Crusty jack
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Mercedes 2.9 5 pot 1999: can one of you kind folks please tell me if it uses red or blue antifreeze; I think blue. Thanks in advance, Toby.
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wrong in so many way's.OAT5 means organic acid technology and the 5 means years,it keeps the anti freeze alkaline, perfect for mixed metal engine's.Your Sprinter will be unable to cope with the so called oat5 (some red anti freeze's) antifreeze, so I'd stick to blue & that'd be playing it safe.
wrong in so many way's.OAT5 means organic acid technology and the 5 means years,it keeps the anti freeze alkaline, perfect for mixed metal engine's.
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strange i had a 1994 disco used red antifreeze all the time i owned it sold it with well over 180,000 miles on the clock.We live & learn. All I know is that I made the mistake of putting oat5 into my Land Rover Discovery, it melted the head gasket & pretty much every other gasket on the car. Mucho expensive & never again. When I drove the car forward I left a puddle of pink goo & never even saw it til the smoke cleared.
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strange i had a 1994 disco used red antifreeze all the time i owned it sold it with well over 180,000 miles on the clock.
how can using a coolant melt a head gasket? air lock is more likely the reason?
what was it a v8 or tdi? not that it makes a difference .I really dont know what went wrong. The Discovery only has 28k on the clock, the stuff was a nightmare & totally unsuitable for that car, I thought I was taking care of the car with the best of stuff.
i think your land rover dealer was telling porky's,there is absolutely no reason for red antifreeze to damage a tdi engine,its a coolant with added corrosion inhibitors that is all,and will last 5 years or 150.000 miles.TDI & it was the local Land Rover dealership that told me what had went wrong. Never heard of it before or since. I've owned 3 Discovery's & one Range Rover L322 which did run on that pink stuff very happily!!
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We live & learn. All I know is that I made the mistake of putting oat5 into my Land Rover Discovery, it melted the head gasket & pretty much every other gasket on the car. Mucho expensive & never again. When I drove the car forward I left a puddle of pink goo & never even saw it til the smoke cleared.