BMW Blue Coolant

[Zackb911]

I just flushed mine today $20 for 1 gallon of BMW coolant and $3 for 2 gallons of distilled water... Knowing it was done right and the green stuff is all gone? PRICELESS Luckily I live 4 miles from the bmw dealer

[632 Regal]

good job, now you can sleep without doubts about headgasket failures etc etc

I just flushed mine today $20 for 1 gallon of BMW coolant and $3 for 2 gallons of distilled water... Knowing it was done right and the green stuff is all gone? PRICELESS Luckily I live 4 miles from the bmw dealer

[Chris'91'525i]

For any members here in the Sacramento,CA area.
A&S BMW motorcycle dealer has BMW blue coolant for $17 a gallon.

[Paul in NZ]

My wife picked up 4 gallons of the G-05 last winter at Autozone for $8-$9 each so thats quite a savings over $18 a gallon +shipping. Combined our cars only rack up 20k a year tops so I'm set for many years to come. If I get bored with the Zerex I'll buy some blue food dye.

wrong..its not the miles its the time,coolant should be changed every two years max
Dont worry get a low silicate one and change it regularly...And if you do worry get bmw blue.Let that be the end of it!

[Ross]

It turns out G-48 is made of unobtanium. A thorough search of all the area parts house netted ZIP.
A call to the good folks at Valvoline/Zerex reveals that G-48 is an exclusive deal with the manufactures on a private label basis only.
Use G-05 they say and tell me they will stand behind it. Low silicates phophate etc. virtually same as they claim.
The fellow ther says he will send me some info on it which I will forward on .

[632 Regal]

I smoke that stuff

unobtanium

[shogun]

wrong..its not the miles its the time,coolant should be changed every two years max

That's the point, read this

http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/277800

[BMWCCA1]

I've heard the same stuff is available under the M-B label for less bucks, but I don't know. I use various brands of DexCool equivalent from WalMart and have done so since about 1998 when we had to repair a Ferrari intake manifold leak caused by corrosive coolant (yeah, they run coolant through the intake). Intensive study by an anal tech and contact with several manufacturers assured us that any DexCool equivalent if changed at the regular intervals (two-years, not seven) would protect as well as the BMW stuff, Internet histrionics not withstanding. I've not had a coolant related failure in any of my BMWs since then, of course YMMV.

[BillionPa]

the SAAB stuff is EXACTLY the same as the BMW stuff, i checked the CAS numbers and componenet levels, and even checked the bottles side by side for wording. the legal mumbo jumbo is word for word identical, and the caps are even the same.