In this article we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. Indeed, spotting a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Citroen Nemo . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Nemo.
Gearbox leak on Citroen Nemo, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact caused by the gearbox of your Citroen Nemo. To achieve 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 affirmed, 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 it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Citroen Nemo?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Citroen Nemo, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might 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 identify the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Citroen Nemo, 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 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 Nemo?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Citroen Nemo , 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 action, please examine our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Citroen Nemo gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Citroen Nemo. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and depending 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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