I'm thinking of buying one of these. Any reviews on this vehicle?

 

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:39:49 GMT, JustSomeGuy staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> I'm thinking of buying one of these [2003 Tiburons]. Any reviews on
> this vehicle?

Hm. Did you try Googling for "2003 Tiburon review"? The car is sold as
the "Tiburon" in North America, and the "Tuscani" in Korea and
elsewhere, and since you're posting from .ca , I assume you're looking
for a Tiburon. You can buy Tuscani emblems for reasonable prices in the
aftermarket and attach them without much trouble if you want people to
see your car and say, "What the @#$% *is* that?"

edmunds.com has some pretty well-done reviews. More biased reviews (as
well as a YABBSE-powered discussion site) can be found on newtiburon.com
..

Or were you looking for "personal experiences with the 2003 Tiburon"
from the folks on this newsgroup? Whatever you're looking for, you'll
get better answers to your questions if make it clear what you're
interested in. I've had my 2003 GT V6 Tiburon for 3 months now, so
here's what I've found:

PRO:
Good price, good warranty
Body style is very nice
More cargo space than you'd expect
Good acceleration, reasonable power (comparatively, your Tiburon is not
going to beat a Vette unless you have an arseload of expensive
aftermarket mods)

CON:
Backseat practically nonexistent
Lots of reports of clutch problems with V6 manual-trannys
You feel every pothole/bump in the road
Long-term repair record unknown since a lot changed between the 2001 and
the 2003 models

WRT winter driving, I've heard from a guy in Connecticut that his
Tiburon was reasonably good in a 100" winter. If you get much more snow
than that, either make the Tiburon your summer car or buy something
else--I know I wouldn't have bought a Tib if I still lived in the U.P.
The optional 17" wheels will *not* take snow tires AFAIK, so you've got
to get a spare set of wheels and tires if you want to drive on the 17"s
in summer. HTH, HAND.

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else.

 

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:57:02 GMT, JustSomeGuy staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Please retain attributions when following up. Attributions restored.

> Dances With Crows wrote:
>> Or were you looking for "personal experiences with the 2003 Tiburon"
>> from the folks on this newsgroup?
> Yep, just some personal experience. Here in Canada the Tiburon come
> in a model called the Tuscany, V6 6-Speed Tranny, Yellow. With a few
> interior bonuses over the Tiburon.

Damn, first you get a better health-care system, then you get better
cars available. I'm going to practice my Canadian accent, eh, and learn
to like poutine :-] .

> You mentioned some problems with the transmission? What's with that?

Not transmission, clutch. Scuttlebutt from a fair number of people on
newtiburon.com says that the clutch on the 2003 V6 Tiburon/Tuscani wears
out *very* quickly, like at 13,000 miles, and of course it's not covered
under warranty. Some say that they used the same clutch on the V6 that
they used on the I4, so various parts wear out much faster than they
should.

> Is there an on board diagnostic II port?

Yes.

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
"Depress the button," it said. Gloria looked at the button. "You're a
very ugly button," she began. --Phil Janes, _The Galaxy Game_

 

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<slrnbgpbfh.pbd.danceswithcrows@samantha.crow202.d yndns.org>, Dances
With Crows <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:57:02 GMT, JustSomeGuy staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
>
> Please retain attributions when following up. Attributions restored.
>
> > Dances With Crows wrote:
> >> Or were you looking for "personal experiences with the 2003 Tiburon"
> >> from the folks on this newsgroup?
> > Yep, just some personal experience. Here in Canada the Tiburon come
> > in a model called the Tuscany, V6 6-Speed Tranny, Yellow. With a few
> > interior bonuses over the Tiburon.
>
> Damn, first you get a better health-care system, then you get better
> cars available. I'm going to practice my Canadian accent, eh, and learn
> to like poutine :-] .

They also get a much shorter standard warranty than we do in the
States. So don't move just yet...

--
Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>
2003 Chianti Red Elantra GT
When replying by e-mail, use plain text ONLY to make sure I read it.
Due to spam and viruses, I filter all mail with HTML or attachments.

 

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:56:42 GMT, JustSomeGuy staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Your NNTP client's news composer (or you yourself) are trimming
attributions. Please don't do that. It's not a real problem in this
thread, but a thread with lots of different people talking gets *very*
confusing to read unless attributions are retained.

> Dances with Crows wrote:
>> I'm going to practice my Canadian accent, eh, and learn to like
>> poutine :-] .
> Oui Oui Tabernac! But you know what dey say about da Poutine... You
> Put In but it don't come out... (you get fat)

Yeah. Well, all things in moderation, right?

>> > You mentioned some problems with the transmission? What's with
>> > that?
>> Not transmission, clutch. Scuttlebutt from a fair number of people
>> on newtiburon.com says that the clutch on the 2003 V6 Tiburon/Tuscani
>> wears out *very* quickly, like at 13,000 miles, and of course it's
>> not covered under warranty.
> Thats not good news... What about an extended waranty on the clutch?

Good question. The regular warranty does not cover "wearable items",
and the clutch is a wearable item. An extended warranty *might*; it
depends on the exact terms of said warranty and maybe what you can wring
out of the salesweasel. Some folks on newtiburon.com have said that
they replaced the stock clutch with an aftermarket racing clutch at
about 13,000 miles, and had no problems after that. That's an option,
but it'd probably be more $ than you'd like to spend (unless you're
planning on racing this car.)

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"We should have a policy against using personal resources for company
business." "The Company didn't pay for these pants, so I'm taking them
off at the door!" --J. Moore and A. DeBoer, the Monastery