On this page we will try to help you fix a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. Obviously, spotting a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Maxima . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Nissan Maxima.
Gearbox leak on Nissan Maxima, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact coming from the gearbox of your Nissan Maxima. To accomplish 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 affirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Nissan Maxima?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Maxima, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Remember that in any case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the technician will have to take apart 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 Nissan Maxima, 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 Nissan Maxima?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Maxima , 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 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 Nissan Maxima gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Nissan Maxima. 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 depending on the mechanic the labour can vary 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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