Question about using pure coolant
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If it were me, I would test the coolant and see where you stand mixture wise. IF,,,,, the mixture is wrong, have someone that knows what they are doing properly drain, flush and fill the system with the proper mixture of WATER and ANTIFREEZE!
SIMPLE AS THAT!
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Thanks for comments everyone. So I ended up checking the coolant and it looks like it's around 75/25 (coolant/water), which makes sense since only half of the coolant was drained and replaced with 1.5gallon of 100% coolant, the other 1.5 gallon of old coolant would have been 50/50.
I was planning on siphoning 3 or 4 quarts of coolant and adding 3-4 quarts of water, for now, until I see another mechanic to do a proper flush/replace of the coolant.
I was planning on siphoning 3 or 4 quarts of coolant and adding 3-4 quarts of water, for now, until I see another mechanic to do a proper flush/replace of the coolant.
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If it were my car and that is what the "mechanic" did there are 2 things I would do:
1) Make certain I did NOT ever go back to him and also insure his lack of knowledge/skills was well know to everyone I met.
2) Take the car to someone that will properly flush the system clean of the old coolant and then refill to a 50/50 mix. ASK before you have them touch the car.
1) Make certain I did NOT ever go back to him and also insure his lack of knowledge/skills was well know to everyone I met.
2) Take the car to someone that will properly flush the system clean of the old coolant and then refill to a 50/50 mix. ASK before you have them touch the car.
Sounds like that mechanic would be one to avoid.
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i just read today about hot distilled water dripping on stainless and corroding it.
as there are no minerals in metals, what does pure water do exactly?
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interesting. can you elaborate on that? whats the difference between distilled and pure distilled? how about the stuff comming out of an air conditioner?
i just read today about hot distilled water dripping on stainless and corroding it.
as there are no minerals in metals, what does pure water do exactly?
i just read today about hot distilled water dripping on stainless and corroding it.
as there are no minerals in metals, what does pure water do exactly?
Have you ever had to maintain a plaster pool? Every so often you have to check the level of total dissolved solids because if it's allowed to drop too low the water will start to dissolve the plaster. So you dump in calcium chloride to bring the TDS level back up. ... same sort of thing
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interesting. can you elaborate on that? whats the difference between distilled and pure distilled? how about the stuff comming out of an air conditioner?
i just read today about hot distilled water dripping on stainless and corroding it.
as there are no minerals in metals, what does pure water do exactly?
i just read today about hot distilled water dripping on stainless and corroding it.
as there are no minerals in metals, what does pure water do exactly?
