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Alternative to Honda coolant?
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08/10/18 10:03 PM
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http://www.oemantifreeze.com/oem-blue/Purchased this coolant from Pep Boys last year. I purchased the concentrate which is meant to be diluted 50:50 with distilled water. It was around $12/gallon so about a quarter of the price of diluted Honda coolant with shipping. I wanted to flush the system with distilled water which I can do with the concentrate. Looks like it is equivalent to Honda coolant. Anyone have experience with this product?
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Re: Alternative to Honda coolant?
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08/10/18 10:17 PM
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It is good stuff! You can use it with no problems  Some advice with concentrate coolant that you have to add water yourself: mix the water and coolant before pouring it into the radiator! You can use the water jug for this. And also, the Lisle coolant funnel is awesome. Other good choices are the blue Zerex Asian they aell at Walmart, or Pentofrost A3 from AAP or Napa. The A3 is the actual OE coolant and made in Japan. However, both the Zerex and Pentofrost are 50/50 premix
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Re: Alternative to Honda coolant?
[Re: deoxy4]
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08/11/18 04:45 AM
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AZ has a new line also, the manager was telling me his product sheet shows it being made by Pentosin. True or not, I have no idea. They are using the same label colors as OE on the black jugs. It doesn't come up on their website so it might not be in every store.
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Re: Alternative to Honda coolant?
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08/11/18 07:39 AM
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It is good stuff! You can use it with no problems  Some advice with concentrate coolant that you have to add water yourself: mix the water and coolant before pouring it into the radiator! You can use the water jug for this. And also, the Lisle coolant funnel is awesome. Other good choices are the blue Zerex Asian they aell at Walmart, or Pentofrost A3 from AAP or Napa. The A3 is the actual OE coolant and made in Japan. However, both the Zerex and Pentofrost are 50/50 premix Why do u recommend mixing before pouring into the rad? When I do full coolant flushes, I just pour concentrate coolant directly into the rad at 1/2 the capacity of the cooling system, then fill the rest of the way w distilled. Never had any issues on GM, Toyota, etc that I’ve worked on
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Re: Alternative to Honda coolant?
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08/11/18 07:42 AM
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Why do u recommend mixing before pouring into the rad? When I do full coolant flushes, I just pour concentrate coolant directly into the rad at 1/2 the capacity of the cooling system, then fill the rest of the way w distilled. Never had any issues on GM, Toyota, etc that I’ve worked on That's the only way you can do it unless somehow you know the exact amount of water remaining in the engine after flushing. If you pre-mix the concentrate how do you know what concentration to mix it at to end up at a desired concentration in the engine allowing for the remaining water? Even if you know it would require a Laplace transform or Bessel function to get it I think 
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