Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In fact, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso . In this article, 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, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Citroen Grand C4 Picasso.
Gearbox leak on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, origin and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is in truth originating from the gearbox of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car 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 origins 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 the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that in any case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify 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 Grand C4 Picasso, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete 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 Grand C4 Picasso?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso , 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 go through our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance 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 Grand C4 Picasso gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Citroen Grand C4 Picasso. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete 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 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.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen Grand C4 Picasso category.
