Hi
I have a fiat seicento 1.1s 2000y. It is leaking oil from inner cv boot. The oil is clear and has a strong smell, hence most likely gearbox oil. I showed it around to few garages and finally got work done on it at nationwide auto centre, bristol. The garage replaced the inner cv joint gaiter, drained gearbox and topped it up with 75w90. total bill =A380. Within two days the oil leak is back. I feel duped by the garage. I took car back to the garage, the mechanic had a quick look and said the bearing where shaft comes out of gaiter is leaking. he said he replaced it along with gaiter but he thinks the bearing must be faulty.
Is he talking rubbish? I now feel that the gearbox output shaft seal must have felt. The gaiter is just a dust cover and can't really stop oil from leaking. The garage just didn't investigate and diagnose the oil leak properly and wrongly changed the cv joint gaiter to fix the leak.
Please advice, any help will be highly appreciated.