In this article we will try to help you solve a issue that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In reality, distinguishing a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Porsche Macan . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 Porsche Macan.
Gearbox leak on Porsche Macan, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Porsche Macan. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins 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 the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Porsche Macan?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Porsche Macan, we will try to describe to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Take note that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Porsche Macan, 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 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 Porsche Macan?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Porsche Macan , 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 content 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 discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Porsche Macan gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Porsche Macan. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the component will also 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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