On this page we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be annoying, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In reality, spotting a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Master 3 . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Renault Master 3.
Gearbox leak on Renault Master 3, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Renault Master 3. To achieve 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 established, here are the possible sources 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 Renault Master 3?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Master 3, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the 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 technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Renault Master 3, otherwise 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 Master 3?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Master 3 , 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 task, please browse our content on this subject.
- Use a particular 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 Master 3 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Renault Master 3. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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