Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Obviously, distinguishing a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Opel Crossland . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Opel Crossland.
Gearbox leak on Opel Crossland, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Opel Crossland. 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 affirmed, 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 damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Opel Crossland?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Opel Crossland, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. 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 dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Opel Crossland, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete 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 Opel Crossland?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Opel Crossland , 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 action, please read our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Opel Crossland gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Opel Crossland. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary quite 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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