[MBZ] Coolant Question

[Gary Hurst]

the problem, okey, is that odds are the white stuff cars were just plain
better taken care of overall.  to my knowledge, there is no test of white
stuff vs green stuff telling us which to use in our older cars.

i use the white stuff, but it is VERY convenient for me to do so


On 4/28/06, OK Don <okdonn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No hard info here, but of the six Mercedes's that I've owned, all
> those (3) that had the green stuff when I bought them had over heating
> problems, and none of those (3) that had the white stuff had any
> cooling problems at all. Of those with the green stuff, one was a '76
> 300D and another is the '81 240D - so yes, it is bad in the mostly
> iron engines as well.
>
> It used to be that the decreased frequency of changing the anti-freeze
> offset the increased cost almost exactly. I don't konw what the
> current prices are so - you get to figure that out.
>
> Snook - yes, that means that the 300D is heating up at over 90F
> outside with the air on --
>
>
>
> --
> OK Don, KD5NRO
> Norman, OK
> "The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've
> exhausted all the alternatives."
> Sir Winston Churchill
> '90 300D 243K, Rattled
> '87 300SDL 290K, Limo Lite, or blue car
> '81 240D 173K, Gramps, or yellow car
> '78 450SLC 67K, brown car
> '97 Ply Grand Voyager 78K Van Go
>
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