I have owned this car for a year and I am extremely disappointed. I have been having transmission problems and the dealer refuses to do anything about it. They added a little transmission fluid and told me that the problem was fixed.
My Accent makes a loud crashing noise when I am driving on inclines or declines. For example, it feels like the transmission disengages when I am coming off an on ramp. It is scary and I believe that the transmission needs work. However, the service personel tell me they do not have time for a test drive to try to reproduce the problem.
I will never buy a car from Hyundai again.
Sounds like the dealer is a schmuck not the manufacturer. What about taking it to another dealer?
You're not the only one that is having this transmission problem. We have a Accent 2000 and it is doing the same thing. The dealership claims this has never happened with any Accent 2000 when they look in their database.
If you want further confirmation that it's not in your head and check out www.epinions.com/auto-reviews and look for a review done by sharp2513 dated May 9, 2000. It appears it's a Smart Transmission problem.
Our 2000 Hyundai Accent GS has the same unpredictable loss of rpm's and loss of power train response. We've had it into the dealer 8 times over the last 10 months. They say they have never heard of this problem, don't know what is causing it but that it should be alright each time we leave. We wrote to the Hyundai Canadian Head Office and complained. Their advice was to take it back to the dealership for the 9th time.
On snowy, icy or rain slicked roads loss of power train response makes handling the car vry tricky and frightening. We're going to log this performance problem on the NHTSA (USA) site to ensure that there is a formal record of this, we feel dangerous performance issue.
We suggest you also report the problem to the NHTSA site. There may be a lot more of us out there that just need to see it in print.
I'm not having any problems with my Accent GS. It does leave a lot to be desired, in the fact that it's kinda hit and miss with the response, but I've done engine work on mine and now it responds great (yes I know kinda doesn't really mean anything for a stock Hyundai). I had no problems from the time I bought it till the time I altered it.
I have a 2001 Accent GL with automatic transmission. I bought my car new and have had nothing but headaches. At 10,500 miles it started jerking fiercely; I took it to the dealer and they replaced the pulse generator. At 21,042 miles it began jerking when it was shifting again and this time they replaced the reed switch, when I picked the car up I got less than 1 mile away when it started jerking again - this time they replaced a cable. At 25,000 I experienced the jerking again; this time my transmission was replaced. At 38,656 miles it started jerking again and another cable was replaced. At 52,300 my plug wires had to be replaced. At about 53,000 miles I was on a long trip when the car locked up in the middle of the road, it was towed to the nearest dealership where I was told the pulse generator would have to be replaced; the next day they called me to say they were replacing the transmission yet again!!! I was stuck for eight hours before I could get back home. My Accent is serviced every 3,000 miles and I have taken excellent care of my piece of junk. any questions email me at sweet_n_moody@hotmail.com.
I have also had the same problem with my 1998 Hyundai Accent GSI that I purchased new. It seems that the transmission slips from 3rd to 4th gear and I have to take my foot off of the gas for it to go back into gear. It seems to slip on inclines and declines. I have also taken mine to the dealership many times and they say that they can't reproduce the problem when it is in for service. I purchased the 10 year 100,000 mile warranty since it wasn't standard in 1998 but is seems that they are trying to keep telling me that there isn't a problem so the warranty will run out and then they will not have to deal with it. I noticed this problem on the NHTSA site so I am going to find all I can on the Internet about this problem and print it all out and hand it to the service people next time they say they have never heard of this problem and then see what they say. I will let you all know if it gets me anywhere. If you also have this problem let me know at seanwithrow@yahoo.com.
Are these transmission problems with auto or manual.
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