Distilled H2O

Dec 30, 2011 9 Replies

Hey there,



I've been car sitting my daughter's 99 legacy. Never had one these thingies so know nil about them. I popped the hood to snoop around and found the rad recovery tank had only 2" of fluid in there so I added some distilled water. Did I do a bad thing? Thanks



pw


If there is no chance ever of it freezing, no.

Asbjørn

Yeah, I lost a beautiful cat that way a few years ago. Still miss her. wrenden

their specially approved coolent junk

vw/audi is very touchy feely about stuff you pour in their hardware. the manual transaxle fluid is about $33 a liter.

I dunno how much their motor oil cost, i just have 5w40 synthetic poured in it.

I watched in amazement when a guy up in the hills by I-35 and I-9 crossing (gated community, who knows how many acres of land included) drained all the coolant from his bike right on the grass. My jaw dropped. I was under the assumption that if you have a multimillion dollar house with vista views you'd at least bother to shovel a catch pan underneath. i guess he does not keep cats. made me wonder what his sexual orientation was after the incident.

i guess i'd never understand the wealthy

I have no idea if a bike uses the propylene glycol or, maybe dexcool. And, i THINK, newer formulations og ethylene glycol put a 'bittering agent' in the stuff to help prevent ingestion. But, a lot of older cars may still have the toxic stuff in them, plus, a lot of jugs of the older stuff may still be in folks' garages. Even some of the additives in the propylene glycol might have serious side effects - dunno.

be safe out there!

That was a decade ago. dunno what was in it

What was that sexual orientation comment all about? You one of those homophobes?

Basia

WTF? If you pollute, you're gay?

Guess the guy must have been really good looking, but why not say so outright, AD?

You already told us he's rich, has a multimillion dollar house with vista views, lives in a gated community, rides a bike, and owns acrage.

Where did you meet him?

Up in the hills? Oh, my, my... AD, you've got to be careful :))

Basia

If you trust the gay remedial messages from media those guys are like perfect.

Don't you worry. I'm too busy with the women. I only have 2 but that keeps me plenty busy.

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