In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be irritating, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. Indeed, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Volkswagen Tiguan . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed 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 Volkswagen Tiguan.
Gearbox leak on Volkswagen Tiguan, source and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed based on the gearbox of your Volkswagen Tiguan. To get this done, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once validated, 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 case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Volkswagen Tiguan?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Volkswagen Tiguan, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. However, 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 take apart your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Volkswagen Tiguan, otherwise you’ll have to replace the whole 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 Volkswagen Tiguan?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Volkswagen Tiguan , however here are the three most effective:
- Frequent 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 specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Volkswagen Tiguan gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Volkswagen Tiguan. As you have realized, gearbox problems often lead to a whole 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 component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
If you want more guides on the Volkswagen Tiguan, go to our Volkswagen Tiguan category.
