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Originally Posted by Jfheisenberg
Interesting thanks, now that i think back, i remeber that my subaru svx used to consume a lot of coolant as well, like you said, might be a boxer thing. ill buy some coolant from subaru sometime this week. so based on the pictures should i fill it up all the way to full? Even after car is warm the coolant fluid is still low.
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Jfheisenberg ........ I'm ah feared you are overthinking your situation.
Points to ponder:
Assuming no leaks in the cooling system, most of the loss of the coolant mixture is due to evaporation/dissipation
of the water part of the mixture. A simple check of the vapor pressure of ethylene glycol compared to the VP of water will show that.
The blue coolant stuff is roughly 50% water.
Therefore, most of the mixture that is disappearing (not leaking) , is
water.
The system holds about 7.5 ish quarts.
I might take a pint of liquid to top it off.
So, if the system is a little low, why not top it off with
distilled water.
The manual says to fill the reservoir up to the full mark
when the engine is cold.
Now, relax ........
humfrz