Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be annoying, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Jaguar E-Pace . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Jaguar E-Pace.
Gearbox leak on Jaguar E-Pace, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Jaguar E-Pace. To do 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 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 the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Jaguar E-Pace?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Jaguar E-Pace, we will try to explain to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. 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 take apart 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 Jaguar E-Pace, 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 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 Jaguar E-Pace?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Jaguar E-Pace , 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 action, please examine our article on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Jaguar E-Pace gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Jaguar E-Pace. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also 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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