Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mercedes Classe V . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Mercedes Classe V.
Gearbox leak on Mercedes Classe V, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Mercedes Classe V. To get this done, 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 origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Mercedes Classe V?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mercedes Classe V, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mercedes Classe V, otherwise you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 Classe V?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mercedes Classe V , 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 task, please examine our article on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance 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 Classe V gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Mercedes Classe V. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky 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 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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