In this article we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Acura TLX . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Acura TLX.
Gearbox leak on Acura TLX, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Acura TLX. To accomplish this, 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 roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Acura TLX?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Acura TLX, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Acura TLX, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just powerful 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 Acura TLX?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Acura TLX , 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 go through our article 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 Acura TLX gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Acura TLX. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is difficult 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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