In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Volkswagen Jetta . 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 tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Volkswagen Jetta.

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Gearbox leak on Volkswagen Jetta, origin and symptom

If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Volkswagen Jetta. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, 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 the event that it is cracked or damaged
  • One of your seals damaged

How to fix a gearbox leak on Volkswagen Jetta?

After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Volkswagen Jetta, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. 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 require a high labour cost.
  • If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Volkswagen Jetta, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
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  • 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 Volkswagen Jetta?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Volkswagen Jetta , 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 examine our article on this subject.
  • Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Volkswagen Jetta gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Volkswagen Jetta. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change 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 component will also 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.

Whenever you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Jetta, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Jetta category.