Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mercedes Benz GLE Class . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in actual fact 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 Mercedes Benz GLE Class.
Gearbox leak on Mercedes Benz GLE Class, source and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact based on the gearbox of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class. To do this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present 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 Mercedes Benz GLE Class?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mercedes Benz GLE Class, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish 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 change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mercedes Benz GLE Class, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, 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 Mercedes Benz GLE Class?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mercedes Benz GLE Class , 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 read our content on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Mercedes Benz GLE Class gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Mercedes Benz GLE Class. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also 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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