Coolant Question?
 

Hi, can I use Toyota's coolants on my honda accord, cause my cousin work at Toyota dealer bring home free coolants.
Thank you

RE: Coolant Question?
 

as long as it isn't based off of that dexcool stuff and meets honda's specs, I don't see why not

RE: Coolant Question?
 

Thank you,
Can you list honda's spec, i've used prestone extended life.

RE: Coolant Question?
 

if it's green in color and your car coolant is green in color it will most likely work

RE: Coolant Question?
 

you can use anything but the red extended life/dexcool coolant. if its green or yellow you're good.

RE: Coolant Question?
 

Thank you guy, I just checked and it red so I'll leave it alone.

btw, the coolant in the car is green.

RE: Coolant Question?
 

no prob...your best bet is just to use either prestone or Zerex, and you'll be runnin good

RE: Coolant Question?
 

make sure to have a 50/50 mix of coolant and water

RE: Coolant Question?
 

Deserthonda, can you give me a brief instruction how to completly flush out not all but most of the old coolant out. I searched and found one for 1998 but I have 95 accord.

Thank you.

RE: Coolant Question?
 

drain the radiator by removing the drain plug, to drain the block on the back of the engine left side of oil filter , there is a drain plug , i believe 17mm head, remove it, get a water hose, put it in the radiator and run the water till it comes out clean from the block drain hole, remove the rad drain plug again to drain the radiator, reinstall plugs, open up the bleeder screw 12 mm nipple on the t-stat housing , have a 50/50 mix of colant and water and fill the radiator , till only coolant and no air comes out of the bleeder screw , tighten screw ,,start car up and let it run a bit without rad cap on , top off coolant if need to, install rad cap. Also make sure to empty reservoir and install new coolant there as well..

RE: Coolant Question?
 

so only prestone and zerex 50/50 are good, what about peak brand?

RE: Coolant Question?
 

any brand will do .....

RE: Coolant Question?
 

yeah thats wa justmy personal recommendation, I use either prestone or zerex because peak isnt readily available in my area.

RE: Coolant Question?
 

You can get all those brands includeing Peak too at your Local AutoZone Parts store..

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RE: Coolant Question?
 

I just changed mine and i put some prestone rust and scale cleaner through the system before i flushed the coolant. I'm not sure if the stuff works but it wasn't very expensive so i tried it.
http://www.prestone.com/products/coo...Treatments.php

RE: Coolant Question?
 

I am new to this forum (1 month) and I just replaced the Tbelt and water pump and need to refill with coolant. My other car a 95 Acura Legend is very sensitive to the type of coolant used. Factory silicate and borate free coolant only is recomended to be used in the Legend. If the Prestone is used in this car the results could be a blown head gasket or bad water pump. There is a lot of debate on the subject on the Acura-Legend.com site. I am pleased to see that these problems do not exist with the Accord and I can save about $16 or more buying the extended life Prestone. I assume that this is different from Dexcool which is red. These days one cannot determine the type of coolant by color alone. The Toyota factory coolant is an excellent coolant and is not the same as Dexcool.