In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Bmw Serie 2 . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 2.
Gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 2, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is obviously originating from the gearbox of your Bmw Serie 2. To do this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 2?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Bmw Serie 2, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require 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 Bmw Serie 2, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just effective 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 Bmw Serie 2?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Bmw Serie 2 , 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 action, please go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Bmw Serie 2 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 2. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and based 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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