Relebogile Mabotja's Car Feature
Sep 1, 2026 · 18 min · 12 segments
702 Afternoons with Relebogile Mabotja is broadcast live on Johannesburg based talk radio station 702 every weekday afternoon. Relebogile brings a lighter touch to some of the issues of the day as…
Nicol LouwGuest
Relebogile MabotjaHostI took it to one mechanic and he quoted 20K minimum when he used this diagnostic machine.
I went to two others who put it into a diagnostic machine which said it's only a lubrication issue versus what he said.
kind of system.
So what I would recommend is really take it to a, not just a normal mechanic doing servicing and so on, take it to a transmission expert place.
And there's a chain in South Africa that only looks at transmissions, but there should be, I don't know where you live or reside, but there should be a specialist on transmissions only.
Because it's a very specialized system, and the lubricant one sounds to me too easy.
But with those transmissions, there's a lot of solenoids, there's a lot of electromechanical components in that dual-clutch system.
But if you can find the specialist that can open them up and maybe just change the faulty component, it will be much less.
I took it to one mechanic and he quoted 20K minimum when he used this diagnostic machine.
I went to two others who put it into a diagnostic machine which said it's only a lubrication issue versus what he said.
kind of system.
So what I would recommend is really take it to a, not just a normal mechanic doing servicing and so on, take it to a transmission expert place.
And there's a chain in South Africa that only looks at transmissions, but there should be, I don't know where you live or reside, but there should be a specialist on transmissions only.
Because it's a very specialized system, and the lubricant one sounds to me too easy.
But with those transmissions, there's a lot of solenoids, there's a lot of electromechanical components in that dual-clutch system.
But if you can find the specialist that can open them up and maybe just change the faulty component, it will be much less.
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