On this page we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat Punto Evo . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Fiat Punto Evo.
Gearbox leak on Fiat Punto Evo, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in truth based on the gearbox of your Fiat Punto Evo. To do this, 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 verified, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly 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 Punto Evo?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat Punto Evo, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage 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 require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Fiat Punto Evo, otherwise 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 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 Punto Evo?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat Punto Evo , however 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 action, please go through our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Fiat Punto Evo gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Fiat Punto Evo. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also have a different price, however, 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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