Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In fact, spotting a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Opel Insignia . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Opel Insignia.
Gearbox leak on Opel Insignia, origin and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in truth caused by the gearbox of your Opel Insignia. To achieve this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly 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 Insignia?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Opel Insignia, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine 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 change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Opel Insignia, in any other case you’ll have to replace the whole 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 Insignia?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Opel Insignia , 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 manipulation, please go through our content on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Opel Insignia gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Opel Insignia. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard 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 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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