Orange/Pink Coolant

[chrisJDM]

Thought i would do a coolant change on my car and went to halfords and bought there best stuff, drained the system and put the new one in, the new coolant was a pinky orangery colour, i thought i heard a while back on here to only use green or blue coolant, will it be ok with the pink stuff??

[kev-yorks]

Thought i would do a coolant change on my car and went to halfords and bought there best stuff, drained the system and put the new one in, the new coolant was a pinky orangery colour, i thought i heard a while back on here to only use green or blue coolant, will it be ok with the pink stuff??

You want to be using the glycol based antifreeze (blue/green) if poss the pink stuff does work but becomes acidic as it breaks down so don\'t keep it in too long.
Kevin

[chrisJDM]

ok i will try and change it soonish then, what makes do you recommend??  I could only see pink stuff in my local halfords, but its only a small one.

[asp]

i think the pink halfords stuff is a 5 year antifreeze,so no need to change it any time soon

[Jovic82]

im sure they do a blue one which is def glycol based stuff