Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Hyundai Sonata . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Hyundai Sonata.
Gearbox leak on Hyundai Sonata, origin and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in fact coming from the gearbox of your Hyundai Sonata. 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 validated, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Hyundai Sonata?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Hyundai Sonata, we will try to explain to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto technician 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 technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Hyundai Sonata, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just powerful 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 Sonata?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Hyundai Sonata , 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 examine our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Hyundai Sonata gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Hyundai Sonata. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the component will as well 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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