEALER. I HAD ORIGINAL WARRANTY & EXTENDED WARRANTY. ROMERO MOTORS SAID REPLACE CLUTCH $1,400. I COULD NOT AFFORD IT & TOOK TO MY MECHANIC. OPENING ENGINE HOOD THERE WERE METAL SHAVINGS ALL OVER ENGINE, AND IT CUT TRANNY CASE IN HALF. I CALLED CLAREMONT FORD/MAZDA (PURCHASED CAR THERE)AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO BRING IT TO THEM. THEY TOWED IT TO ROMERO MOTORS. I CALLED CLAREMONT FORD/MAZDA AND WAS ADVISED TO CALL ROMERO MOTORS. AGAIN, I WAS TOLD BY ROMERO MOTORS IT WAS CLUTCH WEAR N TEAR ITEM & CLUTCH TOOK OUT TRANSMISSION/NO COVERAGE UNDER WARRANTY. NEW ESTIMATE $3,400.00, AND TO MY HORROR CHARGED $818 TEAR DOWN FEE TO PUT CAR BACK TOGETHER. I AGAIN TOOK IT TO MY MECHANIC, PURCHASED $920 IN PARTS TO FIX PROBLEM PAID MY MECHANIC TO FIX. 100% HYUNDAI PARTS. IT RAN A WEEK AND GEARS WENT OUT, THIS TIME I TOOK I
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 576822 |
| ODI Number | 10153548 |
| Date Filed | March 23, 2006 |
| Failure Date | August 27, 2005 |
| VIN | KMHHM65D63U |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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