2018 Tahoe Rear Pinion Leak

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InlandEmpireTahoe

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I parked my Tahoe in the garage last night after coming back from a day trip to Big Bear, only to find a golf ball sized puddle on the garage floor near the rear end this morning. I crawled underneath and found that it appears to be leaking from the rear pinion seal. The only 2 factors that I could see remotely having an impact would be 1. I engaged 4wd for a short time yesterday but didn’t go off roading in the snow and 2. The ambient temperature was about 30 degrees. Neither of those two things should have an impact but they are the only 2 things that differed from normal driving over the last 12k miles.

Anyone else have this problem??


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Tell your dealer hi when you visit. Warranty is a good thing.
 

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You have full warranty take it in ASAP. Have not heard of that complaint on this forum.
 
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I’m definitely taking it in, already made an appointment for next week. And I’m thankful that it’s still under warranty, hopefully it’s a one time occurrence, wasn’t sure if it was something that I did to cause it


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what did you end up having done for your leak around the pinion seal and has the fix held up? I just had this happen to me this week with 56K miles on my 2018 Tahoe.
 

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what did you end up having done for your leak around the pinion seal and has the fix held up? I just had this happen to me this week with 56K miles on my 2018 Tahoe.

Unfortunately Jacob has not been here since last November. Hopefully he will eventually make a return visit.
 

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