Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. Indeed, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Toyota Highlander . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy 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 Highlander.
Gearbox leak on Toyota Highlander, source and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Toyota Highlander. 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 confirmed, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to fix a gearbox leak on Toyota Highlander?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Toyota Highlander, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the auto technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate 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 Highlander, otherwise 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 only 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 Toyota Highlander?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Toyota Highlander , 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 read our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Toyota Highlander gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Toyota Highlander. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary 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.
If you wish more tutorials on the Toyota Highlander, go to our Toyota Highlander category.
