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Originally Posted by soundman98
i was in high school in the early 2000's. back when gm's dexcool cars started all the issues of people just putting the good ol' green stuff back in, 'because they knew better'...
i've sat on the side of the road from the aftermath in friends cars. i've seen the repair bills, at least before the car was scrapped because it cost too much to repair.
i'm not claiming that subaru's flavor of coolant tastes better or is in any way more superior, i'm only saying that these cars came with that flavor, and for anyone to make the choice to alter it to a different color/brand/type means that you're taking matters into your own hands, and bad shit happening ain't out of the question anymore. unless you've done the research to make sure that a different variant of coolant isn't going to soften silicones, or deteriorate gaskets, it's always a bad idea to change coolant types.
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Yes, change coolant *TYPES*
Like Subaru's blue Super Coolant and Toyota's pink Super Long Life Coolant are both PHOAT, the color difference means nothing. I'm not saying to just dump green prestone from 50 years ago in there.
But what I'm getting at here is that I've seen this tendency a few times on here, where someone comes in with a picture of a leak or some shit and instead of helping, the fluid itself becomes the topic of the conversation.
That needs to stop.
It's OK to mention it so it gets properly flushed and refilled with the right stuff once it's repaired, but it shouldn't become the top issue.