Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mitsubishi L200 . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed 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 Mitsubishi L200.

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Gearbox leak on Mitsubishi L200, origin and manifestation

If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed caused by the gearbox of your Mitsubishi L200. 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 affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:

  • A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
  • Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
  • From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
  • One of your seals damaged

How to fix a gearbox leak on Mitsubishi L200?

After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mitsubishi L200, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might 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 technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
  • If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mitsubishi L200, otherwise 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 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 Mitsubishi L200?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mitsubishi L200 , 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 browse our content page on this subject.
  • Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Mitsubishi L200 gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Mitsubishi L200. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite 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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