Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Scenic . Today, we’re going to help you confirm 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 indication of the price of the gearbox of a Renault Scenic.
Gearbox leak on Renault Scenic, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth caused by the gearbox of your Renault Scenic. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by 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 Scenic?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Scenic, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. 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 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 Scenic, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole 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 Scenic?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Scenic , 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 go through our article on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Scenic gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Renault Scenic. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the part will as well have a different price, however, 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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