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Finally, last week, the dealer installed a new gearbox on my Leaf. I didn't get to see the inside of the old reduction gearbox, so we'll never know what the production error was that make it leak. I think it must have been a faulty oil seal. Now that the whole reduction gearbox has been...

If that's true, I would have expected other Leafs having the same problem. There are enough people on this forum that at least one of them should have had leaking oil before? My guess (and hope) is that it's just a rare factory assembly error.

When I wrote my first post in this thread, I never expected to hijack it with so many posts about leaking oil. But the story continues :( Two weeks ago the Nissan dealer filled the reduction gearbox with "genuine Nissan oil" and replaced the brush assembly that grounds the moving parts in the...

To continue the tale of the leaking leaf... I went back to the dealer this Monday. They kept the car for two days. The workshop manager was a bit less helpful then his colleague last time. He talked more about the end of my 3-year warranty (this week) and how doing your own maintenance might...

So, I went back to the dealer this morning. There was oil leakage again and when opening the side plug, oil came out, even though they opened it last time too. So the leakage wasn't caused by over-filling, that's for sure. The leakage seems to come from the little tube, but also the dealer...

It took a while before I had time to visit the Nissan dealer... this week I finally went there. The workshop manager at the Nissan dealer agreed that having almost no oil on the first change was a strange situation. There was plenty of oil leaking from the reduction gearbox again, but it was...

I think most likely is there are parts missing (and that also caused the low oil level). I'm quite sure the dealer never even got the bottom plate off although they should have done that during the 1-year maintenance check they said they did when they sold it. So I'll go back to the dealer, see...

In my car it's loose on one side. It seems the breather and a piece of tube is missing?

I filled it until it came out again from the filler hole. That was approx. 1.4 liters. Where is this breather tube connected? It's hard to see in this exploded view (and also in the engine compartment without taking the engine out).

It took a bit longer (2.500km) but now I changed the oil again. There was more dirt on the magnets then you would expect after 2.500km, so my assumption that the dirt was not transported because of lack of oil was probably correct. The oil that came out still looked still a bit red, but it was...

Here's yet another reason why you should change the reduction gear oil... After reading this post about why (not) to change your reduction gear oil, I decided that safe is better then sorry and got some replacement oil. However, when I opened the drain plug, nothing happened. After a while a...