COLOUR OF COOLANT

[bigjim]

SHOULD BE ORANGE SHOULDNT IT? DIFFICULT TO TELL THROUGH BOTTLE BUT IM SURE MINES IS A BIT BROWNY IN COLOUR, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

[jill]

Mine used to be brown, but now it's bright green (Thanks to Lunner)

[Christian]

It could be picking up rust or crap or something on its route? It might be worth flushing the system and then seeing if it happens again??

ps I'm no expert

[Lunner]

mine was a dark blacky colour, suspected head gasket going, so flushed it and replaced it and the ****ing stuff i put in was comma xtreme, and that started off as a horrible dark colour

[KingStromba]

Coolant is blue or green usually, depending on where you buy it.

If its brown it means its full of rust and isnt cooling your engine properly because the aditives have broken down and rust saturated water isnt the best collant. Bye bye head gasket.


:P

[Jan]

hmmm - i sense a coolant flush coming on this weekend!

[Lunner]

30 minute job at most, just use plenty of water and flush it all through till it runs clear, what i did was fill it up with normal water a few times, run the engine for a minute or so, drain and refil etc etc, cleans everything then

[Jan]

what mixture should i use when i refill the system?

[Lunner]

What ever the coolant recomends, i used a 50/50 mix, seems to be keeping the temps down better then my 30/70 mix i used last time

[TriO`]

30 minute job at most

I had to remove the front bumper and the radiator's plastic bit on my valver just to get the bottom hose off :( It was impossible to reach down and get a proper grip on the hose clip from the top without mangling my hands...

Damn big hands! (I think we've had this big hand convo before.)

anyhow, it still wasnt too hard.

After fitting a brand new header tank and fully flushing, my water is now a lovely green instead of the shitty brown it's been for ages