In this article we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In reality, spotting a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Lexus RX . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Lexus RX.
Gearbox leak on Lexus RX, origin and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Lexus RX. 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 verified, here are the possible origins 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 that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Lexus RX?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Lexus RX, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Be aware that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require 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 Lexus RX, in any other case you’ll have to change 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 Lexus RX?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Lexus RX , nevertheless 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 manipulation, please go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Lexus RX gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Lexus RX. As you have understood, gearbox problems 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 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.
If you wish more guides on the Lexus RX, go to our Lexus RX category.
