19 hours ago, iantt said:

In 38 yrs I've never changed coolant on any of my cars except for my current focus ecoboost, and only did it when I changed my degas hoses recently with fords own coolant I happen to have in my garage

lol that garage of yours.......😁  a never ending stream of free parts.....!

 

4 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

I'm another one for only changing coolant when the waterpump is changed.  It's such a pain to dispose of it's really not worth doing it unnecessarily.

Also depends how long you expect the car to last as to which one to choose...20 years is unlikely for a modern car, so when I changed the cambelt kit on the Mk2 (10 years) I went for some non-Ford 5 year pink stuff personally...I seriously doubt it'll even still be on the road by then lol.

 

It's surprising.  I've been on the government tax check website and looked up some of my past cars....many are still on the road, the outstanding one being a fiat punto which I sold as 'scrap', missing bits and broken dash in 2013 with 128k on the clock..the flipin things still on the road. Think the garage had me with their 'only scrap' line and £300 part ex lol

15 hours ago, Albert27 said:

It's surprising.  I've been on the government tax check website and looked up some of my past cars....many are still on the road, the outstanding one being a fiat punto which I sold as 'scrap', missing bits and broken dash in 2013 with 128k on the clock..the flipin things still on the road. Think the garage had me with their 'only scrap' line and £300 part ex lol

Yeah, that's a well known dealer line I'm afraid...'we can only give you scrap value for a car in that state'... I've never part ex'd a car myself but my Dad used to frequently, he'd only ever get £100 max as 'scrap' and we'd see them up for sale at £500 or so a week later lol.

There aren't many of my (30 odd!) old cars still on the road, some I broke up for spares so they technically live on, but even the Fiesta ST and 306 GTi6 I sold back in 2016 are already off the grid...  The Mk2.5 Focus is coming up for MOT this week so I keep checking to see if that's passed or not lol.  

I think the most surprising one of mine that is still on the road is a diesel Vectra I sold back in 2014...it was 6 years old, top spec, top desirable diesel engine, full service history and had covered 106k miles...  I tried to PX it against a crappy Toyota Aygo at the main dealer and was told it was only worth £1400 after the dealer had wasted half an hour of my time. 😮  Needless to say I wasn't pleased and didn't go back to that dealer! Anyway, a week later I sold the car for £3000 to be used as a Taxi...and I still regularly pass it on the road now!  It failed MOT last year on brake efficiency and a leaking brake pipe (not sure how the driver failed to notice that tbf) so will be interesting to see whether it passes this year or whether it is now beyond economical repair.

The other one that is interesting is a Fabia that my Mum owned, because it was a low spec model and a cheap car, it was already beyond economical repair at 5.5 years old so was PX'd against something else in 2012...  I still pass that on the road as well, must have just been bodged up by the garage as the repair would have cost a grand at the time!

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

I think the most surprising one of mine that is still on the road is a diesel Vectra I sold back in 2014...it was 6 years old, top spec, top desirable diesel engine, full service history and had covered 106k miles... 

Come on now! There's nothing desirable about a vauxhall  

On 1/24/2019 at 1:07 PM, dezwez said:

think I might get some of this thanks 😊

Just bought 5 litres myself (just incase-better to have it and at that price it’s not robbing the bank)

Forum's gone coolant mad  

Member are perchasing so they can be cool, stay cool, look cool, and keep the cool at home...... 😂