Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. Obviously, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Grand Espace . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 Renault Grand Espace.
Gearbox leak on Renault Grand Espace, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Renault Grand Espace. To get this done, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, 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 case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Renault Grand Espace?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Grand Espace, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Renault Grand Espace, 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 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 Renault Grand Espace?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Grand Espace , nevertheless 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 go through our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Grand Espace gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Renault Grand Espace. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the part will as well 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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