Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. Indeed, spotting a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mercedes Benz S Class . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Mercedes Benz S Class.
Gearbox leak on Mercedes Benz S Class, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Mercedes Benz S Class. To do this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Mercedes Benz S Class?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mercedes Benz S Class, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle 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 S Class, 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 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 Mercedes Benz S Class?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mercedes Benz S Class , nevertheless here are the three most effective:
- Frequent 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 page 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 locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Mercedes Benz S Class gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Mercedes Benz S Class. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the part will as well 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 need more guides on the Mercedes Benz S Class, go to our Mercedes Benz S Class category.
