Hyundai Tiburon — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 2,106 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)652 (31.0%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1999.
• Air bags (restraint system)324 (15.4%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2003.
• Electrical system150 (7.1%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2006–2008.
• Seat belts148 (7.0%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 1997–2003.
• Tires & wheels92 (4.4%)
• Brakes84 (4.0%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2002–2003.

Other / uncategorized: 54 classifications (2.6%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,524 records, model years 1997–2008) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), air bags (restraint system) and electrical system.
• Manufacturer communications (774 records, model years 1997–2008) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), engine and equipment & accessories.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,088reports included a mileage
• 52,609average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1997 110 records for 1997 110
2. 1998 80 records for 1998 80
3. 1999 84 records for 1999 84
4. 2000 107 records for 2000 107
5. 2001 87 records for 2001 87
6. 2002 38 records for 2002 38
7. 2003 452 records for 2003 452
8. 2004 125 records for 2004 125
9. 2005 82 records for 2005 82
10. 2006 98 records for 2006 98
11. 2007 75 records for 2007 75
12. 2008 52 records for 2008 52

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 198mention a crash
• 18mention a fire
• 138mention an injury
• 6mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 44
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 774
• Investigations NHTSA 3
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 31
• Owner complaints NHTSA 1,524

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0740 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0743 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0750 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0755 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0760 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0765 in 13 records · 1997–2008
• P0717 in 12 records · 1997–2003
• P0741 in 12 records · 1997–2008
• P0742 in 12 records · 1997–2008
• P0748 in 12 records · 1997–2008
• P0722 in 11 records · 1997–2003
• P0705 in 10 records · 1999–2008

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.