Guy are you for real? Distilled water is condensed water, your Nigerian tap water and borehole does not undergo any process that remove partly dissolved salts like calcium / magnesium carbonates, hence these salts will deposit in the radiator. Re: Where To Get Toyota Recommended Coolant by jpphilips( m): 10:45am On Aug 12, 2014 I will gladly pick it up if its the original at 5k in Nigeria without haggling! Some one said he got it for 7k here in Abuja. Bought mine around $26 from Amazon and so I agree with tuma on the quoted price because it costs so much shipping those 5-quartz oil and coolant to Nigeria because of their dead weight!. My '07 XLE V6 is still under 90k and I plan to drain and refill b4 the 100k just to be on the safe side. Actually, the coolant in the picture posted by Tumababa is the exact one that come in your car from factory ( Mine is the 2007 2GR-FE Engine) and is not due for replacement until 100K Miles because it is the Super long life coolant variant (its in your manual and on a sticker just on the lid of your hood when its open) after which you need to just drain and refill. ![]() Except there is a problem with your cooling system, no need to replace your coolant. Example: in some chysler vehicles, the silicates in regular coolant can eat away the cooling system sauders and a few incidents, some chysler vehicle had boiling hot coolant spray from their air vents! crazyĪll i am saying is that from the factory, nissan puts in regular antifreeze, not HOAT or OAT which are the long life versions.Coolant is not like engine oil that is replaced at interval. I am just saying, if you get green or orange OAT coolant, it will be fine.Īnd yes, mixing long-life and regular can cause damages. Like i said, do not worry about the color, usually the color will signify the type of coolant it is (HOAT,OAT, etc) but not always. This is a qoute from the link previously posted. All coolants are water white before dye is added." "Typically, this is a marketing decision. Oh yeah, coolant colors do matter.check this link out: Coolant Colors. The shop said that they could do a good flush and put in extended life if I wanted.but I think I will just keep up with the regular antifreeze myself. Also, I was told that if you were to put the extended life in the altima, you would need to do a good flush before so, otherwise your gaskets/seals would fail.so mixing wouldn't just degrade the extended life coolant, it could actually damage. They told me that Nissan specifically says that the altima is suppose to come with the non-extended antifreeze (this may be a ploy for them to make more money off easy coolant flushes, i'm not sure). So I called up the shop and asked them if they made a mistake.they told me no.and that their system has the antifreeze labeled in the system incorrectly. After checking the antifreeze when I got home, I noticed that I had the non-extended life green antifreeze. When I got the 30k service, my bill said on it that they put in extended life antifreeze. I went over this with a few Nissan shops. Just use regular prestone or Zerex antifreeze and you will be fine. If you mix longlife and regular, it is not recomended, but the only thing that will usually happen is you coolant life is redueced to the regular coolant. OUR cars use regular antifreeze, nothing special. ANyways, these are the 4 kinds and manufactures use different dye's in them so you think you have to buy Their own antifreeze. ![]() This is the basic coolant, usually green. Then there is Standard Ethylene Gycol that has silicates in it. Then there is Hybrid Organic Acid Technology, which is similiar but has SOME silicates in it. Organic Acid Technology, which is silicate free and long life, for such models as GM's dex-cool, toyotas, VW, vovlo,etc. Hasnt your deal tried to get you to pay 400 dollars for the 30k service, which includes coolant flush. ![]() Does you manual say get a coolant flush at 150,000 miles and not until then? No.
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