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Nate Nagel

Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:26:02 -0500, wrote:

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote:

The car is three years old so I may do the antifreeze, but then again, I may
not. I've often gone five+ years with the newer stuff, unlike the 50's and
60's.
This is something I struggle with too...whether or not
it is even necessary to change antifreeze every year!

My GM manual says 5 yrs or 150k miles.

My son's Audi says *don't* change it.

Jim

I'm not normally the kind of guy that makes blanket statements telling
people to disregard the manual... but when a manual tells you that a
fluid never needs to be changed, it's wrong.

That said, 5 years on a closed system with modern OAT antifreeze is
probably OK.

nate

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