Today we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. In reality, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Subaru Forester . 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, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Subaru Forester.
Gearbox leak on Subaru Forester, source and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is in fact coming from the gearbox of your Subaru Forester. To do 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 established, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only 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 Subaru Forester?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Subaru Forester, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to repair this oil leak. Remember that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Subaru Forester, 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 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 Subaru Forester?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Subaru Forester , 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 action, please go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Subaru Forester gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Subaru Forester. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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