Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Ford C-max . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Ford C-max.
Gearbox leak on Ford C-max, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Ford C-max. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just 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 Ford C-max?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Ford C-max, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Be aware that no matter the reason, 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 involve 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 Ford C-max, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete 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 Ford C-max?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Ford C-max , 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 manipulation, please go through our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service 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 Ford C-max gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Ford C-max. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the component will also 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.
If you need more guides on the Ford C-max, go to our Ford C-max category.
