Aftermarket Coolant vs. Kubota

TheOldHokie said:

Every jug of coolant in my shop says ELC or LLC ethylene glycol on the label. You will be hard pressed to find anything else in an auto supply store.

Dan

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GeoHorn said:

That’s nice, Dan, that the jugs in Your Shop are identified. Unfortunately, as of last month when I was shopping for the correct fluid for an elderly woman in our church…. who discovered her Chevy Traverse ran “hot” a couple weeks ago…she stopped at a convenience store and some other man an and the clerk decided upon what type she needed, and sold her some Peak ”pink” coolant and poured it into her reservoir.
I help her every month to fill her car with gas and wash it and fill the WW-fluid, check her tires etc ….(her Navy veteran husband (E2-Diesel) suddenly died last Feb and he always did these things fo her…. she never even bought gas for herself…. so I do this every month for her…. Anyway….She called me to check on it for her the day after it got hot….….
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SO…I went over there…found the half-full jug of Pink PEAK coolant…. and threw it in the trash because her Chevy REQUIRES DEX-COOL….. (happens to be orange)….

.I WENT TO WALMART…and NONE of the many different brands of coolant described the TYPE… None of them even Mentioned “Ehylene Glycol”…. Prestone had 4 different COLORS which promised to be for “Asian” or “European” or “Universal”…. etc..
PEAK ALSO had several different COLORS which Claim compatibility, ets etc

SuperTech had TWO types: A concentrate and a diluted…but neither identified as OAT or HOAT…

But NO ONE identified as Ehylene Glycol. NONE of them.

I finally managed to find Dex-Cool at AutoZone and flushed and re-filled her system.

SO, Dan…. what YOU have at YOUR shop …is not helpful to folks out on the street reading jugs of stuff presently on shelves that DON’T IDENTIFY themselves.

grrrrr….

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GeoHorn said:

That’s nice, Dan, that the jugs in Your Shop are identified. Unfortunately, as of last month when I was shopping for the correct fluid for an elderly woman in our church…. who discovered her Chevy Traverse ran “hot” a couple weeks ago…she stopped at a convenience store and some other man an and the clerk decided upon what type she needed, and sold her some Peak ”pink” coolant and poured it into her reservoir.
I help her every month to fill her car with gas and wash it and fill the WW-fluid, check her tires etc ….(her Navy veteran husband (E2-Diesel) suddenly died last Feb and he always did these things fo her…. she never even bought gas for herself…. so I do this every month for her…. Anyway….She called me to check on it for her the day after it got hot….….
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SO…I went over there…found the half-full jug of Pink PEAK coolant…. and threw it in the trash because her Chevy REQUIRES DEX-COOL….. (happens to be orange)….

.I WENT TO WALMART…and NONE of the many different brands of coolant described the TYPE… None of them even Mentioned “Ehylene Glycol”…. Prestone had 4 different COLORS which promised to be for “Asian” or “European” or “Universal”…. etc..
PEAK ALSO had several different COLORS which Claim compatibility, ets etc

SuperTech had TWO types: A concentrate and a diluted…but neither identified as OAT or HOAT…

But NO ONE identified as Ehylene Glycol. NONE of them.

I finally managed to find Dex-Cool at AutoZone and flushed and re-filled her system.

SO, Dan…. what YOU have at YOUR shop …is not helpful to folks out on the street reading jugs of stuff presently on shelves that DON’T IDENTIFY themselves.

grrrrr….

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Trash Panda said:

This super tech? That prints “ethylene glycol” right on the back label?

That is odd they didn’t have any dex though, I’ve been buying my dex cool from Wally World almost exclusively since I had my 96 half ton.

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TheOldHokie said:

Its the weather. I was just in Advance three days ago and was going to pick up some Dex but they were sold out. Everything was in low supply or sold out except for the IAT crap that was fully stocked and collecting dust on the top right corner.

Dan

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Trash Panda said:

This super tech? That prints “ethylene glycol” right on the back label?

That is odd they didn’t have any dex though, I’ve been buying my dex cool from Wally World almost exclusively since I had my 96 half ton.

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GeoHorn said:

Panda… RE-read my post in which I mentioned SuperTech…I did not say it failed to mention Ethylene Glycol. … What I wrote was, It failed to identify as OAT or HOAT.

PS: I like most Supertech products.

Dan: I don‘t need schooling. I know E-G is the most common basic-ingredient…but there are differences that exist …and many of the products FAIL to mention or identify their differences.

That means …even if a knowledgeable buyer were seeking a particular product…. he will be unnecessarily challenged to find which product is which because the industry has gotten so secretive about labels.

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GeoHorn said:

Panda… RE-read my post in which I mentioned SuperTech…I did not say it failed to mention Ethylene Glycol. … What I wrote was, It failed to identify as OAT or HOAT.

PS: I like most Supertech products.

Dan: I don‘t need schooling. I know E-G is the most common basic-ingredient…but there are differences that exist …and many of the products FAIL to mention or identify their differences.

That means …even if a knowledgeable buyer were seeking a particular product…. he will be unnecessarily challenged to find which product is which because the industry has gotten so secretive about labels.

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Trash Panda said:

“NO ONE identified as ethylene glycol” was also claimed directly after the statement that OAT/HOAT formulation wasn’t mentioned.

Either way, it’s not important. Carry on being exceedingly angry and using lots of capital letters. It’ll be alright

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GeoHorn said:

....I maintain my irritation over the failure of coolants to clearly identify as OAT or HOAT.

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hagrid said:

So, which color coolant is the bestest?

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