I just bought an 05 Tucson and occasionally I find it hard to shift into 3rd. Anyone else have this problem? Its at 140km

 

Describe "hard to shift into 3rd".

 

As in, 3rd doesn't exist lol I just try jiggling it around and usually end up in 1st or 5th, then I can get it into 3rd. Only happens maybe 40% of the time...

I thought it was just me at first, but I let a friend of mine drive it, and he experienced the same thing...

 

Well, that's a piece of information you didn't originally tell us. Obviously this is a manual transmissio and not an automatic. Telling us that in the first post would have helped.

But I'll ask you again, what do you mean by hard? Is the gate hard to find or is it physically hard to push the shifter into the gate?

 

Its hard to find the gate

 

That's probably just because you aren't used to the car yet. If you just bought it you need to learn the cars unique characteristics. I guess that's one of them.