Antifreeze

RobnKathryn · Post by **RobnKathryn** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:30 am

All the water ways in the 80,000 mile engine I've just fitted are amazingly clean compared to the state of the ones in the 90,000 mile engine I took out. The coolant in the new engine was green..........I've only seen blue stuff on sale............anyone know what the green stuff might be because I'd like to use it if I can find it!

Thanks........Rob

papa joe · Post by **papa joe** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:25 am

Hi Rob

Mazda "genuine super coolant" is green, comes in ready mixed 5 lt plastic container from your local dealer for £10.00 ish + vat

Cheers papa joe

haydn callow · Post by **haydn callow** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:46 am

Isn't Glycol based antifreeze green and the other sort blue ??

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:55 am

No

The blue stuff is glycol based as well. In fact AFAIK they all are. I think the colour is just an additive so that you don't drink it (as if!). I seem to remember buying some Unipart stuff once and that was green. Supposed to change colour if the dilution factor went too low.

smartmonkey · Post by **smartmonkey** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:55 pm

The common colours I am aware of are:
Pink (mostly german)
Blue (used to be Ford but not many still use it new)
Green - the most common.

You can mix blue and green. (Green turns blue antifreeze green if topping up.) The colour designates it as a particular type of coolant. You can buy the green stuff from any car accessory shop.

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:10 pm

christ mines pink

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:10 pm

All the stuff I've bought from Factors in the past few years has been blue

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:12 pm

and Toyota's "For Life" coolant is red

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:16 pm

phew

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:48 pm

Bumf here

http://www.baldwinfilter.com/engineer/pdf/05-2.pdf