Jamz3k

Why can't you mix Red and blue coolant? Whats the differences?

Steve vRS

Who would want purple coolant? That's why.

Steve

Dedrater

Yeah you can btw

200sex

iTrader: (2)

no you carnt there made of a different compound would make thing alot easyer if you could

gallois

The difference between the two colours is that Orange / Red antifreeze contains a different type of corrosion inhibitor that has a much longer life than silicates, phosphates and borates. Orange / Red antifreeze contains organic acids that protect engine parts from corrosion.

Green antifreeze does not mix with long life antifreeze. Never mix the two colours in a cooling system. The organic acids in orange types will cause precipitation of silicates in the green type and corrosion protection is greatly reduced.

dunno what it means though.

TurboAndy

iTrader: (1)

The colors are additives, meant to distinguish one set of properties from another. Unfortunately the colors, and additives do not neccisarily match from supplier to supplier. Best thing to do is to read the labels before you buy.

Jamz3k

Well i b(r)ought pink coolant and i hope to **** that its pink coolant in my system as I have to replace the thermostat on my motor tomorrow and can't be arsed having to drain the whole system.

Jamz_

iTrader: (12)

Should have just stuck a strip of paper in your header tank to check what colour you have in at the moment.

Jamz3k

What a feckin good idea, too bad I didn't think of something like that at the time.

I know the coolant has never been changed in my ownership anyway. So maybe it deserved a good flushing out!

Northern Nick

iTrader: (1)

I read about this before and I can't for the life of me find the colour my antifreeze is; brown?

Jamz_

iTrader: (12)

There was a big topic about this on here a couple of months ago.... just did a search but can i hell find it....

Leslie

I was surprised when I heard about the red antifreeze, had not heard about it. At least I know the differences in their respective make-up now.

Les