Bongo Fury

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

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

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

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.

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.

christ mines pink

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

and Toyota's "For Life" coolant is red

phew

Bumf here

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