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 Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 5:45 pm |
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What colour should the coolant be?
I googled PROCOR 3000 or REVKOGEL 107 however no results come under google shopping so what brand/make and where can I buy a small bottle of it?
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:04 am |
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Location: Doncaster
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Morning,
I found that Halfords sell some of the orange OAT stuff in concentrate and pre mixed.
Also, Peugeot themselves were quite competative - £13 for 2L concentrate.
Regards, Richard.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:47 am |
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Location: Birmingham
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| RichardEke wrote: |
Morning,
I found that Halfords sell some of the orange OAT stuff in concentrate and pre mixed.
Also, Peugeot themselves were quite competative - £13 for 2L concentrate.
Regards, Richard. |
I just need to top up so 2L is a bit too much. Is there anything smaller than 2L?
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:28 pm |
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Location: Doncaster
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| very_452001 wrote: |
| RichardEke wrote: |
Morning,
I found that Halfords sell some of the orange OAT stuff in concentrate and pre mixed.
Also, Peugeot themselves were quite competative - £13 for 2L concentrate.
Regards, Richard. |
I just need to top up so 2L is a bit too much. Is there anything smaller than 2L? |
They sold it by the litre, so you could just buy 1L.
Since it's the summer i'd just top up with water, it's a 3 - 4L cooling system 300ml is only 10% or so.
It would still make the coolant mix okay in my opinion. If it needs topping up often then i'd think about buying some pre mix stuff.
Regards, Richard.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:14 pm |
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Joined: Jan 29, 2011
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Location: Westhoughton, Lancashire
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| RichardEke wrote: |
| very_452001 wrote: |
| RichardEke wrote: |
Morning,
I found that Halfords sell some of the orange OAT stuff in concentrate and pre mixed.
Also, Peugeot themselves were quite competative - £13 for 2L concentrate.
Regards, Richard. |
I just need to top up so 2L is a bit too much. Is there anything smaller than 2L? |
They sold it by the litre, so you could just buy 1L.
Since it's the summer i'd just top up with water, it's a 3 - 4L cooling system 300ml is only 10% or so.
It would still make the coolant mix okay in my opinion. If it needs topping up often then i'd think about buying some pre mix stuff.
Regards, Richard. |
If it needs topping up often, I'd be thinking about finding the reason it's disappearing.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:12 am |
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Joined: Jun 18, 2012
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Location: Birmingham
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| RichardEke wrote: |
| very_452001 wrote: |
| RichardEke wrote: |
Morning,
I found that Halfords sell some of the orange OAT stuff in concentrate and pre mixed.
Also, Peugeot themselves were quite competative - £13 for 2L concentrate.
Regards, Richard. |
I just need to top up so 2L is a bit too much. Is there anything smaller than 2L? |
They sold it by the litre, so you could just buy 1L.
Since it's the summer i'd just top up with water, it's a 3 - 4L cooling system 300ml is only 10% or so.
It would still make the coolant mix okay in my opinion. If it needs topping up often then i'd think about buying some pre mix stuff.
Regards, Richard. |
yeah where can i buy a 1L of orange ready mixed antifreeze?
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:46 am |
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Is it okay to put pink/red antifreeze mixed with current orange antifreeze?
I checked the Halfords bottle and it has pink/red packaging. You sure this bottle is orange?
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:26 pm |
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anyone?
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:27 pm |
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Need's to be OAT based.
DON'T go by the colour!
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:38 pm |
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| MrBSI wrote: |
Need's to be OAT based.
DON'T go by the colour! |
I can see my existing coolant is orange like colour.
You saying I can use any OAT coolant regardless what colour it is whether its pink, purple, red, green, blue etc. and it be compatible with my car and wont cause any conflicts if I top it up with a different colour to the existing orange?
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:25 pm |
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Update:
I found a brand new bottle of this ready mixed coolant in the shed:
www.amazon.co.uk/Comma...eady+mixed
The liquid is pinkish.
Can anyone can confirm finally after 3 months of waiting for answers that there will be no problems when I top up my existing orange coolant with the above bottle?
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:32 am |
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It's oat, so yeah
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:17 am |
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Ok many thanks I shall top up my existing orange coolant with this pinkish coolant. I just though mixing different colour coolants is wrong hence I want to make sure.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:49 am |
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| very_452001 wrote: |
| Ok many thanks I shall top up my existing orange coolant with this pinkish coolant. I just though mixing different colour coolants is wrong hence I want to make sure. |
Colour is not a consistent indicator of type across the industry.
Orange from brand A might [or not] be compatible with orange from brand B.
And likewise, that coolant from two different brands have different colours does not necessarily mean they are incompatible.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:24 am |
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| mtempsch wrote: |
| very_452001 wrote: |
| Ok many thanks I shall top up my existing orange coolant with this pinkish coolant. I just though mixing different colour coolants is wrong hence I want to make sure. |
Colour is not a consistent indicator of type across the industry.
Orange from brand A might [or not] be compatible with orange from brand B.
And likewise, that coolant from two different brands have different colours does not necessarily mean they are incompatible. |
Ok many thanks for the clarification 
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