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06-05-2001, 02:03 PM

ericdwong

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My car has 63,000 miles or so on it. I bought it used last year (begining of June) with 42,000 miles (wow I drive alot). Anyway, I went to change the coolant today, only to find out that the coolant looked perfectly good. It was bright green, with no rusty spots at all. I think it might have been changed already when the car was being prepped to be resold. I then looked in the owners manual, and then it said after 60K, once every 30K or 24 months. My question is, I only dumped the radiator. I will fill it back up with 50/50, but do I have to worry about dumping the block as it seems my coolant looks fine? While I'm at it, I'm gonna toss in some redline water wetter :-)

06-05-2001, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by ericdwong
My car has 63,000 miles or so on it. I bought it used last year (begining of June) with 42,000 miles (wow I drive alot). Anyway, I went to change the coolant today, only to find out that the coolant looked perfectly good. It was bright green, with no rusty spots at all. I think it might have been changed already when the car was being prepped to be resold. I then looked in the owners manual, and then it said after 60K, once every 30K or 24 months. My question is, I only dumped the radiator. I will fill it back up with 50/50, but do I have to worry about dumping the block as it seems my coolant looks fine? While I'm at it, I'm gonna toss in some redline water wetter :-)

I think you'll be fine filling the radiator with 50/50 mix. I did mine last Saturday. The coolant wasn't clear and it had some crud in it. I did a flush and all was fine.