Which coolant to use?

[john blutarski]

too late

and too late

you already ****** your s*** up... you mixed the coolant and since it's contaminated, you will NEVER get it out save for replacing every component and hot tanking the engine block

so while you may never see any problems out of this, keep in mind that your coolant life has now been reduced

You can't be serious??

 

[TheMAN]

Its no big deal at all. According to that FL22 service bulletin:

"FL22 coolant is compatible with current (Green) ethylene glycol coolant."

sure it is... you just reduced the coolant change interval to the regular mazda coolant

 

[john blutarski]

sure it is... you just reduced the coolant change interval to the regular mazda coolant

I doubt that the 1/4 cup of regular coolant I added changed the interval much if at all.

 

[TheMAN]

you'd be surprise just how little of a different coolant can totally contaminate a system
for example, a retard drains a late model toyota camry's radiator and "flush" it (hell you don't even need to do that on toyotas as its engine blocks typically have a separate drain plug)... the toyota takes the special pink coolant... he puts in regular green s***... there's still a tiny bit pink s*** inside...

result: the coolant turns into a glob of s***


but since what you did doesn't "hurt" the FL22, it really does reduce its life

 

[ericrapp]

Isn't coolant a misnomer as the temperatures run cooler with straight water. Is it not actually anti freeze?

 

[ReNaToMS3]

When i bought my coolant, i did it from a regular parts store but i made sure that it said for "aluminum engines" on the bottle. If you don't have the FL22 sticker, that should do just fine.