Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In truth, spotting a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Maxity . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm 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 Renault Maxity.
Gearbox leak on Renault Maxity, origin and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is in fact originating from the gearbox of your Renault Maxity. To do this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Renault Maxity?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Maxity, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the auto technician 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 technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Renault Maxity, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete 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 Maxity?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Maxity , 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 task, please read our article on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Maxity gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Renault Maxity. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary 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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