Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In reality, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen C4 Spacetourer . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Citroen C4 Spacetourer.
Gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Spacetourer, source and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously originating from the gearbox of your Citroen C4 Spacetourer. To achieve 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 confirmed, 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 that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen C4 Spacetourer?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen C4 Spacetourer, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the auto technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Citroen C4 Spacetourer, 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 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 C4 Spacetourer?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen C4 Spacetourer , 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 go through our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Citroen C4 Spacetourer gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Citroen C4 Spacetourer. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending 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.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Citroen C4 Spacetourer, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen C4 Spacetourer category.
