On this page we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, spotting a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat 500X . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Fiat 500X.
Gearbox leak on Fiat 500X, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed originating from the gearbox of your Fiat 500X. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Fiat 500X?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat 500X, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that no matter the reason, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might 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 auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Fiat 500X, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 500X?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat 500X , nevertheless here are the three most effective:
- Regular oil changes on your gearbox deck.
- Drain your gearbox and put new oil in it. If you want to know everything about this manipulation, please examine our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Fiat 500X gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Fiat 500X. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete replace 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 component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
To get more tips on the Fiat 500X, take a look at the Fiat 500X category.
