Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. In truth, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen C4 Cactus . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Citroen C4 Cactus.
Gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Cactus, source and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Citroen C4 Cactus. To do this, you will need to go under your vehicle 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 incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Cactus?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen C4 Cactus, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having determined 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 broken. 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 technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Citroen C4 Cactus, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
- Finally, 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 C4 Cactus?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen C4 Cactus , 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 read our content on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Citroen C4 Cactus gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Citroen C4 Cactus. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky 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 component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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