In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Skoda Enyaq . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Skoda Enyaq.

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Gearbox leak on Skoda Enyaq, source and symptom

If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in fact based on the gearbox of your Skoda Enyaq. 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 sources 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 fix a gearbox leak on Skoda Enyaq?

After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Skoda Enyaq, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that no matter the reason, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. 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 technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require 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 Skoda Enyaq, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • At last, 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 Skoda Enyaq?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Skoda Enyaq , 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 matter.
  • Use a particular additive for routine service 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 Skoda Enyaq gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Skoda Enyaq. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is difficult 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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