@Slow Car Sport Mode - What problem are you trying to fix?
Reason I ask: here is a 19 year old water pump from a 234,000 mile car next to a new one. See the difference?
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Yeah, me neither…
So, what is the problem you think exists in the Taurus? Other than peer into the expansion tank, what steps have you taken to determine the cooling system condition?
Some months ago, the coolant looked like a brownish A%W root beer. I don't drink root beer so I can't make witry brand references...but it was pretty dirty.
It was also brought to my attention sometime in Q1 of this year that Universal antifreeze "Is a lie, there is no such thing" and that I may have been doing the cooling system a DISservice by partial drain and fills with it and apparently it can eat head gaskets and things.
Then there is the whole issue of "Dex-cool" - although this car maybe came with G-05, which AFAIK isn't Dex Cool so. Possible avoided bullet there.
The winter, I was able to do siphons and partial drain and fills with distilled water to achieve ever clearer looking coolant.. this went very well until water pump started letting us know it needed to be changed via the weep hole. Car never overheated and it was replaced in time. (Some wouldn't have drove it at all with a weeping water pump. I was tasked with checking the coolant level before each trip, as we need the vehicle, until it was fixed. Problem avoided. And yes I lost an engine that way once.... let's not go backwards..)
So, with the RMI-25... I'm really still not sure exactly what it is supposed to do, honestly, xcept make the coolant look like mustard. Still, with the Taurus iron block and iron heads Vulcan engine having some really funky coolant in its water jackets for awhile and now having new coolant... well, if it is supposed to Condition...
I've never even heard of a 3357, no wonder they didn't match Body shops 🙄 Some new matching 3457s in the Milan Oil change, Kirkland 5w30/910s The Cadillac also got an oil change AmazonBasics 0w20 and a GM PF66 filter Still waiting on that nationally backordered EVAP purge pump
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2007 Acura TSX with the mighty K24, 127K Out: probably original coolant In: SuperTech Asian Blue
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Since the Taurus is seeing " an uptick in use" I thought.. Hey, maybe the RMI-25 is a good product to have in the cooling system
rather than sitting on the shelf.
I think there is at least one other member I've heard runs RMI-25. I just know very little about it. If it is a good product.
Or, to your point.. if it does anything. A point of logic is, that some say, if it doesn't do anything, then it can't harm anything, either, if it doesn't help.. again, I don't know with RMI-25.
I don’t object to spending money to fix something. To address a problem.
But this looks a lot like spending money for the sake of spending money.
You don’t have enough data to know if it is needed, or not.
@Astro14 You're right.. this is something I had purchased already.
If it is helpful, I'd rather it be in the cooling system while the car does double and triple duty in my list of assessments and checkpoints to hopefully become the new SV-D or GS-5/6 Civilian Federal Employee we are talking about, and oh man am I ready for that. I need it. I want it. I'll do what it takes. It's time.
If it's not, I want to use it up so I can make a mental note to never purchase again.
Operating theory was "WOW that was a neglected cooling system."
I also don't want to discourage anyone else from posting
about RMI-25. I used an example of the 2004 Taurus SES in my signature.. 138,815 miles today. I don’t want anyone to think I'm telling them not to share their experiences or opinions or info etc.