well I'll come back to Steve Rob reviews today guys we're going to talk about coolant do you
know what kind of coolant you should be putting in your vehicle you see this right here this is
generic brand this is a universal coolant called Prestone can use guys guess whether you should put
this in your vehicle or not let's go in the shop let's have a little bit of chat about coolant okay
let's get started here exactly why should you know about coolant well you really don't have
to know anything about cooling what do I know about coolant absolutely nothing so what am I
gonna explain to you here today I'm gonna explain to you that if you own an automobile whether it's
a diesel operated engine or a gasoline operated engine you don't have to know anything about
coolant to pick the right cool if you guessed this was the right coolant to use what did you
do you just guessed and that's what you don't want to do when you're putting coolant in your
automobile truck no matter what it is you want to put the right coolant so what is the right
coin well we're gonna get to that first of all a lot of people have had different philosophies
on coolant and what kind of water to use I use distilled water now why do I use it because the
manufacturer told me to use it interesting thing for motor craft coolant says use distilled water
presto nor any other generic brand of universal coolant they may be different I don't know this
just says use clean water doesn't say distilled or ionized water ACDelco Dexcool says use clean
water doesn't say use distilled water or deionized water I use it distilled water for one reason only
logic to me it seems normal that if I use water that doesn't have all kinds of chlorine in it or
our heavy metals or chemicals or if you live out in the country and you you have hard water well I
just don't want to take a chance on using anything except distilled water you go to your garage what
are they using I have yet found one garage that I know that uses distilled water they just use
whatever comes out of the tap in the shop is it the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do
I have no idea I have no idea and neither do most of you so let's get on to how do you actually mix
your cord well I use this jug right here and I put I mixed mine fifty-fifty I put half water
in my case to still water the other half I use the court I mix it in here now I have seen some
people throw a jug of concentrated coolant in there and then throw a jug of regular tap water
in there or whatever water they have and is that the right way to put it or not I really don't know
the reason why I mix it in this jug is because it says in the instructions to mix it 50/50 now does
that mean mixing it in your rad or mixing it in a jug who knows right the only thing is I have a
couple of friends that do engine rebuilding and they have told me that when they have told tore
apart some engines looking in the water jackets that some of them they open up and it's just pure
coolant coming out so they're saying to me that it doesn't actually circulate as much as people
think a lot of times it just settles in a low spot and stays there and doesn't get mixed in
do I know I have no idea I'm just getting this information secondhand off of somebody else to
me I mix it because it seems logical that's the only reason why I'm doing it so there's all kinds
of different colons this one here Dexcool ford motor craft I put this one in my my f-150 and
we have the pressed dome which is universal now this year says for all in all models I'd like you
to think about something if that was for all makes and all models why don't all the makes and all the
models all use this they would save a fortune on putting in a universal coolant rather than putting
in their own coolant but they don't do that what do they do they put their own coolant out with
their own out of the package this is the same as this I have no idea I have no idea at the Ford
Ford coolant and the AC Delco coolant is the exact same thing in the exact same bottle but different
colors this is yellow this is orange do I know the difference I have no idea let's use a little
bit of logic here automobile manufacturers they're not dummies and they hire automotive
engineers Society of Automotive Engineers they are about sharpest people you're going to get
on the planet they work off of two things one how to design things and number two liability
what's the cost of putting this in your vehicle universal coolant compared to putting in what the
manufacturer says that you should put in if you look in the back of your owners manual they are
not going to say go and put in a universal coolant they're going to say put in their coolant now are
they just hosing you on saying well you got to use our stuff and pay more and most times it is
more I paid $17 for a jug of this concentrated you have to mix yourself and my ford coolant was $24
now why did I go and buy the Ford coolant from f150 because it says in the back of the manual
to use it it doesn't say use Universal cool it now are you gonna run into any problems if you
use the universal coolant in your car I have no idea but let's think about you know in a little
bit of a retrospective and engineer here what's the liability do you know what's going to happen
if you do put in a universal coolant in your late model vehicle well most people are going to say
I don't know who just go there and the guide the parts test says there you go there's the cooling
go to what's a liability well most people just don't know what the liability is you don't know if
you're gonna cause any problems with your engine your cooling system all the different internal
parts that are cooled lubricated you have no idea so why are you going with the universal coin all
most times is because it's accessible it's easy to get and it costs less money but in my opinion
it may cost you more money in the long run if it is not compatible with your vehicle now it says
all makes and models and if you're an automotive technician I'd love to hear if you work on late
