Originally posted by bowlcut-vr6
coolant is coolant until it comes to 97.5+ vw's. they switched their whole cooling system into some fucked up ass shit and it basically requires overpriced hard to find flamming ass pink coolant called g-12. using thegreenish blue(g-11) coolant will fuck everything to shit. g-12 is similar to the gm dexcool but not quit the same.
jeremy
you know i have had a coolant leak since i've had the car (about 6 months or so). the first time i was low on coolant i went to the vw dealer but the service department was closed. the salesman said coolant is coolant. so i've been putting coolant in there since then. i use the stuff that is already mixed. when i first started using it i noticed the pink coolant already in there but didn't pay any attention to it. even though i pour the totally different stuff in there the coolant still stays pink. on vwvortex i read something like if you use non-g12 coolant make sure it is approved for aluminum radiators or somthing like that. i've never really read a coolant bottle before so i don't know. so far i haven't had any problems. maybe i'll just break down and get that coolant leak fixed and use g12 for now on
they already quoted me a price on fixing the leak and it was mad expensive and its not even leaking that bad. thats why i haven't gotten it fixed yet.