Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In fact, finding a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Hyundai Santa Fe . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Hyundai Santa Fe.
Gearbox leak on Hyundai Santa Fe, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in fact caused by the gearbox of your Hyundai Santa Fe. 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 caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Hyundai Santa Fe?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Hyundai Santa Fe, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic 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 necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Hyundai Santa Fe, 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 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 Hyundai Santa Fe?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Hyundai Santa Fe , 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 task, please go through our content on this subject.
- 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 Santa Fe gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Hyundai Santa Fe. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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