Cooling system hoses and some questions??

[rubjonny]

Oh and if you're totally filling up your coolant system, you'll probably need 2 bottles of coolant.  Make sure you get some de-ionised water from Halfords (battery top-up water) too, helps prevent corrosion.  I had just under half a bottle of coolant left over, I topped it up with the battery water and chucked it in the boot just in case

[Snap]

I will do that, the cleaning of the hoses. Ok so is that the Top radiator, bottom radiator hose and the 2 hoses in the pic in my other post? Anymore hoses?

Also how much de-ionised water to add to the hoses? Im presumming you add the water eventhough the coolant is a 50:50 mix?

[rubjonny]

There are 2 hoses to the heater matrix, another hose from the water pump to under the flange where the top hose goes, and the little return hose that goes from the rad to the header tank

If the coolant is a nice blue colour you probably wont have to worry about flushing it out too much, like I say the G12+ will mix with any other type without going funny.  Just blast the matrix, the block and the radiator through with a hose.  Another trick is after you drain it, fill it back up with tap water and run the engine for a few minutes then drain it again, that should clean most of the old coolant out

50:50 mix is what I use and my engine has been fine all winter and doesn't run hot

[Deefadog]

Just about to refill my system also, what is the capacity of the system (Mk2 gti 16v)? I think someone told me 7 liters, is this correct?

[Snap]

Ive done it now. Took longer than expected coz the main stealer i bought the pipe from ordered the wrong one. Thanks to everyone for their advice.

deefadog: I think the capacity in my mk2 1.8 driver was less than 2L's.

[rubjonny]

its about 6.3 litres I think, Snap: You probably only got 2 because the block hadn't been drained