On this page we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Obviously, 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 5 . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 5.
Gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 5, origin and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Bmw Serie 5. 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 confirmed, here are the possible sources 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 the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Bmw Serie 5?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Bmw Serie 5, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind 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 might 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 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 replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Bmw Serie 5, in any other case you’ll have to replace 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 5?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Bmw Serie 5 , however here are the three most effective:
- Frequent 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 go through our content on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Bmw Serie 5 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Bmw Serie 5. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will as well have a different price, however, 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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