Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In fact, finding a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s obviously 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 C4 Picasso 2.
Gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Picasso 2, source and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is obviously caused by the gearbox of your Citroen C4 Picasso 2. 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 confirmed, 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 it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Picasso 2?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen C4 Picasso 2, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish 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 distinguish the leak, the auto mechanic will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate 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 C4 Picasso 2, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- 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 Citroen C4 Picasso 2?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen C4 Picasso 2 , nevertheless 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 read our article on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Citroen C4 Picasso 2 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Citroen C4 Picasso 2. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard 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 part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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