Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your PORSCHE BOXSTER . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a PORSCHE BOXSTER.
Gearbox leak on PORSCHE BOXSTER, source and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in fact originating from the gearbox of your PORSCHE BOXSTER. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins 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 PORSCHE BOXSTER?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your PORSCHE BOXSTER, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact source 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 distinguish the leak, the auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate 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 PORSCHE BOXSTER, 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 only 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 PORSCHE BOXSTER?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your PORSCHE BOXSTER , however 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 examine our article on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a PORSCHE BOXSTER gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a PORSCHE BOXSTER. As you have understood, gearbox problems 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 quite a lot and based on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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