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General => The garage => Topic started by: emery1990 on 06 November 2010, 13:54

Title: Engine coolant
Post by: emery1990 on 06 November 2010, 13:54

Is the likes of g12 coolant just normal anti freeze ? Is it oil based, reason I ask is because when filling up solar panels with glycol which is antifreeze, ive always got some left and need to fill up my coolant, so could I just use this, as its its just anti freeze. Or is g12 and other anti freeze products made more engines ? This is stuff is like £1 a litre rather than the £12 /l of g12!

Title: Re: Engine coolant
Post by: tech1889 on 06 November 2010, 17:56

tps is £6/litre of g12++ i believe and as far as im told its a much better anitfreeze for the engine..

Title: Re: Engine coolant
Post by: emery1990 on 06 November 2010, 23:38

ermmm, still not convinced, id be more worried about the water pump than the engine, as the engine is a big lump of metal.

Title: Re: Engine coolant
Post by: rubjonny on 08 November 2010, 10:15

nothing special about it really, most antifreeze will do same job. just a case of dont match incompatible types, mix g11 blue and g12 red and it turns to brown sluge. G12+ and ++ purple are formulated to mix with both.  if you want i can piccy the back of a bottle so you know whats in em. main thing is car antifreeze has anti-corrosion inhibitors in em, your special panel stuff may not.  car engines use a mix of metals where your panels might be all the same stuff in the coolant channels

Title: Re: Engine coolant
Post by: emery1990 on 08 November 2010, 18:29

Yer this stuff is just  plain old glycol, its cooper and stainless steel.

Just would of been handy as its like £1 a litre!

Ill just get the proper stuff lol

Title: Re: Engine coolant
Post by: pluslyn on 09 November 2010, 18:26

I use Comma Xstream Red Longlife Antifreeze. (Audi/Seat/Skoda/VW), MB(325.3), MAN(324-SNF)

Pure Concentrate Ethylene glycol, silicate free with organic acid. For petrol & diesel engines Longlife 5 year Protection.

www.commaoil.com