I hate stupid people!

[camaro_speedemon]

Got a chance to look under the hood of the GTP yesterday.

So the wife opens up the coolant resevior and what does she find, brown sludge.

Some stupid idiot mixed watern with dexcool. It says on the damn cap, dexcool ONLY. I'm half tempted to take it back to the dealership and say wtf is this ****.

I now need to take it to a radiator shop and have it flushed.

[4thgenowner]

You would be suprised how many stupid people are training to be pilots. I wouldn't trust my life with alot of these new kids at school.

[Zach94]

i hate stupid people too...

[3.4 slow to go]

let the dealershipo deal w/it. it still under warranty?

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go:
let the dealershipo deal w/it. it still under warranty?

yes. We got it from a non-dealership lot. bought it as is but its under warranty and we're gonna take it in tuesday.

[shenanigans]

doh...

btw dexcool is gay. Damn sludge on an '04, luckily I didn't have any sludge in my 2k.

[shock_core]

i thought u could mix dex and water... just not dex and green...

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by shock_core:
i thought u could mix dex and water... just not dex and green...

Yea, thats what I ment.

[ September 05, 2005, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: camaro_speedemon ]

[Loochy88]

im confused... youre saying since you saw brown sludge someone must have put the green stuff in there? dexcool, at least before i changed mine last time, builds up a ton of the brown crap without ever touching it with the green stuff.

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by Loochy88:
im confused... youre saying since you saw brown sludge someone must have put the green stuff in there? dexcool, at least before i changed mine last time, builds up a ton of the brown crap without ever touching it with the green stuff.

Hmm... Our matrix which has dexcool and has a few thousand more miles then the GTP and it's still the same color as when we bought it.

I know that mixing green and dexcool does cause a brown sludge.

[ September 06, 2005, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: camaro_speedemon ]

[Loochy88]

well ive changed it myself the last few times. maybe the person who had it before me mixed the stuff up and thats still causing it. ive flushed it pretty well though.

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by Loochy88:
well ive changed it myself the last few times. maybe the person who had it before me mixed the stuff up and thats still causing it. ive flushed it pretty well though.

A shop needs to do it to get all of it out. I foolishly mixed them in my old camaro because I didn't know any better and suffered the same problem.

There's a chance even having it done at a shop won't get all of it out.

[speedracer95v6]

Gross. Before the vette went, I changed out the coolant. It was some nasty stuff after 59k miles (and 11 years).

Crappy that an 04 would be like that.

[kristen]

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[L32Projekt]

It was explained to me that a brown sludge could also form from the supplement tablets the dealerships put in with fresh Dexcool. I flushed my radiator with two-part prestone acid/neutralizer heavy duty flush and refilled with Dex just for peace of mind. If you have a house, I'd recommend making a day of doing it yourself this way. Cost me around $8 for the coolant, $.69 for the distilled water, $6.25 for the flush and less than $4 for the prestone flushing kit which lets you backflush the system. Better than $80 for the same process (minus the HD flush).

Just be prepared to spend the better part of the day doing it, and don't do it at night like I did (D'oh!). ;)