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General Car Related Discussion.To discuss anything that is related to cars and automotive technology that doesnt naturally fit into another forum catagory.
I'm going to do a coolant change in the S1, and given the lack of mileage she does I'm thinking that using waterless could be better rather than water based, but haven't heard much about them.
Very good stuff does what it says. My car runs hot but now it runs hot without the pressure. I can take the header tank cap off with the fans in and the coolant doesn't move.
I think a common sense approach needs to be applied to this stuff, if you have issues of a car overheating then theres a fault so rectify that first and then use WC as its not a cure for overheating, but if you have the budget to install this then I see no reason not to
I am interested in in from the no corrosion point of view! as the CVH block can rust! this is suppost to stop all of that! also boiling point is 180 not 100!
the boiling point of water is not 100 if it's in a pressurised system - that's the point
i would rather have something that is going to blow of a load of steam if there's a problem rather than continuing to rise in temperature up to 180 as i don't think your block and head would thank you for that.
It also runs a fair few degrees hotter than water. Personally I wouldn't bother with it. It's also near enough £200 by the time you buy the prep fluid etc.