Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, spotting a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Renault Twizy . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Renault Twizy.
Gearbox leak on Renault Twizy, origin and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact caused by the gearbox of your Renault Twizy. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle 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 origins 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 the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Renault Twizy?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Renault Twizy, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having identified 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 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 technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Renault Twizy, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, 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 Twizy?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Renault Twizy , 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 action, 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 discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Renault Twizy gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Renault Twizy. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and based 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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