Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, spotting a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Honda Accord . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Honda Accord.
Gearbox leak on Honda Accord, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Honda Accord. To do 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 validated, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Honda Accord?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Honda Accord, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Be aware that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish 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 Honda Accord, otherwise 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 Honda Accord?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Honda Accord , 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 task, please browse our content on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Honda Accord gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Honda Accord. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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