Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat Panda 3 . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in actual fact 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 Panda 3.
Gearbox leak on Fiat Panda 3, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact coming from the gearbox of your Fiat Panda 3. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible sources 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 that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Fiat Panda 3?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat Panda 3, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish 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 distinguish the leak, the auto mechanic 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Fiat Panda 3, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- Finally, 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 Panda 3?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat Panda 3 , 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 manipulation, please examine our content on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service 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 Panda 3 gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Fiat Panda 3. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a complete change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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