Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be annoying, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your hyundai i10 . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 hyundai i10.
Gearbox leak on hyundai i10, origin and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your hyundai i10. To achieve 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 sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on hyundai i10?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your hyundai i10, we will try to explain to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might 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 involve 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 hyundai i10, otherwise you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- Finally, 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 hyundai i10?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your hyundai i10 , 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 read our article on this subject matter.
- 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 hyundai i10 gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a hyundai i10. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is hard 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 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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