In this article we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In reality, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your PORSCHE PANAMERA . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a PORSCHE PANAMERA.
Gearbox leak on PORSCHE PANAMERA, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your PORSCHE PANAMERA. To achieve this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on PORSCHE PANAMERA?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your PORSCHE PANAMERA, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Realize that no matter the reason, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, 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 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 PORSCHE PANAMERA, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 PANAMERA?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your PORSCHE PANAMERA , nevertheless here are the three most effective:
- Frequent 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 article on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service 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 PORSCHE PANAMERA gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a PORSCHE PANAMERA. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the component will also have a different price, nevertheless, 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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