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[jay99]

Hello

Today I followed the guide on how to change the antifreeze myself and it was a success! The old one was filthy and required a lot of flushing out and hadn't been changed in many years. What an achievement, I could be a mechanic now, got a chuffed feeling.

One more thing, you know on the maintenance guide, it states that you let the old antifreeze run free but this is very very wrong, if I did this today then many cats could have died. ANTIFREEZE KILLS, DO NOT LET IT RUN FREE AND MAKE SURE YOU USE A BOWL TO CATCH IT.

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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

You use the same stuff as me. I find it fine.

.......except I use the concentrated rather than the ready mixed stuff.

[BazaJT]

Where is that available from,and how much if you don't mind me asking.

[tunnie]

Looks like eurocarparts stock.

Guide is mine, I just washed drive afterwards.

[Webby the Bear]

I use the concentrate triple qx too. Purchased from euro parts online 

[05omegav6]

Valid point re the guide, only needs somne to be prosecuted for it, and for them to use the guide as a defence

It is illegal to deliberately allow coolant to flow into open drains or soakaways.

You can, however, flush it down the toilet as sewage is treated whereas drainwater isn't

I use a washing up bowl, depressurise the system by opening the expansion cap. Then drain down by partly opening the drain plug.

Any spillage can be rinsed away with gallons of water

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I let it piss all over the drive and then instruct my butler to hose it away.

[jay99]

Brought from eurocarparts oldham 2 ready mixed 5 litre bottles for a grand total of £15

It actually works out cheaper than 1 5 litre concentrate bottle which costs 2 pounds more which left the man there stumped. Wierd.

Going tp start on the mid conversion ane cruise retrofit tomorrow 

[Shackeng]

Hello

Today I followed the guide on how to change the antifreeze myself and it was a success! The old one was filthy and required a lot of flushing out and hadn't been changed in many years. What an achievement, I could be a mechanic now, got a chuffed feeling.

One more thing, you know on the maintenance guide, it states that you let the old antifreeze run free but this is very very wrong, if I did this today then many cats could have died. ANTIFREEZE KILLS, DO NOT LET IT RUN FREE AND MAKE SURE YOU USE A BOWL TO CATCH IT.

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Can you guarantee that?

[zirk]

I let it piss all over the drive and then instruct my butler to hose it away.

Your soo common, I get my Chauffeur to do the job, then the Butler hoses the Drive in and out down.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Brought from eurocarparts oldham 2 ready mixed 5 litre bottles for a grand total of £15

It actually works out cheaper than 1 5 litre concentrate bottle which costs 2 pounds more which left the man there stumped. Wierd.

Going tp start on the mid conversion ane cruise retrofit tomorrow 

Using the discount codes I believe that I paid something like £11 for 5 litres of the concentrated stuff.

It's just about possible to get 5 litres of coolant back in after draining the system so it couldn't have been an easy task to get almost 10 litres of ready mixed in for a 50/50 mix.

PS. just noticed that you own a 4 pot. 

[VXL V6]

Need to drop the water pump off a V6 to drain it fully imho.