Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In reality, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your GMC Terrain . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a GMC Terrain.
Gearbox leak on GMC Terrain, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in fact caused by the gearbox of your GMC Terrain. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once validated, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just 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 GMC Terrain?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your GMC Terrain, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your GMC Terrain, otherwise 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 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 GMC Terrain?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your GMC Terrain , 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 action, please go through our content on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a GMC Terrain gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a GMC Terrain. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage area 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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