Coolant Flush and refill

[borispeed]

When do you recomend to flush and refill? Now?. Hanes says every 5 years or 100,000 miles whichever comes first. The last time the shop did it for me was little more than 3 years ago. The mileage was around 75,000 miles.

[cam98aro]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

you dont specify what your mileage is now, but im assuming its between 100,000 and 120,000 miles, personally i would say its fine, i flushed mine out around 115,000 miles

[borispeed]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

you dont specify what your mileage is now, but im assuming its between 100,000 and 120,000 miles, personally i would say its fine, i flushed mine out around 115,000 miles

102,000 miles. When you say "its fine" is it means "go ahead and flush it", or "you don't have to until later". Thanks ahead for your help.

[cam98aro]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

personally i would wait

as long as the coolant looks good, you are fine, take your cap off and look at the color, it should be bright orange (assuming they put dexcool in it)

[borispeed]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

personally i would wait

as long as the coolant looks good, you are fine, take your cap off and look at the color, it should be bright orange (assuming they put dexcool in it)

Yes, it is orange dexcool. But the radiator cap and the neck when the cap is on is some muddy.

[kristen]

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flush it good and no more orange cr@p.

[RadRacer]

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I flushed mine and put in green stuff back at 92K Haven't regretted since :)

[Christopherrr]

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Flush that DexCrap out...go with the Green stuff.

After many failed attempts to keep DexCrap from sludging...even after 3 back flushes and even professional flushes, I said to hell with it and ran regular green-glycol coolant...no problems, but 30K flushes are needed.

[borispeed]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

I have read about the green coolant. I've looking at autostores and I haven't found.

[savagecamaro96]

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whats so bad about dex-cool?
i got some green stuff in mine now, but im gonna flush and refill it soon
a friend of mine at a chevy dealership said that dex-cool was fine

[borispeed]

Re: Coolant Flush and refill

whats so bad about dex-cool?
i got some green stuff in mine now, but im gonna flush and refill it soon
a friend of mine at a chevy dealership said that dex-cool was fine

I don't know, but I have read several threads and many people here preferred the green coolant.

[tmon930]

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everybody on here, practically, says dexcool is crap. i think that too. but my mechanic recommended that we put it back in. and mechanics that he knows recommend it as well. i'm gonna go ahead and put it back in.