Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Peugeot Expert . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously 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 Expert.
Gearbox leak on Peugeot Expert, source and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Peugeot Expert. To do this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins 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 damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Peugeot Expert?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Peugeot Expert, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having distinguished 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 damaged. Nevertheless, 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 take apart 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 Expert, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Expert?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Peugeot Expert , nevertheless 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 manipulation, please go through our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Peugeot Expert gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Peugeot Expert. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change 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 part will also have a different price, nevertheless, 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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