antifreeze instead of water

[volgapower]

its gettin cold here in Tbilisi, and my cooling system works on water, i heared that if i put there antifreeze liqiud there will be leaks in whole system... what should i do?

[ZinRot325i]

How about...and I could be WAAAY out of line here....
MIXING the anti-freeze and water...in a 50/50 ratio!
BRILLIANT!

All hail my innovative-ness!

It shouldn't leak. I think Anti-freeze is thicker than water anyway?

[porsche gt1]

2 times on that. Someone is giving you bad info. You should be running a 50/50 mixture at all times in your car.

How is it in Tbilisi? never been to that part of europe.

[MikeE30325i]

yeah 50/50 is pretty normal...

[Jand3rson]

I buy the stuff that's already 50/50. :D

[NC325iC]

screw you all and your 50 50,
i would say im running whatever was left in that one bottle +however much water it took to fill it up+ water wetter
booyah
oh btw 1/4 temp on the guage all the time, only aux fan on low.
pwnified

[Jand3rson]

screw you all and your 50 50,
i would say im running whatever was left in that one bottle +however much water it took to fill it up+ water wetter
booyah
oh btw 1/4 temp on the guage all the time, only aux fan on low.
pwnified

I have to be doing about 90 for AT LEAST a good 4-5 mintues before my temp gauge even gets close to the halfway mark, and it still never gets there.

Less than 2 year old radiatior FTW.

[e304me]

thats stupid, the temp should be lower with more air moving over the rad. also i dont know why the hell you wouldnt want ur temp to be in the middle

[MikeE30325i]

shit my car gets near the 1/2 way mark after 20 minutes of WOT in my neighborhood. the neighbors hate me. 9 at night i get in it start it up and fly through my neighborhood. would go faster but these damn speed bumps are huge.....

[MikeE30325i]

thats stupid, the temp should be lower with more air moving over the rad. also i dont know why the hell you wouldnt want ur temp to be in the middle

he was speaking with the high revs

high revs=more heat the engine makes.....after a certain point air doesnt really help.

[NC325iC]

17 year old radiator is gettin it done for me.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

thats stupid, the temp should be lower with more air moving over the rad. also i dont know why the hell you wouldnt want ur temp to be in the middle

The optimal temperature for the coolant is in fact the middle mark on the gauge for the needle. This is when your car is fully warmed up, and you shouldn't really be ripping it up until the car has at least hit this mark.

Of course when your car is moving, it may dip below the half point every once in a while.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

its gettin cold here in Tbilisi, and my cooling system works on water, i heared that if i put there antifreeze liqiud there will be leaks in whole system... what should i do?

Also, you are supposed to run a 50/50 mixture, preferably with BMW Original coolant, because the coolant is introduced to help lubricate the water pump's internals.

[AdamF 88iS]

Also, you are supposed to run a 50/50 mixture, preferably with BMW Original coolant, because the coolant is introduced to help lubricate the water pump's internals.

+100,000. This should have been the first thing said in this thead.

[Axxe]

he was speaking with the high revs

high revs=more heat the engine makes.....after a certain point air doesnt really help.

Wrong. High load heats up an engine, not high revs. At high RPMS the water pump spins really fast, and if you are driving fast, but at a constant speed (very low load), then the motor is getting cooled significantly.

I still don't know why most people brag that their car is around the first tick mark. That's not hot enough!! It needs to hover around the center mark to be at optimum temp.