On this page we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Bmw Serie 3 E93 . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 3 E93.
Gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 3 E93, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth caused by the gearbox of your Bmw Serie 3 E93. To get this done, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, 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 case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 3 E93?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Bmw Serie 3 E93, we will try to show you to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to determine the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto mechanic 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 mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Bmw Serie 3 E93, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 3 E93?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Bmw Serie 3 E93 , 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 content on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Bmw Serie 3 E93 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 3 E93. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the component will as well have a different price, nevertheless, 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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