Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In actual fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your skoda yeti . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 skoda yeti.
Gearbox leak on skoda yeti, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in actual fact based on the gearbox of your skoda yeti. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once validated, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on skoda yeti?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your skoda yeti, we will try to describe to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may 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 mechanic 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your skoda yeti, otherwise you’ll have to replace the whole 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 skoda yeti?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your skoda yeti , 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 action, please read our article on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a skoda yeti gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a skoda yeti. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard 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 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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