what is the very best anti freeze?
Big difference between orange Dex-cool, pink Toyota, and some other colored antifreezes. I've heard of problems with Deathcool due to allowing oxygen contact or some such thing, but no problems caused by the other antifreezes, as long as they're change before their corrosion inhibitors are depleted.quote:
Originally posted by D C Anderson:
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The Mechanics are blaming these head gasket failures on the pink or orange antifreeze. They feel this antifreeze is eating away at the gaskets. They have seen this on other makes of vehicles also. Toyota, Ford etc. Does anyone else agree with this?
no. if this type of antifreeze was eating head gaskets you'd see many many more vehicles having the same problem, and there are gazillions of cars now running extended life antifreeze. There is probably some other problem which compounded and caused the head gasket to fail and could be any number of things.quote:
Originally posted by D C Anderson:
They feel this antifreeze is eating away at the gaskets. They have seen this on other makes of vehicles also. Toyota, Ford etc. Does anyone else agree with this?