Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Infiniti Q50 . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Infiniti Q50.

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Gearbox leak on Infiniti Q50, origin and symptom

If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact coming from the gearbox of your Infiniti Q50. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins 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 repair a gearbox leak on Infiniti Q50?

After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Infiniti Q50, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Remember that no matter the reason, after having distinguished 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. However, 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 dismantle 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 Infiniti Q50, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • 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 Infiniti Q50?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Infiniti Q50 , 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 browse our content on this subject matter.
  • Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Infiniti Q50 gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Infiniti Q50. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary a lot and based 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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