Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be annoying, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Subaru Impreza . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Subaru Impreza.
Gearbox leak on Subaru Impreza, source and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in actual fact coming from the gearbox of your Subaru Impreza. To accomplish 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 validated, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present 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 Subaru Impreza?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Subaru Impreza, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source 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 identify the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Subaru Impreza, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
- Finally, 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 Subaru Impreza?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Subaru Impreza , 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 page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Subaru Impreza gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Subaru Impreza. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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