model vehicles and you use universal coolant at your dealership or at your particular automotive
facility that you work out of or if you're an independent shop owner myself if I have a late
model vehicle and I go to my independent shop and all he does is put in universal coolant and
everything that comes in through out the door I'm going to another shop now that's my own personal
opinion and for me I like to use the coolants that the vehicle is designed for because I am
NOT an automotive engineer I have no training and none of you watching this video most likely have
any specific engineering training in chemicals to know what coolant you should put in and what
coolant you shouldn't put in all we are doing is getting digested information off the internet
or people you know going online and searching you know could you use this and could you use that you
know what the safest thing you could do is put the coolant in the vehicle that the manufacturer calls
for because guess what you're not guessing now you know that that is the right coolant for your
vehicle now if you go to an independent and they put universal coolant in your late model vehicle
how would you know the difference well unless you're up on coolants and you know the difference
in the colors or you know you just particularly you just ask and say okay so what kind of college
did you put my vehicle today well I just put the no name no brand Universal coolant it's good for
everything don't worry about it you drive off you may never have a problem you may never have
a problem and if you do have a problem maybe six months a year two years from now do you think you
could possibly tie it to the universal coolant I don't think you could it'd be pretty hard to
prove no there's always been a discussion about mixing coolant can you mix two different coolants
Universal so you can mix it with everything well I don't know about that I will tell you something
I have seen it myself where people mix different coolants together and it don't work out too good
now that's my own opinion and that's about it now our universal coolants bag absolutely not
there is a place for universal colloids and I will use one example myself my Chevy Silverado
I use a universal coolant I use this coolant and the reason why I do it is because way back
then we did have a lot of media information put out about Dexcool and how it was gelling up and
all this kind of stuff turned out that most of that information was actually incorrect and to
this day Dexcool is still getting a bad name off of a reason I can't see no logic in but at
the time when I changed over I had to put a new water pump in my truck I flushed it all out and
I started with this here and I have never had a problem since and you know what that's just
me but if you were to say to me Steve I have say 2014 Dodge Ram can I put this Universal coolant
in and I would say I have no idea why did you want to experiment for 17 bucks do you want
to experiment or you want to go to the Chrysler dealership by yourself the Chrysler cool it and
not guess and not experiment so that's the whole idea behind this video today is I do not know
anything about coolants most people watching this video don't know anything about coolants you hear
a whole bunch of stuff and opinions on YouTube and throughout the media you've got people on
TV advertising do this do that do whatever all I'm saying is for me if you look at it logically
like an engineer would and say what's the downside what's the liabilities and for me the difference
is about between this one and this one about six dollars is that worth six dollars for me
to take an educated guess and say you know what it's alright I mean I got away with this with my
2002 2500 HD and I never had a problem maybe I should start throwing it my Ford and I'm going
you know what don't push your luck pal because you never know sometimes six dollars to come
back cost you $600 how many times have you heard people are watched a video got a plugged up heater
core or plugged up rad and is it because they're not using distilled water I don't know but to me
I like to take the risk out of something so for me using distilled water is less risk I have the
original rad and my 2002 Silverado I changed my coolant once a year all I do is open up the drain
on the rad I let it drain out turn it off go to my overflow bottle I throw in roughly almost four
liters of pre-mixed coolant put the cap on and I'm done takes me 10 minutes I have the original rad
I have the original heater car and you know what so far logic is actually saving me money I know
lots of people that have the exact same vehicle I have they've gone through heater course they've
gone through rads and a lot of expense by not servicing your system now maintenance a lot of
times people think maintenance is when something breaks down they go to their shop and guess what
they get it maintained right because it's broke coolants you know what from the factory they say
five years most is 160 thousand kilometers or a hundred thousand miles and as soon as I buy a new
vehicle I go two years then I start changing the coolant I'm only doing it in the rad I'm
not doing the flush and everything else but if you do that in the red in my mind in my opinion
every year it's adding to the additive package and it's actually you know circulating through
the system correctly and I've had great success doing that I have never put a rad in a vehicle
that I've owned and I've never put a heater car so far now I keep my vehicles usually around maybe
eight ten years this one here is the longest one I've kept so far and it's just doing fine and what
am I using Universal coolant and for me it was a little bit of a gamble because the controversy
over the Dexcool but my recommendation is you want to know what kind of coolant to put in your
vehicle look in the owner's manual and you're guaranteed to get the right coolant and don't
guess so thanks for joining me here today hope maybe you learned something out of this somehow
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