On this page we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Jeep Patriot . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Jeep Patriot.
Gearbox leak on Jeep Patriot, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in fact coming from the gearbox of your Jeep Patriot. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible sources 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 damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Jeep Patriot?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Jeep Patriot, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that no matter the reason, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage 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 necessitate 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 Jeep Patriot, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, 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 Jeep Patriot?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Jeep Patriot , 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 manipulation, please browse our article on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Jeep Patriot gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Jeep Patriot. As you have understood, gearbox problems 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.
If you want more guides on the Jeep Patriot, go to our Jeep Patriot category.
