Balderdash. Neither Bently nor any VW dealor or independent service shop in the 15 years that I owned my 85 GL ever mentioned a requirement for deionized water. Using distilled is nice since it's clean and not hard, and is often produced by deionization, but it is NOT required. William, Don't believe everything you read on this list. If someone with the credentials of Steve Not A Jeep Denis or Boston Bob want to contradict me I'll take it. But my BS detector really went off on this one. Ed Rico Sapolich wrote: >In a message dated 2/17/02 12:49:43 PM, developtrust@HOME.COM writes: > ><< What is the rationale for distilled water. >> > >The cooling system requires deionized water. Although I would think that >distilled water is also deionized, I slept through too many analytical >chemistry classes to have any meaningful knowledge of the matter. I imagine >that deionized H2O allows the additive components of the antifreeze to >function as was intended by the chemists' formulation. > >Also, deionized H2O is offered by antifreeze manufacturers at inflated prices. > >Rich > |
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