On this page we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In actual fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Note . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair 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 Nissan Note.
Gearbox leak on Nissan Note, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Nissan Note. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped 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 Nissan Note?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Note, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may 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 auto 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 auto technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Nissan Note, otherwise you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 Note?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Note , however 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 action, please examine our article on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Nissan Note gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Nissan Note. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
To discover more tips on the Nissan Note, take a look at the Nissan Note category.
