Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not managed in 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 Jeep Renegade . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Renegade.
Gearbox leak on Jeep Renegade, origin and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is obviously coming from the gearbox of your Jeep Renegade. To accomplish this, 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 affirmed, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Jeep Renegade?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Jeep Renegade, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic 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 mechanic 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 necessitate 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 Jeep Renegade, 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 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 Jeep Renegade?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Jeep Renegade , 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 browse our article on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance 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 Renegade gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Jeep Renegade. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic 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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