2003 Hyundai Elantra GT
Summary:
Nice car for the price, some things I would change
Faults:
Paint chips and get eroded by bird droppings easily. Paint already dulling.
Door dings very easily. Many marks on all sides of car.
The tape that holds the wing keeps exposing. The tape around the door pillars kept coming up when the windows rolled up and down. The latter was removed by Hyundai and painted black, covered.
The engine stalled for a brief period of time when the air was on and I came to a stop at stop signs, that was about 10k miles ago, since then it has behaved normally.
General Comments:
Lots of storage.
Cheap.
Lots of extras.
Fast and fuel efficient.
Sporty looking, like a Saab.
Sure it may look like a girl car, but I still like it.
Too dark in the trunk and back seat when lights are needed.
The light scheme is strange, different in the dash then down the center column, red and blue, then green for the latter. Why can't it be consistent???
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 9th June, 2005
12th May 2005, 13:40
May 10, 2005.
I just paid nearly $1000 to a Hyundai dealer to replace the clutch assembly in my 2003 Hyundai Elantra, which I bought in Aug,2003. Mileage at the time of the clutch failure: 26,255.
I've been driving a manual transmission since the 1st day I sat behind the wheel. I don't ride the clutch; I live in an area where there are no hills and 70% of my driving is done on the highway. I know this has to be a defect of some sort... but how can I prove it?
I asked the mechanic to do what he can to establish maufacturing flaws in the clutch. He said it was just worn down. I Just don't believe that my driving habits could wear down a clutch in 26k miles.
Now having driven the car after the repair, I'm convinced there was something wrong from day 1. It feels like an entirely different vehicle.
I plan to battle with Hyundai to get this repair qualified as a warranty service. I was searching the internet for information about the manufacture specs of the Hyundai Elantra clutch when I found this posting.
2 clutches of the same year model fail at the same mileage? That's not A COINCIDENCE. Where there's one there's another and another. We need to find the others and follow this through. I'll bet if we trace the production of our cars, we'd find they were built in the same plant and/or the clutch parts were taken from the same lot.
Thank you.
Doc Paul.