In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. In reality, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Ford Ecosport . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Ford Ecosport.
Gearbox leak on Ford Ecosport, origin and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Ford Ecosport. To get this done, you will need to go under your car 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 roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Ford Ecosport?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Ford Ecosport, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. 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 take apart 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 Ford Ecosport, 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 Ford Ecosport?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Ford Ecosport , however 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 manipulation, please examine our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Ford Ecosport gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Ford Ecosport. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and based 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.
Whenever you have any further questions about the Ford Ecosport, do not hesitate to consult our Ford Ecosport category.
