I just got a VW Golf (89) with green coolant in it, which is pretty low so I want to top it up. My bottle of antifreeze is blue (Halfords type). Am I right thinking that these ARE mixable - just to top up to keep me going for a week or so until I can get to drain and replace it?
Cheers C
I *think* that you'll be ok with blue and green - AFAIK it's just the luminous "toxic waste special orange/pink" colour that you don't want to be mixing with darker (green/blue) type colours.
But I'd ask someone who actually knows, instead of trusting my word.
That's what I thought.....
I would have thought plain water would be OK for a week, unless you're in tundra country.
As long as they are the same type of coolant then you are fine.
Do'nt mix something like Glysatin and glycol though - odd things like gelled antifreeze are possible as my father can attest with a bunged up Jaguar.
Not sure what VW spec coolant should be. I know the Skoda stuff is bright pink and rebadged VW coolant.
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