Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Surely, spotting a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Opel Mokka . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Opel Mokka.
Gearbox leak on Opel Mokka, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in fact originating from the gearbox of your Opel Mokka. To do this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible origins 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 the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Opel Mokka?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Opel Mokka, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Opel Mokka, otherwise you’ll have to replace the complete 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 Opel Mokka?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Opel Mokka , 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 action, please examine our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Opel Mokka gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Opel Mokka. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the part will as well have a different price, however, 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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