Arominus

So i did the TB/WP in my girlfriends passat recently and it used G12, read about it and it seems cool. Is there any real advantage to this stuff? did our cars come with a variant of it originally? My car currently has prestone in it, but i had an oil cooler blow out a while back so it does need to be flushed again.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Any of you running it?

rgs944

I think GM Orange is a good choice for a 944, anything designed for aluminum is probably good.

running_cold924

thats what i'm going to use, i just flushed mine like 3 times to get the gummy green stuff out. I like pink stuff though......HUGE fan, lol

jtsporsche

i use the GM orange, had no problems, but i wanna find some coolant thats more of a blood red color, with a new coolant tank i think it would look pretty...

Erzengal

Why not just use the regular Porsche Pink coolant? Works as designed, and you don't have to worry about it eating anything important.
If you change to anything else, flush really well, as some coolant, like the new Audi coolant doesn't mix well with others.

Luis de Prat

Ditto. Pentosin FTW.

GTSilver944

I'm using GL12. No complaints. Good on Al and I think it has a fluorescent dye to trace leaks too.

Arominus

The porsche coolant is the same as Audis/VW, they are both OAT based fluids and are compatible. The current stuff g12+ (purple) is compatible too. The big diff is the price.

I'm going for it, picked up some pentosin and its flushing time!

gtroth

Blue stuff for me (in the white car, not the red car ;-).

VW Pentosin G001100, 50/50 with distilled water. Couldn't find it last time so I used the replacement:
VW ZVW-237-10.

Can also get it at Audi.

944Ross

Is G12 a refinement of G05? Sounds like it (OAT). I've been using Prestone G05 with no issues in all aluminum or hybrid (iron/alum) engines, only a buck more than ethylene glycol or DexCool.

Matt O.

I don't remember who, but over the years I have heard from more than one person to stay away from orange coolant in the 944.

running_cold924

factory toyota anitfreeze is a nice dark red

944CS

the correct VW/Audi coolant is not the pink stuff it is the blue stuff

schwank

Actually if I remember those G11 & G12 VW coolants have been superseeded now by the G12+ which is supposed to work for all the cars.

V2Rocket

prestone orange juice...