[s-cars] Water Rather Than Coolant/Water

[David Kase]

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.
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>Mark
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>From: "Matt Molyneux" <mmolyneux at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:25 AM
>Subject: [s-cars] Water Rather Than Coolant/Water
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>>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.
>>
>>-- 
>>Matt Molyneux
>>Washington, D.C.
>>1995 UrS6
>>MTM Stage 1+, EDU 6-speed
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