Where is the gearbox fill plug located on Audi coupe 2.3e

[IHK 11]

Hi i want to change the gearbox oil on my Audi coupe but dont know where the filler plug is. Ive found the drain plug to drain it. Does anyone know where the filler plug is located and how do you know where the level is? Any help would be reslly appreciated please. The cars a 2.3e b3 with a 5 cylinder ng engine. Thanks.

[Stevey Y]

18 minutes ago, IHK 11 said:

Hi i want to change the gearbox oil on my Audi coupe but dont know where the filler plug is. Ive found the drain plug to drain it. Does anyone know where the filler plug is located and how do you know where the level is? Any help would be reslly appreciated please. The cars a 2.3e b3 with a 5 cylinder ng engine. Thanks.

Hi the filler plug will be on the side somewhere near the drive shaft as for the level if you find the oil capacity thats it, if not get it up in the air and level and just fill until it starts running out of the filler hole.

Steve..

[Turlough]

I have a Cabriolet with a 2.8 V6 engine, unlike yours it doesn’t have a drain plug on the gearbox sump instead the oil is pumped out through the gearbox dip stick tube and filled through through the same tube, I don’t know if your 2.3 has a dip stick tube but if it has you have you could fill it through this.

I would say Stevey Y has the answer though!

[IHK 11]

Hi thanks for replying. The only thing i could find is a gearbox drain plug.  Thanks.

[Magnet]

Hello Ian,

Just to avoid any misunderstanding, are we talking manual gearbox or automatic?

Kind regards,

Gareth. 

[IHK 11]

Its a manual 5 speed gearbox.

[IHK 11]

13 hours ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi the filler plug will be on the side somewhere near the drive shaft as for the level if you find the oil capacity thats it, if not get it up in the air and level and just fill until it starts running out of the filler hole.

Steve..

Thats great thanks.

[Magnet]

Thanks Ian, thought so, but worth checking. I’m glad you are getting your priorities in order, and locating the filler plug first - then equally important, making sure you can remove it and have enough access to refill from that point, before removing the drain plug. Common sense does not always apply with such things! 
Good luck and kind regards,

Gareth. 

[IHK 11]

Thanks for all your help. Really appreciated.