Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Peugeot 107 . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 Peugeot 107.
Gearbox leak on Peugeot 107, origin and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Peugeot 107. To accomplish 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 validated, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly 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 Peugeot 107?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Peugeot 107, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to determine the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage area 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 Peugeot 107, otherwise you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- At last, 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 Peugeot 107?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Peugeot 107 , 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 manipulation, please browse our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Peugeot 107 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Peugeot 107. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult 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 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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