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Offline Mark V GTD

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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #10 on: 12 January 2018, 16:42 »
I just bought a litre of the pink stuff from ebay and top it up direct from the bottle.

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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #11 on: 12 January 2018, 17:00 »
Thanks, but my question is, isn’t it meant to be G13 in the Mk7 and G13 is apparently purple not pink?

See here, scroll half way down to the chart

https://www.wolflubes.com/EN_EU/Blog/2016/What-you-need-to-know-about-G13-antifreeze-and-coolant.aspx
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #12 on: 12 January 2018, 17:57 »
Just go to VW dealer, ask for a bottle of G13 coolant. Hand him the money, top up coolant bottle when required. You can argue then with yourself whether you think it’s purple or pink ! :drool:
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #13 on: 12 January 2018, 18:05 »
The stuff I buy is the same colour as the stuff already in the car from the factory - thats good enough for me :-)

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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #14 on: 12 January 2018, 19:12 »
Well if you look at my first post, I’ve already been thru the issue of murky coolant, that previous owner probably caused, so trying to avoid it again. I will double check with dealer.
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #15 on: 12 January 2018, 20:02 »


Dilute to required ratio with de-ionised water (from your condensers tumble dryer, or Halfords sell it in 5ltr bottles as battery top up water)
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #16 on: 12 January 2018, 21:51 »
Thanks Booth!
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #17 on: 13 January 2018, 13:52 »


Dilute to required ratio with de-ionised water (from your condensers tumble dryer, or Halfords sell it in 5ltr bottles as battery top up water)

Great tip about the tumble dryer water Rebecca.
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #18 on: 13 January 2018, 14:08 »


Dilute to required ratio with de-ionised water (from your condensers tumble dryer, or Halfords sell it in 5ltr bottles as battery top up water)

Great tip about the tumble dryer water Rebecca.

Alternatively, if you run a water filter for detailing, you can use water run through that as it’s DI water.
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Re: Expansion tank / coolant colour
« Reply #19 on: 14 January 2018, 11:03 »
Detailing, ha ha, no point living in London!
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