and again as we have talked before...how often are you playing with your coolant that this actually is a thing to be concerned about?My coolant gets touched every 2 for green, every 5 years for other colours. Just get premixed unless you are doing a flush every....lots of years.If you are playing with coolant more than that...there is something wrong with your car?
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on October 21, 2020, 03:41:16 pmand again as we have talked before...how often are you playing with your coolant that this actually is a thing to be concerned about?My coolant gets touched every 2 for green, every 5 years for other colours. Just get premixed unless you are doing a flush every....lots of years.If you are playing with coolant more than that...there is something wrong with your car? I usually do every 3 years, on my 8 car fleet that's 2.5 coolant changes per year....excluding projects/flip cars. If I save two $20 jugs per change by using the concentrate and mixing myself that's $100/yr....I'll take that. It's also just how I am, I apply that sort of logic to everything....
Quote from: EV Dan on October 20, 2020, 09:30:32 pmWhatever man, the salt lamp was tongue in cheek obviously. Pat Goss says either type of water is fine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJ657cQh2QI've used well water garden hose and the green stuff for decades on my former Detroit metal. But those machines were simple. Heater cores with AC where still wickedly difficult to replace but doable, but now Ford for example on many units combines the heater core, evaporator and blower fans in one pre assembled unit. That's the point of me changing the fluid on such a low mileage vehicle that is to attempt to try and avoid any acidic issues and what not in the cooling system.Same logic ppl use when changing motor oil before season storage. Supposedly to avoid excess acids. Does it matter Does it matter materially? Who knows, but each to his own.As for the de ionized water why not? I'm not spending $38 a gallon on coolant concentrate to cheap out on the water. It's $4.00 per gallon . I didn't think the cost of the stuff was such an issue with ppl.
Whatever man, the salt lamp was tongue in cheek obviously. Pat Goss says either type of water is fine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJ657cQh2Q
I change my cars more often than my coolant.
Why not just get the pre-mixed coolant? Like this? https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/prestone-all-vehicles-antifreeze-coolant-3-78-l-0293023p.htmlSimple. To evacuate all the old coolant out of the block and heater core it takes a lot of water and many drain and fill cycles to rid the system of the original coolant. The goal is to essentially have the system all water. Please no one bring up what kind of water. [emoji14] So now you have system that is all water and then you do your last drain. Generally one is going to get 50% of the "water" out of the system. At which point you add the concentrated coolant to the system and generally achieve the 50/50 mix. That can't be done with premix coolant.What is a drain and fill cycle: 4 times. That would require a crazy amount of premix.
Doesn't Amsoil make coolant? I assume it's lifetime, just like their oil change interval recommendations...
My boy has been driving it to school since the Fiero only has all seasons. A Ford Probe owner apparently commented on how cool it is.
We have had snow melt already! Had maybe 8 inches.
