In this article we will try to help you fix a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Volkswagen Transporter 5.
Gearbox leak on Volkswagen Transporter 5, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is obviously coming from the gearbox of your Volkswagen Transporter 5. 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 coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once affirmed, here are the possible sources 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 fix a gearbox leak on Volkswagen Transporter 5?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Volkswagen Transporter 5, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise 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 distinguish the leak, the 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Volkswagen Transporter 5, 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 just 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 Transporter 5?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 , 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 task, please examine our content 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 locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Volkswagen Transporter 5 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Volkswagen Transporter 5. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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