On this page we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In actual fact, finding a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen Berlingo . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth 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 Citroen Berlingo.

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Gearbox leak on Citroen Berlingo, origin and symptom

If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth based on the gearbox of your Citroen Berlingo. To do 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 affirmed, 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 the event it is cracked or broken
  • One of your seals broken

How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen Berlingo?

After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen Berlingo, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that no matter the reason, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, 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 dismantle your gearbox, which will require 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 Citroen Berlingo, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
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  • 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 Citroen Berlingo?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen Berlingo , 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 read 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 Citroen Berlingo gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Citroen Berlingo. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace 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 part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.

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