I would top up with water if it's just for a few days. Even mixing coolants for a few days is of little concern. What is important is the service is a COMPLETE drain/rinse/replace. Green is NEVER phosphate free, unless it's a mix of blue VW/Audi/Porsche/Autobahn/Jaguar and yellow Mercedes. Same stuff from the same Basf Corp. vat just different tints. At 09:10 PM 09/11/2002, you wrote: > I have no idea what kind of coolant the PO put in >there: it's green, but in our pre-sale discussions he seemed acutely aware of >the requirement for phosphate-free coolant. >So: what would you top the tank off with? |
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