anti-freeze

Hi all,

its getting a bit nippy here and the first frosts are appearing, so its time to sort out the coolant in the series 3.

What is the recommended anti-freeze for these?

Thanks in advance.

Umm. Anything would do I would have thought!

For antifreeze I would recommend using antifreeze.

TheVengefulElephant said:

For antifreeze I would recommend using antifreeze.

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What the hell is this bloke about? Yet again someone is looking for some info and up pops the tosser with yet another useless reply.

If you have nothing helpful to say, then do not bother posting.

Tosser.

hahaha

Use the old Green stuff, 3 year max, not the new fluorescent Orange 5 year stuff, it will kill the hoses.

Thanks Spyderman,

I was asking because i heard someone mention the other day that certain antifreezes can damage the engine or some-such, and that some are better than others.

A mechanically minded friend of mine told me last night that it shoud be ethylene glycol based - also gave me a few percentage mix-rates - so i think that should be just enough info to occupy and hour on Saturday morning!!

I think they all use Ethylene Glycol as the Non-freezing part, it's the other additives that do the damage. The old type rubber hoses are eaten by the new orange stuff. I think the change over time for engines to the new Orange stuff is about Td5 time, anything before that should use the Green stuff.

lets not furget the red stuff and the blue stuff

The Mad Hat Man said:

lets not furget the red stuff and the blue stuff

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Forgot about those. Do you know the specs on them? I just use the Green stuff because I know it's safe.