Should I expect symptoms if *all* transmission oil has leaked out of a manual gearbox?
I've never checked mine and I don't plan to but it would be reasuring to know my car will make some kind of noise if it ever runs terminally low.
If it makes a noise it will probably be a 'death rattle'. If the general maintance of your car is along those lines you've expensive times ahead!
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So in other words it has to be checked because the first noise will be fatal-ish rather than a harmless whiney noise. [1]
Ok. Might as well change it since checking seems to be almost more effort than changing. (There's *some* oil in there 'cos I loosened the drain plug just enough to see a trickle of oil. Clearly I dunno if that's 100ml or 2 litres.)
Expensive times? I've driven 3 bangers over 12 years and apart from a twice yearly oil and filter change they've all cost me bugger all beyond wear and tear of consumables.
Just out of interest from a purely preventative point of view is there much more you can do than check/change all the fluids regularly? [1] Which is all I wanted to know.
I beleive that the 416 actually specifies a complete transmission oil change every 20 or 30k unlike most cars which seem to be fill and forget these days.
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