In this article we will try to help you fix a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, finding a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen C3 Pluriel . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Citroen C3 Pluriel.
Gearbox leak on Citroen C3 Pluriel, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed originating from the gearbox of your Citroen C3 Pluriel. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from 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 case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Citroen C3 Pluriel?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen C3 Pluriel, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the auto mechanic will have to take apart your gearbox, which will involve 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 C3 Pluriel, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 Citroen C3 Pluriel?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen C3 Pluriel , 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 manipulation, please browse our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular 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 Citroen C3 Pluriel gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Citroen C3 Pluriel. 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 garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also have a different price, nevertheless, 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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