Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In reality, spotting a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Audi Q7 . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s obviously 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 Audi Q7.
Gearbox leak on Audi Q7, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously coming from the gearbox of your Audi Q7. To achieve this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once validated, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only 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 Audi Q7?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Audi Q7, we will try to show you to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify 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 identify the leak, the auto technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Audi Q7, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Audi Q7?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Audi Q7 , however 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 task, please examine our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Audi Q7 gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Audi Q7. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the component will also have a different price, however, we estimate that the repair, labour included will cost you between 800 and 2000 euros , knowing that the component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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