Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mitsubishi Asx . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Mitsubishi Asx.

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Gearbox leak on Mitsubishi Asx, origin and manifestation

If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth caused by the gearbox of your Mitsubishi Asx. To achieve this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once validated, here are the possible roots 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 case it is cracked or broken
  • One of your seals broken

How to repair a gearbox leak on Mitsubishi Asx?

After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mitsubishi Asx, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Be aware that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:

  • Very often to identify the leak, the 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mitsubishi Asx, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
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  • 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 Mitsubishi Asx?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mitsubishi Asx , however 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 read our content page on this subject.
  • Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Mitsubishi Asx gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Mitsubishi Asx. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace 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 component will also have a different price, however, 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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