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RE: Prestone all-vehicle coolant
So that makes you a "hold me beer" type?
Really, I don't understand what you think is so avant-garde, daring, revolutionary, or rebellious about what you did. It's "ALL VEHICLE" coolant. They couldn't market and sell it as such if it didn't work with ALL coolants. Bottle doesn't say "All but Dexcool" it says "ALL," period.
Should say right on the jug in the fine print what it's compatible with. For sure for legal CYA purposes it would CLEARLY say what it's NOT compatible with. If it doesn't say "Not for use with Dexcool" on the jug, you use it, and it damages your engine, they owe you an engine and there is no court of law on in the United States that would rule otherwise.
Don't know what back country hillbilly Walmart you went into, but my back country hillbilly Walmart carried Dexcool and all the other "special" coolants as recently as last July.
In other words, you don’t have experience mixing it, correct?
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K3WE
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10/24/23 01:15pm |
Tow Vehicles
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Prestone all-vehicle coolant
I know this is going to be fun. The forum is full of book regurgitators, curious (sometimes scientific) rule benders AND "hold me beer, we gonna try somethin' folks...."
I had a leak and realized I was low on coolant...so I went off to Wally World to dutifully buy GM-approved coolant...
I looked hard, and all I saw (not even empty shelves) was "Prestone all-vehicle" and Wally's brand. I didn't see anything that said GM approved or Ford approved.
I can't remember when I last saw green stuff in a car- so I assumed, this would be pink stuff (and I'm not referring to RV winterizing antifreeze).
I open it (it's green) and pour it in....I KNOW that the GM folks are cringing.
I read the now-worthless internet and see lots of strong pontification that this is bad and other’s say "OK"...BUT BETTER YET, I GO TO PRESTONES WEBSITE AND WATCH A VIDEO TELLING ME IT'S OK TO MIX THE ALL-VEHICLE STUFF!
Also, to keep this interesting, I actually mixed stuff LONG ago...drove it a long while with no issues.
Looking forward to anyone with experience commenting. Not looking forward to it, but there will be rule regurtitators. ALWAYS fill the black tank and NO towing with a half ton and be sure to only use N2 in the tires...right?
:-)
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K3WE
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10/24/23 11:32am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Tampa, FL: Lazy question
Thanks for the responses. We don’t spend much time in snowbird country, and this was a harsh (but appreciated) reminder that our whole trip is probably a bad idea. Out of curiosity- are there RV storage lots that would be friendly to only 3 days of storage…anywhere in the US. I’m sure there’s a few, but I figure it’s a full month and lots of paperwork.
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K3WE
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09/25/23 07:49am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Rank your RV issues
Plumbing
Batteries
Tires
Crappy quality
Roof
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K3WE
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09/23/23 06:36am |
General RVing Issues
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Tampa, FL: Lazy question
We are planning to go to Tampa at Christmas. Our fantasy is to park the camper and spend a few days with family (and sleep at their place).
I’ve done some internet work, and haven’t found great answers.
Does anyone have relevant experience/suggestions?
What did you do?
Who/where?
Two footnotes:
1. Their driveway is not an option.
2. Getting a campsite and not sleeping there is an option, but the fantasy would be a campground with a “storage lot”.
Discussion welcome.
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K3WE
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09/23/23 06:17am |
General RVing Issues
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How to search for tires?
I don't want this to be a tire bashing thread, ALTHOUGH, I may have purchased my last ever TRAILER tire. :M
This is for a utility trailer (not a camper).
As I've searched around, I find the search engines lacking because NOT EVERYTHING is width, aspect, diameter...especially when it comes to 15-17" rims.
There's a bunch of passenger car tires, and a bunch of light truck tires, but no way to filter out the wrong load ranges.
Also, I could care less about the width and aspect ratio- pretty much anything will work for my application. I want to find a cheaper, load range E LT tire.
I'll probably just drop by a couple of stores, but with all of our modern computing power, it's not that bizzare of a search to ask for Load Range E 16 and get a list, rather than going one by one AND having to double check where they sneak in P (or even lighter tires with no designation.
/rant. :)
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K3WE
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08/14/23 11:54am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Rank your RV issues
Rank your most encountered RV issues.
Ours have been:
1. Water leak on/at roof ***Yes
1A Water leak from plumbing
2. Slide issues ***Not yet
3. Tire flats ***Yes!
4. Converter failure ***Not yet
5. General stuff from crappy construction
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K3WE
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08/14/23 11:41am |
General RVing Issues
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