Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be annoying, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Surely, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Volkswagen Touareg . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in fact 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 Touareg.
Gearbox leak on Volkswagen Touareg, source and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in fact based on the gearbox of your Volkswagen Touareg. To do this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on 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 broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Volkswagen Touareg?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Volkswagen Touareg, we will try to describe to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Volkswagen Touareg, 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 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 Volkswagen Touareg?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Volkswagen Touareg , 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 task, please go through our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service 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 Volkswagen Touareg gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Volkswagen Touareg. As you have understood, 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, nevertheless, 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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