Date:         Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:34:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: phosphates in Prestone
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Volks,

I use Prestone phosphate-free antifree (the orange stuff in the silver
bottle) and have been quite happy with it; no problems yet >knock on
wood< and plan to continue to do so, because of the following
considerations:

1. I use city water, which is soft, but may have to come across a
situation where I might have to top off with water that is of unknown
origin and potentially questionable chemical makeup, i.e. hard water I
didn't know was hard, etc.

2. If I were to change my coolant for the first time, and decide to go
on the cheap and get the regular day-glo green Prestone with the
assumption that I would not mix that with the phosphate-free stuff
(everyone says you can't mix the stuff) then I would try to drain the
van and swear and curse when I find out that NOT ALL THE STUFF IS
GOING TO COME OUT and I'll have to get the expensive stuff anyway! ;(

3. The expensive stuff is guaranteed for a longer period. Perhaps
you're paying for the guarantee, but I don't think that Prestone is
making a killing off of the orange stuff, because of the position it
takes on its web page saying that you might as well get the green
stuff (no economic determinism here; otherwise the web page would
scare you into buying the orange stuff). You might actually get what
you pay for. If someone on this list has filled the system, FROM
EMPTY, with green Prestone and had a better time than I with cooling
system trouble, I will gladly stand corrected.

In short, I do "feel better" using the phosphate-free coolant due to
the set of circumstances that I am in.

My $0.02,
Sam
P.S. Thanks, Karl, for the posting.
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