2019 Cruze State Farm supplemental claim

2019 Chevy Cruze LT 1.4. I was involved in a car accident at the end of November last year. A car turned in front of me and I T-bones them on the front driver side of my Cruze. They did about $7000 worth of damage to the front and front driver side of my car.

Picked the car up December 19 and I’ve been driving it off and on for the past six weeks to work 10 miles. Tuesday afternoon after taking my kid to an appointment I started to feel some clutch flares between gears, two and three. When I got home a lot of fluid fell from car that was dark which assumed was oil.

Took it to the mechanic the next day he is saying that there is a rupture in the seam of the transmission cooler. This would be in the impact zone of where I hit.

I’m wondering if I had a small hairline tear from the accident or when they rebuilt the front of my car and I have been slowly leaking transmission fluid for the past 6 weeks. It’s entirely possible that there had been some more clutch flares over the weeks that I just attributed to the cold weather (stupidly).

Do I have any shot at a supplemental claim based on where the cooler is and where my accident was? The repair shop is saying that this is a component that should not fail for at least 100,000+ miles and I have only 65k. State Farm and the mechanic are currently discussing it.