What's the recommended coolant?

[tuscan't]

Sorry to be a spaz , but I'm away for the weekend without my handbook and want to top up my coolant as it looks a little low.

What type does it recommend in the manual and if I can't find this does it matter if I get a different brand?

Thanks for you help.

[blackmonday]

I have a 3995cc S6 and the owner's manual states 'Mobil universal Antifreeze' 12 litres. Mixture should be 50% coolant and 50% water.

Hope that helps!

[philshort]

blackmonday

I'm sure you are proud of your car, but frankly I'm sick of seeing it. Ted took sigs of the site because they are a pain in the arse. Take the hint.

Put your piccies in your profile, stop wasting everyones bandwidth (especially Teds).

[blackmonday]

ummm.... i'll post what i want to as there is this thing called freedom of speech...

[philshort]

So next time you post just talk about your car while you're doing so. We'll all be listening! Doh!

>> Edited by philshort on Friday 24th May 16:54

[Botthom]

Agreed.
Remove your car or else a VW camper van will haunt your dreams

[philshort]

See. there's a thing called Democracy as well!

... not that this is one! Ted got rid of sigs 'cos he doesn't like them. His site, his decision. I didn't agree, I thought text sigs were harmless enough, but they went anyway - see here www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=5574&f=24&h=0&hw=sigs.

[JonRB]

quote:i'll post what i want to as there is this thing called freedom of speech

If you've been a member of PistonHeads for 15 months like your profile says, then you should know by now that PistonHeads is a benign dictatorship. You only get freedom of speech up to a point, and that point is when Ted says "enough!". The general feeling amongst PistonHeaders is that signatures are a pain in the neck and Ted has chosen to endorse that view.

If you don't like it then you're more than welcome to instead frequent other newsgroups, mailing lists and web sites where signatures, pictorial signoffs and 10 lines of crap at the end of evey post are the norm. But please, don't inflict that on us here and then say "if you don't like it then tough", because I think you'll find that an awful lot of people will return the sentiment to you.

Cheers
Jon

[richb]

So back to the thread - I just put any decent anti-freeze plus water into my header bottle in roughly 50/50 quantities i.e. one wek I put in water the next time I top up I try to remeber to use anti-freeze. It's Shell stuff at the moment, never really worried about it, perhaps I should?. Rich...

[philshort]

Sorry Rich!

Depends on where you leave the car, and the weather I guess. Personnally I don't use AntiFreeze at all, but I don't leave my car out in the cold either.

Any anti-corrosion properties would probably be effective down to much lower percentages than 50%, so guess-timating a 50/50 mix should be safe.

I think you have to be careful with an alloy engine about the type of antifreeze, but it should say on the bottle if its suitable for an alloy engine.

For info I use Water Wetter and water as coolant, and it's effectiveness is reduced by glycol based antifreeze, so I don't put any in.

[blackmonday]

*sigh*

[tuscan't]

Thanks for the input - coolness has returned.

My next task is to work out how to embed an 8mb streaming video of me polishing my wheel-nuts into my signature

[pedestrian]

Hey Phil,

Where d'you get your WaterWetter from, and how mush pls?