Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:03:38 -0400
Reply-To:     Brian Honan <cartruckbus@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Brian Honan <cartruckbus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Coolant question again ...
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  The colors do not mix ! so you will want to make sure you have every drop
of green out of the system before you put orange in. It is almost like
mixing complementary colors, It will make a gelled up dark grey.

    I went orange once, and now I am back to green.

   I would suggest just getting good, compatible long life fluid.

  It is to bad the Environmental friendly stuff is not on the market much
anymore. What do we do with all this old fluid ?

  How do you flush a system without a bunch going into our water system.

  Take care "stay cool"

Brian in Pittsburgh



On 7/19/06, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> So before getting out the long road trip alongsome mundane maintenance
> thought i'd flush the cooling system
>
> So I found that Valvoline Zerex G-05 (Orange) meets the vw vanagon G11
> spec
> its phospfate free at $14/gal as opposed  32+ for the blue
>
> does the color coding have any real meaning just as long as the the
> coolant
> meets vw G11 ?
>