In this article we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In fact, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Maserati Levante . In this article, we’re going to help you verify 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 Maserati Levante.
Gearbox leak on Maserati Levante, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously coming from the gearbox of your Maserati Levante. To do 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 affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly 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 repair a gearbox leak on Maserati Levante?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Maserati Levante, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact source 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 distinguish the leak, the auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Maserati Levante, otherwise you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Maserati Levante?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Maserati Levante , 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 content on this subject.
- 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 Maserati Levante gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Maserati Levante. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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