russianDude

I picked up antifreeze/coolant from my Acura dealer. And guess what it says now:
"Acura anti-freeze long life" (60K/5yr). Type 2 (supposed to be blue).

Now, I used to get Honda anti-freeze/coolant. The back of the bottle said "specially forumalated for Acura and Honda vehicles". also 60K/5yr.

Did they just change a label and sell the same stuff ?

Slees

they are trying to be like toyota. toyota has red antifreeze. you can mix it with green antifreeze.

russianDude

you sure about mixing two together?

Its not only the color, the container says now "Long Life Acura anti-freeze". Before the same dealer used to sell container that said "Long Life Honda Anti-freeze" . I belive honda dealer still sells the same stuff.
Acura/Honda, should be the same fluid... seems like a marketing pitch, in reality the same stuff... both are type 2.

Acura_mm

type 2 anti-freeze is for the newer hondas/acuras and can be mixed with type one in are CL's now (i work for honda in the parts dept) also honda and the acura fluids are the same just diferent labels for each dealer

russianDude

yeah, both of them are type 2. Its just funny that they use different labels.

spazzz2002

Be careful...

The car I had before the Acura used Dexcool (GM), It was a bright orange colour. I mixed it with the green stuff one time when my car was over-heating. It made this nasty brown colour.
I had to get the radiator flushed...

The Spazzz

RaviNJCLs

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You got it flushed because of the color, or because it did something else?

phipark

I have the type 2 stuff and it's green.

spazzz2002

I also had to have some other major repairs so I just went ahead and did the flush.

Slees

thats becuase you can't mix Dexcool and green antifreeze. they are two different bases.

JD TL-S

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I need to add anti freeze to my 07 Acura TL after doing the
Timing belt. Tomorrow is Sunday and Honda/Acura is closed.
What other brands are safe ?

TheWeez

Any standard anti-freeze is fine. Honda/Acura don't require anything special like many GMs do. All anti-freeze should say it's fine for 60k miles. Mileage isn't really the worry. For those that put lesser than normal mileage on their car, they'll want to flush it every couple years. Time is what will eat away at those parts, not mileage.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

because our block is aluminium, the only requirement is to be Silicate and phosphate free.

acrdr

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

^obviously, the coolant was not silicate and phosphate free.

acrdr

At least that how it looks on the inside .

YeuEmMaiMai

Acura dealer told me that the blue stuff is no different than the green stuff and can be mixed together Honda sells their premixed stuff for $20... I can buy the normal green stuff non mixed for less than half of that...