data.3news-bydate.test.rec.motorcycles.104402 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Don Fearn)
Subject: Re: Antifreeze/coolant
Reply-To: [email protected]
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Chris BeHanna) writes:
|> For those of you with motorcycles of the liquid-cooled persuasion,
|> what brand of coolant do you use and why? I am looking for aluminum-safe
|> coolant, preferably phosphate-free, and preferably cheaper than $13/gallon.
|> (Can you believe it: the Kaw dealer wants $4.95 a QUART for the Official
|> Blessed Holy Kawasaki Coolant!!! No way I'm paying that usury...)
|>
Prestone. I buy it at ShopKo for less
than that a _gallon_. BMW has even more
expensive stuff than Kawasaki (must be
from grapes only grown in certain parts of
the fatherland), but BMW Dave* said "Don't
worry about it -- just change it yearly and
keep it topped off". It's been keeping
Gretchen happy since '87, so I guess it's OK.
Kept my Rabbit's aluminum radiator hoppy for
12 years and 130,000 miles, too, so I guess
it's aluminum safe.
*Former owner of the late lamented Rochester
BMW Motorcycles and all around good guy.
--
Pooder - Rochester, MN - DoD #591
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