I read through the sticky on the power steering change and checked out the motorvate site but the how-to there for draining the reservoir completely appears to be for 4th gens and not the same for 5th gens. I was wondering if anyone has done this on their 5th gen, and if so, how.

Secondly, I was wondering if anyone had a good coolant flush and fill how-to (outside of the sticky) for those of us that don't have much of an idea how to do it (once again motorvate = 4th gen....not much help to us 5th gen guys).

Thanks for the help.

 

I just used a turkey buster, which I think is the easiest way.

 

Ya, that's what I had planned for the power steering, but the coolant service sounded like quite a bit more work.

 

Well, for the coolant, I am too lazy to drain the engine block. So, what I did was remove the drain plug of he radiator (located at the right side when facing the car), then stick a hose from the top, flush it and refill it with 50/50, plus Water Wetter. Then do it every year. It think that good enough. If you are really concern, you can do it twice a year.

 

Haha, definitely not more than once a year concerned.....but just wanted to make sure all the fluids were changed now that I have had the car for about 4 thousand miles.

 

You had it for 4k? Or the odometer is on 4k?

Since I don't have a place to do major work, I always just do a coolant change... Once a year should be good enough, esepcially with the Water Wetter.

 

I've had it for 4k.....the car has about 51k on it now.

 

You really want to try and get some of the old coolant in the rest of the system out, and your procedure doesn't really address that. Drain, fill with distilled, run the car until the t-stat opens (feel the rad hose to see if it gets hot and pressurized), then let it cool down and drain again. Otherwise, you are just shooting water through an already-clean radiator and not really forcing any of the fluid in the engine block or heater core out.