shouldn't be full coolant. Most car coolant mix with water.
Coolant is corrosive agent.

then i dun think so lor... as wat u've mentioned there.

i got the doubt becoz i see some Gen2 owner arguing about this. Hijawan told them Gen2 is best to use full coolant

no way.... coolant must mix with water..... cannot be full coolant...

there, got answer liao lor.

yeapz!! 1 vote from me..

btw, shackss.. do u know anything about ethanxxx changing the air box for wat reason huh?

What exactly is the coolant thingy? I actually just did the oil and filter change though, but no mention of coolant by the service center...

open up the mouth on top of the radiator and u'll c coolant there.. it helps to cool down the engine.. the place where u pour water in to the tank.. not the wiper 1.. ha! ha!.. i dono how 2 say this..

there r lots of coolant outside there.. hmm.. if i'm not wrong, mechanic recognise them by colour.. some r red and some r green.. correct me if i'm wrong

This post has been edited by mattchin: Sep 16 2006, 11:46 AM

Oh ic... No wonder my previous car before the Gen2 (the Beemer) always had overheating problems... Must be soemthing to do with the coolant as well as age of the car...

ha! ha! my experience wif over heat wif da old cars r the radiator.. especially goin up to genting..

Yalor, thats what happened to that junky BMW... We went up genting in three cars and my bro was driving the Beemer... The next day, after the "stress" of going up- and downhill, the BMW overheated and broke down as i was using it to go for appointment...

So inconvenient as i had to wait in the hot sun for the roadside assist ppl to check on the car (my company also does car assistance service, btw)... Turned out that it was a major radiator problem that required servicing and cost more than 1k!

nope...the beemer especially the 3 series do have overheating probs when it started to age... my uncle 96 model kena that oso... spend more than SGD1xk to solve it but no solution...

matt,
dunno leh... it seems like he wanna test new configurations as the one ain't wat he really expected wor...

u should b happy for it 2 cost u rm1k+-.. ha! ha!.. it's a beemer.. i heard ppl said rm5k for a beemer is reasonable enuff..
if i'm not wrong, once over heat and the over heat problem will haunt u..

ha! ha!.. is it his expectation high o is it he is juz too high for an ori mod...
so who can recomend my first mod into my gen 2.. my gen 2 is still a virgin..

Thats y luckily i sold the BMW off before the car starts to kill me financially! Anyway the Gen2 is far cheaper to maintain, plus having a smaller fuel tank will mean less pricey gasoline...

when proton say gen2 must use 100% coolant dont be confused... their coolant is already premix with water so thats why they say 100% coolant...

that explain everything.

maybe he doesn't know..

yep...
proton use premix coolant for our cars but they say its 100% coolant. this also usually applies to continental cars such as renult and citreon which uses valeo coolant that comes in premixed packs.
there is also coolant that u have to mix with one part or two parts water depending on ur vehicle specs.

btw, dont even think of putting 100% non premix coolant in your car.

coolant colour is usually red or green. the green is ususally the normal one that are used on many cars however toyota came up with the red one which is long life coolant...
note that i say usually cause its better not to judge it by its colour....

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k&n air filters
and
hotbits extractors

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