In this article we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be annoying, and if not managed on time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Toyota Corolla . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Toyota Corolla.
Gearbox leak on Toyota Corolla, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is indeed coming from the gearbox of your Toyota Corolla. 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 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 the event that it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Toyota Corolla?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Toyota Corolla, we will try to describe to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Remember that in any case, 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 damaged. 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 auto technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Toyota Corolla, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete 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 Toyota Corolla?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Toyota Corolla , 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 manipulation, please go through our article on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Toyota Corolla gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Toyota Corolla. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary a lot and depending 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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