In this article we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be annoying, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In actual fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Peugeot 5008 . Today, we’re going to help you ensure 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 idea of the price of the gearbox of a Peugeot 5008.
Gearbox leak on Peugeot 5008, source and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in fact coming from the gearbox of your Peugeot 5008. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from 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: 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 Peugeot 5008?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Peugeot 5008, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case 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 identify the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Peugeot 5008, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- 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 Peugeot 5008?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Peugeot 5008 , however here are the three most effective:
- Regular 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 on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Peugeot 5008 gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Peugeot 5008. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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