Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In reality, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Audi A1 . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 Audi A1.

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Gearbox leak on Audi A1, source and symptom

If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Audi A1. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle 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 improperly screwed on…
  • Defective torque converter: Only equipped 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 Audi A1?

After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Audi A1, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage area to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the garage area 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 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 Audi A1, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
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  • 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 Audi A1?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Audi A1 , however here are the three most effective:

  • Regular 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 matter.
  • Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Audi A1 gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Audi A1. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and based 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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