What coolant for 04 Camry I4

Use Antifreeze and distilled water, usualy a 50/50 mix. Be sure to buy distilled water. Of course you can buy the special toyota coolant, its high price is justified that they have monks make it from 50000 yr old iceburg water on mt fujiama and its blessed by the pope.

Oh, dear.

Toyota AF is PINK! I don't think you should (nor SHOULD you) mix it with anything else.

They do sell 'pink' AF in the stores and say it can be used to replace Toyota AF, but on a car THIS new, I think I'd pony up for the Real Deal. Perhaps after the car has a couple hundred thou on it I would think of using something more 'generic'...

Now, I'm not one for going to the Dealer every time i need a part, but there ARE some things I will only buy from Toyota for a car under 200,000 miles, one being 'Tune-Up' parts (I will NEVER use ANYTHING but Toyota plug wires ever again!) and I think I would do this for the AF, too...

Use the special red yota coolant - has long life and is safe for aluminium engines. Its not recommended that you mix the green/yellow with the red.

Use a coolant that does not have silcates or borates. The link below has a good article on coolants.

Toyota Coolant is fine but you still have to use distilled water. NEVER use tap water in radiator. Since you flushed the radiator, make sure you get rid of the air (bleed) in the engine cooling system.

Toyta has begun phasing in the new PINK coolant in place of the older RED coolant. The new pink coolant is premixed with distilled water and should not be diluted further. But I'd only use distilled water with ANY coolant.

Do not use the traditional green silicated coolant in these cars. Asian import pumps use rubber o-ring seals and not carbide seals in domestic cars. Silicated coolant will wear out the rubber seals in a short period time.

The pink coolant is meant for longer service life. But industry tests have shown cooling systems exhibited high metal weight loss (corrosion) using Toyota Pink. This is because toyota used only half of Dexcool's two major components of sebacate and not the 2-ethylhexanoic acid. Sebacate doesn't become effective with any newly installed components (like a radiator or pump) until several thousand miles later. 2EHA is fast acting, but it is a plasticizer that can cause problems with some gasket materials.

So pick up some of the older red coolant (and distilled water) if you can still find it.

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