In this article we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Surely, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Mascott . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Renault Mascott.
Gearbox leak on Renault Mascott, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Renault Mascott. To achieve 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 affirmed, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Renault Mascott?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Mascott, we will try to show you to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require 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 Renault Mascott, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
- At last, 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 Renault Mascott?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Mascott , 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 task, please browse our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Mascott gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Renault Mascott. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage 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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