Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In fact, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Chevrolet Trax . 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, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Chevrolet Trax.
Gearbox leak on Chevrolet Trax, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed originating from the gearbox of your Chevrolet Trax. 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 affirmed, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Chevrolet Trax?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Chevrolet Trax, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Chevrolet Trax, in any other case 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 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 Chevrolet Trax?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet Trax , 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 page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Chevrolet Trax gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Chevrolet Trax. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard 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 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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