On this page we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Xterra . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed 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 Nissan Xterra.
Gearbox leak on Nissan Xterra, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Nissan Xterra. To get this done, 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 confirmed, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Nissan Xterra?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Xterra, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Remember that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case 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 determine the leak, the technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require 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 Nissan Xterra, in any other case 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 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 Nissan Xterra?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Xterra , 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 content page on this subject.
- Use a particular 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 Xterra gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Nissan Xterra. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete change of this part. It is tricky 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 as well 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.
To find more tips on the Nissan Xterra, take a look at the Nissan Xterra category.
