On this page we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat Idea . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Fiat Idea.
Gearbox leak on Fiat Idea, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Fiat Idea. To get this done, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Fiat Idea?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat Idea, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, 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 mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Fiat Idea, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only powerful 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 Idea?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat Idea , 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 task, please read our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Fiat Idea gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Fiat Idea. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the component will as well 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.
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