Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:49:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Tonya Pope <tonya@TEAMM.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Tonya Pope <tonya@TEAMM.COM>
Organization: Team MainStreet, Inc.
Subject:      Re: changing coolant
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Steve Manning wrote:
>
> MY mechanic cahrged me 50 bucks for everything. He had to bleed the heck
> out of it, but he would do it again. I said this before, you do not need
> to use vw coolant specifically. A coolant safe for aluminum engines (yes
> it is still green) is good enough. Just change it once a year.

"coolant safe for aluminum engines" might be just a bit too broad.
Although if you change it once a year, it probably doesn't matter.  I
just picked up some antifreeze yesterday and you really need to look at
ingredients.  Some that say "safe for aluminum engines" contain
phosphates, some do not.  It's the ingredients that are important (or
lack of specific ones, such as phosphates).

Tonya
87 Vanagon GL Wolfs
74 S. Beetle