[s-cars] Water Rather Than Coolant/Water

[calvinlc at earthlink.net]

Yeah, but water is more efficient at cooling than antifreeze and as long as
your system is still pressurized the boiling point will be around 225 to 230
for pure water and if you are running that hot with a full cooling system
you have bigger problems.
--Calvin


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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:59 AM
To: David Kase
Cc: audifans; Mark Strangways
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Water Rather Than Coolant/Water


That sounds good to me. My only concern was boiling over, as water has a
lower boiling point than antifreeze or a mixture of both. Since the trip
should be short, and I'll be doing it in the early morning, I think it'll be
fine. Thanks.

On 6/29/07, David Kase <davekase at pdqlocks.com> wrote:
>
> I concur.  A slightly safer approach would be to use distilled water but I
> doubt if it would really have any long term gains.
>
> David Kase
>
>
>
> Mark Strangways wrote:
>
> Unless your expecting a flash freeze, I think I would just top it up with
> tap water and then get the work done and flush the entire system.
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Molyneux" <mmolyneux at gmail.com> <mmolyneux at gmail.com>
> To: "audifans" <s-car-list at audifans.com> <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:25 AM
> Subject: [s-cars] Water Rather Than Coolant/Water
>
>
>
>
> In regards to my earlier question about common coolant leaks, I'm about to
> drive the car to my mechanic to have him hopefully fix the leak, but I
> only
> have one bottle (1 gallon) of the blue VW/Audi coolant (G11, I believe) on
> hand. With most of the coolant that was in my car now in a puddle on the
> floor, would it be advisable to fill it with the remaining gallon and then
> top off the rest with distilled water? Under this scenario, I'm thinking
> there will be MUCH more water than coolant (like 3 or 4 to one ratio,
> depending on how much the S holds and how much is left in the system). I'm
> only driving it about 7 or 8 miles, and most will be on the highway, but I
> just want to be sure that it won't be damaged by running almost entirely
> on
> distilled water. Once at the shop I'll have it flushed and refilled with
> the
> proper 50-50 mix.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
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> Washington, D.C.
> 1995 UrS6
> MTM Stage 1+, EDU 6-speed
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1995 UrS6
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