On this page we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, spotting a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen Cactus . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Cactus.
Gearbox leak on Citroen Cactus, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Citroen 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 roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen Cactus?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen Cactus, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that no matter the reason, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage 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 and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Citroen Cactus, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Cactus?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen Cactus , 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 go through our article on this subject.
- 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 Cactus gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Citroen Cactus. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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