In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. Obviously, distinguishing a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Ford Kuga . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Ford Kuga.
Gearbox leak on Ford Kuga, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Ford Kuga. To accomplish 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 affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Ford Kuga?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Ford Kuga, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Take note that in any 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 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 mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Ford Kuga, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole 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 Ford Kuga?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Ford Kuga , 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 examine our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Ford Kuga gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Ford Kuga. 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 depending on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and depending 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.
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