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Old Jul 10, 2014 | 06:21 PM
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Default Re: Coolant & Brake Fluid ?????

Originally Posted by Chris L.
So after the car cooled down, I opened the overflow reservoir. BLUE.....the G05 is GOLD ??????? The stuff in the reservoir tested 5 or 6 degrees warmer for a freezing point than the gallon of 50/50 G05 they returned to me. OK, I'm a dufus.......when this procedure is performed.....do they fill the radiator/engine from the reservoir or is there some other point like the old radiator caps cars used to have? If they filled through some other spot & failed to drain the overflow reservoir.....that would explain the blue still in the reservoir & them not using the full 11.8 quarts the manual calls for...?

In any case, I syphoned the 5 pints of blue out of the reservoir & replaced with an equal volume of the G05 50/50.

I'll wait a couple of weeks and let the expansion/contraction cycles mix the stuff in the reservoir with the stuff in the radiator/engine. If any substantial blue shows up.......I'll have to question everything they did?
I drained and flushed my car and it had the OEM blue coolant in it. The coolant that remained was pretty diluted. I added the G05 and I was surprised that the combination of fluids was blue. I actually calculated what the amount of the original fluid remained. That blue is pretty strong and overpowers the clearish golden coolant. Although the new blue is quite clear when compared to the solid blue of the OEM fluid.
No problem.
 
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