On this page we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be annoying, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. Indeed, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Twingo 2 . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Renault Twingo 2.
Gearbox leak on Renault Twingo 2, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Renault Twingo 2. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Renault Twingo 2?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Twingo 2, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the auto technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Renault Twingo 2, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only effective 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 Twingo 2?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Twingo 2 , 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 manipulation, please read our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Twingo 2 gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Renault Twingo 2. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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