Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In reality, spotting a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat 500 L . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Fiat 500 L.
Gearbox leak on Fiat 500 L, origin and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Fiat 500 L. To get this done, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Fiat 500 L?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat 500 L, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Fiat 500 L, otherwise you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just effective in the case of small leaks, this kit is worth around 40 euros
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Prevention: How to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat 500 L?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat 500 L , nevertheless here are the three most effective:
- Frequent oil changes on your gearbox deck.
- Drain your gearbox and put new oil in it. If you want to know everything about this task, please browse our article on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Fiat 500 L gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Fiat 500 L. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a complete change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the part will also have a different price, nevertheless, we estimate that the repair, labour included will cost you between 800 and 2000 euros , knowing that the part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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