Cheap coolant experience and Audi stuff for sale

[cobram at juno.com]

"Tim Flint" <tfalfa at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> I used "cheap" stuff in my 4000q and 944 with no problems. My
> 4000csq had 250k on it when I sold it, it was still running pretty
> well. The 944 had 150k on it when I sold it, I never had to take the
> head off but I replaced the waterpump every other time I did the
> timing belt and I replaced the radiator once.
> I forget what brand I was using but I only looked  for it to be safe
> for aluminum engines.

Ditto.  I wasn't going to chime in (this topic has only come up maybe 100
times), but I will.  I have been using, gasp, the "green stuff" in all my
Audi's, that includes 2 V8Q's, a 200TQA, a 90Q and the ole 5KS.  The 5KS
has been running the "battery acid" green (if you go by some posts on
this list) for over 17 years now, and I have never experienced an
abnormal failure of any cooling system component, period.  Same thing
goes for the cars I own higher up on the food chain, the V8Q #1 had
Prestone (or some green stuff) when I bought it, and I've used it since,
so that's at least 9 years, and the waterpump was only changed as a
maintenance item during the timing belt change, the radiator is still
OEM, as is the heater core and ALL the hoses.  The reservoir bottle blew
the bottom nipple, but that is a common failure after a decade or so in
operation.

There was a coolant manufacturer and re cycler that I knew (now gone to
make room for an office complex),  and they would supply the 55gal drums
to dealerships, the product was the same, but they could make it any
color you liked, from pretty pink to colorless, depending on what the
customer asked for.

Only precaution I take, is to always use distilled water, which I get for
free as a byproduct of the basement dehumidifier.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/

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