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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: phonesurgeon on 03 December 2014, 03:47:46 pm

Title: Antifreeze
Post by: phonesurgeon on 03 December 2014, 03:47:46 pm

So this morning, in my neck of woods, it was -1C and a thin layer of frost.
My Fazer (`98) is at moment grounded with radiator problem.
So ordered a replacement one...

After all that rambling what I wanna know is... Coolant... The usual blue one mixed with antifreeze or the pink stuff already mixed?

Cheers guys.

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: fazersharp on 03 December 2014, 06:23:29 pm

All you need to know you will find here http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,10671.0.html (http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,10671.0.html)

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: darrsi on 03 December 2014, 06:29:31 pm

Personally, I've always been happy with the yellow one.  :D


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motul-Motocool-Expert-Motorcycle-Bike-Engine-Coolant-Ready-to-Use-1L-1-Litre-/261590097122?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item3ce7fc1ce2 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motul-Motocool-Expert-Motorcycle-Bike-Engine-Coolant-Ready-to-Use-1L-1-Litre-/261590097122?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item3ce7fc1ce2)

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: phonesurgeon on 03 December 2014, 07:23:23 pm

So the pink one it is then.... strangely enough i was going to halfords to get some for the car...
 
Thanks guys!

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: Arfa on 04 December 2014, 08:51:31 pm

Just take care where you leave your coolant and dispose of the waste. My mum has just lost her cat from anti-freeze poisoning. Reckon one of her neighbours must have topped up or something for winter and left some about. Poor thing went down pretty bad in couple of days, went blind and finally into renal failure. :(

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: phonesurgeon on 05 December 2014, 11:35:44 pm

I will do, I have animals at home myself... Although its not just animal... Antifreeze kills humans as well... I seem to remember a curry fully loaded with it, in the news few years back...

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: darrsi on 06 December 2014, 08:06:00 am

Yes, remember not to add coolant to your curries as well, it kinda defeats the object if you like them hot & spicy.  :evil

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: fatbloke62 on 06 December 2014, 03:40:46 pm

I've seen the damage antifreeze causes when ingested , I was on the jury to that antifreeze in the curry case . she put that guy through hell and he was very lucky to survive, I believe his brother has since give him one of his kidneys so he's not on dialysis anymore  and along with the hearing implants he had put in he has regained some quality of life

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: Jules-C on 06 December 2014, 04:53:21 pm

Propylene glycol antifreeze is available which is nontoxic, it is an approved food additive. But it's not quite as good an antifreeze or heat transfer agent as ethylene glycol so not widely used

Title: Re: Antifreeze
Post by: phonesurgeon on 07 December 2014, 01:30:43 pm

Darrsi I like my curry mild... Antifreeze free....