Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 01:25:44 -0500
Reply-To: karl <thewestyman@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From: karl <thewestyman@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: Re: DM: Re: VW coolant
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Here's a 'scientific' test for you to try: Take 3 new waterboxers, one with
green ethylene, one with green propylene, and one with the $$$ 'special'
dealer coolant. Drive each 100K miles, under identical conditions. At this
point you will discover that the waterboxer head gasket problem is caused
not by the type of coolant, but by a very poor and inferior design. They all
will leak at approximately the same time. (Subarus don't leak, no matter the
coolant type, and they are aluminum block / aluminum head design, albeit
with a proper head gasket) It's time to call a spade a spade, the waterboxer
is surely no great engineering feat in the cooling department. And their
metals are not superior in any way, sorry! It's about time this myth is put
to rest that the coolant is the cause of the head gasket woes in the
waterboxer engine.
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>The fact remains that the aluminum and iron manufactured in Germany is no
more generic than their specifications. I certainly was not talking about
all the cars on the road. Mostly I was refering to the most sensitive
automotive cooling system I am aware of, the Wasserboxer. The fact is that
to my knowledge none of the German manufactures have yet tested and
approved other than that which has been stated for ANY OF THEIR MOTORS. It
don't include the polypropalene, which by the way when in used condition is
filthy stuff. I sure wouldn't pour it on my veggies. If people would handle
the ethelene glycol waste responsibly, it would be a lot greener than
dumping poly 'cause it's base component is biodegradable. The alchemicals
from years of heat cycling in contact with various metals, plastics,
rubber, oil, sealants, ect. are not very green at all. Used E-glycol can be
burned in a small furnace without special handling, according to the EPA,
the most repressive of Govt. agencies in the world, barring a few pissant
tyrants.
You may experiment all you wish. I will follow instructions and enhance
methode with proven techniques. If you wish to prove your practice is
superior or equal to another, you must provide your data, obtained via
scientific method. You want mine??? I refer you to the manufacturers.
Doktor Tim
Maintenance Repair and Restoration of European Vehicles
San Juan Island, WA
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