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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 24 May 2014, 15:12:05
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My MV6 has been happily running on the same GM red coolant for the last 3 winters.
My question is this.
Would it be wise to change the coolant before winter number 4 arrives, or, should I leave the coolant (4.5 litres for a 50-50 mix) for the full five years, or even longer?
It looks clean enough, and is still a nice pinky red colour.
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You need to get out more.
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You need to get out more.
Should I change my coolant before or after I leave the house?
Worried of Lincolnshire. :-\ :-\ :-\ ;D ;D ;D
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You need to get out more.
Don't you have a Daewoo that needs crushing?.... ::) ::) ::) :P
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If it's clean and pinky I would have thought STEMO would be well interested to come around and render some personal assistance
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If it's clean and pinky I would have thought STEMO would be well interested to come around and render some personal assistance
Pervert. You'll get me a bad name.
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If it's clean and pinky I would have thought STEMO would be well interested to come around and render some personal assistance
Pervert. You'll get me a bad name.
Uncle STEMO's only interested in dirty pinkies! ;)
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5 years is what is stated, as it's life.
I personally like to do a complete drop every 3-4 years, especially on the 2.2 where the HG's rarely go 200k.
For the cheap cost and it's dead easy, why not. Much easier than a new HG or oil cooler :y
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5 years is what is stated, as it's life.
I personally like to do a complete drop every 3-4 years, especially on the 2.2 where the HG's rarely go 200k.
For the cheap cost and it's dead easy, why not. Much easier than a new HG or oil cooler :y
I have 2 x 5 litres of TripleX 5 year red coolant doing SFA at the moment. :y
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I wouldn't leave it 5 yrs, that's too long, whatever the spec may say ;)
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The only question remaining has to be...
Why haven't you done it yet ::)
Get yourself 2x5 litres of distilled water andget cracking :y
If you collect the old coolant, you can legally flush it down the toilet :y
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The only question remaining has to be...
Why haven't you done it yet ::)
Get yourself 2x5 litres of distilled water andget cracking :y
If you collect the old coolant, you can legally flush it down the toilet :y
or put it out for the local,moggies.
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What's this waterless coolant I've been hearing about??? Is it any good or just another tall story?
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What's this waterless coolant I've been hearing about??? Is it any good or just another tall story?
don't even think about it. Run away.
just,use normal red coolent and distilled water, or the blue stuff if its free :)
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I take it its no good then? Costs enough to buy, about £90
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Try it in the one working works car and see how long it lasts ;D
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Try it in the one working works car and see how long it lasts
No chance Al, I saw it being use in a Triumph TR6 on that Wheeler Dealer program earlier today & I've never seen it before, so I was just asking if it were any good. Ed seems to think it is ??? ??? ???
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In an engine designed for it it is probably great, but in an engine which isn't? Not so sure tbh :-\
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A few years back, I had a Carlton (I loved it, but it didn't love me) with overheating problems which flushing didn't cure, so I tried a product ridiculously named "Water Wetter", which claimed to reduce corrosion, improve heat transfer and lower coolant temperature by about 10 degrees C - it did!
I got mine from the Red line Oil Company, but I think it now retails in good motor factors - has anyone else used it?
Ron.
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Put something similar in a tr7 a few weeks back on the owners request after doing coolant system repairs.
Claimed it did what it was supposed to do and brought the running temp down.
Like someone said, theres a big difference between old and older motors.
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The only question remaining has to be...
Why haven't you done it yet ::)
Get yourself 2x5 litres of distilled water andget cracking :y
If you collect the old coolant, you can legally flush it down the toilet :y
or put it out for the local,moggies.
It is a really unpleasant way for a cat, dog or small child to go so really must make sure any spills cleaned up and what's removed is disposed of properly. I think fortunately most modern antifreeze has a bitterant to discourage ingestion.
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There's nothing wrong with a water/antifreeze mix if maintained properly! Waterless coolant is just another snake-oil product designed to liberate your money, IMHO, at the level of a standard production car, at any rate.
Water wetter is handy as a corrosion inhibitor if you don't run antifreeze, and that in itself slightly increases the cooling system capacity, but, again, all these products are snake oil on a standard production car which will have a cooling system that's well over-engineered, for our climate, at any rate.
Fundamentally, in a cooling system that's working properly, it's the thermostat that defines the running temperature, so products that claim to reduce it - well...
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As you said, Kevin - IF maintained properly; I think mine had been abused before my tenure, so that's likely why the Water Wetter worked for me, especially as the vicious(!)static fan wasn't 100%!
That particular problem was solved by the addition of a Kenlowe big and hairy fan......
Ron.
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As you said, Kevin - IF maintained properly; I think mine had been abused before my tenure, so that's likely why the Water Wetter worked for me, especially as the vicious(!)static fan wasn't 100%!
That particular problem was solved by the addition of a Kenlowe big and hairy fan......
Ron.
Big and hairy fanny. :o :o :o I remember those from the seventies and eighties. :D :D ;D ;)
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Behave yourself, Dr. Opti!
Besides, I prefer shaved - you don't get hairs in your teeth.........
:-[
Ron.
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Behave yourself, Dr. Opti!
Besides, I prefer shaved - you don't get hairs in your teeth.........
:-[
Ron.
Doesn't everyone these days. ;)