On this page we will try to help you fix a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, finding a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mercedes Benz M Class . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Mercedes Benz M Class.
Gearbox leak on Mercedes Benz M Class, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Mercedes Benz M Class. 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 established, 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 Mercedes Benz M Class?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mercedes Benz M Class, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Take note that no matter the reason, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, 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 auto mechanic 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 auto mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mercedes Benz M Class, in any other case you’ll have to change 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 Mercedes Benz M Class?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mercedes Benz M Class , 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 action, 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 Mercedes Benz M Class gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Mercedes Benz M Class. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is difficult 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, 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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