Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. Indeed, distinguishing a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Dacia Lodgy . Today, 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, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Dacia Lodgy.
Gearbox leak on Dacia Lodgy, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Dacia Lodgy. To accomplish 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 roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just 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 Dacia Lodgy?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Dacia Lodgy, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Dacia Lodgy, otherwise 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 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 Dacia Lodgy?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Dacia Lodgy , 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 browse our content on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Dacia Lodgy gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Dacia Lodgy. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary a lot and based 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.
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