On this page we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Seat Ateca . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Seat Ateca.
Gearbox leak on Seat Ateca, origin and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is in actual fact caused by the gearbox of your Seat Ateca. To do 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 affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only 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 Seat Ateca?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Seat Ateca, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Seat Ateca, 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 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 Seat Ateca?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Seat Ateca , 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 content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Seat Ateca gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Seat Ateca. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a complete change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary 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.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Seat Ateca, do not hesitate to consult our Seat Ateca category.
