Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Fiat Doblo Cargo . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Fiat Doblo Cargo.

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Gearbox leak on Fiat Doblo Cargo, origin and symptom

If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Fiat Doblo Cargo. To get this done, 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 verified, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:

  • A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
  • Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
  • From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
  • One of your seals damaged

How to fix a gearbox leak on Fiat Doblo Cargo?

After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Fiat Doblo Cargo, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that whatever the 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 might 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 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 Fiat Doblo Cargo, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • At last, 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 Fiat Doblo Cargo?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Fiat Doblo Cargo , 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 read our content on this subject.
  • Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Fiat Doblo Cargo gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Fiat Doblo Cargo. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the part will also 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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