general problems of the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon

2000 Hyundai Tiburon. Consumer writes in regards to seat belt safety recall. The consumer stated the seat belt was repaired, but the failure recurred.

The contact owns a 2000 Hyundai Tiburon. The contact stated that there were several failures that progressed and recurred without warning. The vehicle was taken to the authorized dealer who replaced the charcoal canisters twice and the failure recurred in which there were strong fumes that emitted into the vehicle. The rear passenger side wheel bearing was replaced, the ignition switch was replaced more than once, and the key was still not communicating to turn over into a start position without several attempts. The contact also indicated that there was an electrical short in which the day time running lights flickered, were low at times, and were replaced more than ten times; however, the failure recurred intermittently. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle was included in NHTSA campaign number: 01v345000 (seat belts) and received the recall repair; however, the seat belt was constricting while moving and it would not retract unless the driver side seat belt was unbuckled. The dealer stated that the motor mounts needed to be replaced as well. The vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign numbers: 04v369000 (fuel system, gasoline) and 04v178000 (fuel system, gasoline). The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 80,000.

2000 Hyundai Tiburon problems with seat belts. Both passenger and driver side seat belts do not function as they are supposed to. The belts get stuck in their harnesses and you can't pull-out or put it back. You have to adjust the harness and the stuck belt to be able to get it to work. The car has already been through one recall on this issue but the repair did not fix the issue. This has been a problem since the first day I bought the car in December 2008.

Consumer has not been able to get recall of seat belt repaired because dealers did not have the parts to repair them.

I purchased a 2000 Tiburon approx. June 2001 with 9600 miles already. Since I bought it I've been finding problems and I've taken it for service about 7 times already. They've replaced the lamp above on the roof that melted and broke once, they fixed the vessel glass 3 times already because it keeps cracking, while replacing the vessel glass (the glass that protects the odometer and other needless indicators) they broke my ac, heater, cruise control, rear defrost, front defrost. The seat belt was a recall. Until now the car is in the shop getting the ac, defrost problem fixed.