On this page we will try to help you solve a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Infiniti QX50 . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Infiniti QX50.
Gearbox leak on Infiniti QX50, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Infiniti QX50. 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 verified, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present 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 Infiniti QX50?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Infiniti QX50, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might 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 distinguish the leak, the auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Infiniti QX50, 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 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 Infiniti QX50?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Infiniti QX50 , however 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 examine our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Infiniti QX50 gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Infiniti QX50. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary 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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