2003 Hyundai Accent GL from North America - Comments

29th Dec 2004, 11:21

"The jury is still out, but it doesn't look good :- ("

What things have gone wrong with the car?

The air bag light recently came on for no reason.

The clutch went at 20,000 miles.

General comments?

I bought a nissan sentra with 30,000 miles. I drove until 120,000 miles and never had a problem with the clutch. Considering that this is a hydraulic clutch in this car, if this keeps happening I will spend a small fortune on clutches. This Hyundai is not the first manual car I owned and I haven't been rough on the clutch. I just read another review where an Accent owner had their clutch changed at 40,000. The dealer told me when I bought the car that the clutch should be good for around 80,000 miles.


28th Mar 2005, 22:49

I bought a 2004 Accent GS with the 5-speed for my job as a courier; I put ~300KM on my car every day 5-6 days/week for work and another 20-100KM/day on my days off. I've currently got 63,000KM on the car (bought approximately 10 months ago) and the clutch is as responsive as ever. I only just flushed the clutch fluid when it became dark (black) about 1000KMs ago.

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17th Oct 2005, 12:10

My Hyundai Accent refused to shift during the first winter I owned it. It was a very cold snap of -30C for a few weeks. Took it back to the dealer and after a t-fluid change, it was back to its responsive self. Two years later, I've had no other problems with the clutch or transmission.

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2nd Nov 2006, 18:14

-30c?!? That's live -70f. That's ridiculous, no vehicle was ever manufactured to run in that condition. Anti-freeze will freeze before that! Brake fluid (dot 3) freezes at that temperature. The fact that the car started is remarkable in itself.

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11th May 2007, 11:14

Haha obviously the person who commented above is not Canadian.

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25th Apr 2008, 11:30

-30 C is only -22 F, and yes all cars should run at that temperature. 99% of them still work fine at -60 F. You just make sure you use synthetics and light grades...no problem.

Brian

Fox, Alaska.

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