Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Opel Astra . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm 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 indication of the price of the gearbox of a Opel Astra.
Gearbox leak on Opel Astra, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Opel Astra. 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 originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once established, 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 broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Opel Astra?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Opel Astra, we will try to show you to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that no matter the reason, after having founded 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 dismantle 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 Opel Astra, 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 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 Opel Astra?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Opel Astra , nevertheless 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 examine 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 discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Opel Astra gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Opel Astra. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary 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.
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