In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, spotting a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Kia Picanto . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed 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 Kia Picanto.
Gearbox leak on Kia Picanto, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed caused by the gearbox of your Kia Picanto. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle 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 present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Kia Picanto?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Kia Picanto, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that no matter the reason, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. 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 mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Kia Picanto, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Kia Picanto?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Kia Picanto , 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 read our article on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Kia Picanto gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Kia Picanto. As you have understood, 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 mechanic the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the component will as well 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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