They back flushed the heater core and the whole system and changed it to green. He took it to a garage and they told him it was typical Dexcool. We went out to look at it and I felt the 2 hoses going to the heater core. I remember helping a coworker on his ZR2 GMC. Several local mechanics advised them to do a full flush and convert to the regular glycol antifreeze. Friends of mine had clogged heater cores, junked intake gaskets, etc from the stuff. Many a GM product has had issues from the stuff. Cost is not a big deal, but I don't exactly have a local Ford dealer. I can get it for about $14 at my local walmart. ![]() If this meets the same standard listed in the manual, I see no issue in using it. Prestone/50/50 Dex-Cool antifreeze specs (scroll down to standards) I couldn't find the specs listed on prestones site, but here they are on autozones site: It's the exact same spec listed on Prestone's Dexcool 50/50 that I can get cheap at my local walmart. The bottle says to only fill with Ford-Specialty orange coolant, however they also want $27 a bottle for the pre-mix at a Ford dealer that isn't even convient to get to. I noticed my coolant was a little low (about half-inch from bottom of cold fill). Question: So in prep for the arctic blast that we're getting up here, I've been checking a couple things over on the truck. I installed a Borla S-type cat-back system last year but I don't think I did a review (loving it). Had to have the rotors turned under warranty 5k miles ago for vibration under braking, but otherwise everything has been in good shape (knock on wood). ![]() Has 20k miles on it now as I've been commuting more with the new job. ![]() Hope that everyone is doing well and had a nice holiday/new years!
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