Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In actual fact, spotting a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Volkswagen Beetle . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Volkswagen Beetle.
Gearbox leak on Volkswagen Beetle, source and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in truth caused by the gearbox of your Volkswagen Beetle. To get this done, 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 roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly 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 fix a gearbox leak on Volkswagen Beetle?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Volkswagen Beetle, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Volkswagen Beetle, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete 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 Volkswagen Beetle?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Volkswagen Beetle , nevertheless 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 go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Volkswagen Beetle gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Volkswagen Beetle. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic 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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