PSA: Rear axle seals

[McChris]

Thanks to this forum, I saw a few posts about people finding leaking axle seals during their last scheduled maintenance. My warranty expires in April and I am the 2nd owner so no maintenance. I decided to take the car into the dealer and pay for a full PPI type inspection just in case there was anything that could be warrantied.

Most posts I saw said it seemed to be only on 15's. Mine's a 16 and both rear axle seals were found to be leaking. Car's in the shop now getting them replaced. I typically do all maintenance myself but this was a little outside my realm.

$140 inspection saved me $1200 outside of warranty.

TL;DR: It's worth getting a full inspection done before warranty expires.

[fackamato]

Originally Posted by McChris

Thanks to this forum, I saw a few posts about people finding leaking axle seals during their last scheduled maintenance. My warranty expires in April and I am the 2nd owner so no maintenance. I decided to take the car into the dealer and pay for a full PPI type inspection just in case there was anything that could be warrantied.

Most posts I saw said it seemed to be only on 15's. Mine's a 16 and both rear axle seals were found to be leaking. Car's in the shop now getting them replaced. I typically do all maintenance myself but this was a little outside my realm.

$140 inspection saved me $1200 outside of warranty.

TL;DR: It's worth getting a full inspection done before warranty expires.

Curious, how many miles? Any track time?

[McChris]

Originally Posted by fackamato

Curious, how many miles? Any track time?

41k. previous owner did 1 or 2 track days but that's it. normal daily driver all highway. put 20k+ on it this year myself and never noticed any symptoms or leaks

[dvq]

I had mine replaced at 12K mi, completely OEM, no track time.