Pink coolant dex cool12/2/2023 My old VW Jetta had "lifetime transmission fluid" which turns out to be a complete lie. Fewer maintenance intervals = cheaper cost to maintain the warranty for the manufacturers. The main reason they use these "specialty" coolants is so they can extend the lifetime of the coolant between flushes & thus claim the cars are "maintenance free" as well as extend their warranties to 60,000 miles. I flushed my red crap out & replaced it with regular green prestone cuz I don't see the point in spending $20 for proprietary toyota crap when I can get standard coolant for $8 a gallon. Mixing toyota pink/red with dexcool = baddd.if you do it'll sludge & gunk up the cooling system quickly. If it's already in there, it's likely better to stick with it unless you want to do a full coolant flush. I've never read of anyone specifically having problems with it in Vibes when it was put in, but there you go. Since GM itself didn't follow the manual on the factory fill, personally I think that's a good idea. The Japanese specifically prohibit 2-EHA (the controversial additive in Dex-cool) from their coolants, so most people recommend not using it in Japanese designed engines. If your Vibe has Dex-cool in it, it was changed and someone followed the original GM manual. Dex-cool was never put in Vibes from the factory. It comes pre-mixed (If you buy it in Canada, it's mixed stronger). 2nd Gens came with Toyota pink, which is a 5 year, 120,000 mile coolant on the factory fill, then 3 year, 60,000 thereafter. It comes full strength and needs to be diluted with distilled water (50/50 for US, 60/40 for Canada). 1st Gens came with Toyota red, which is a three year, 60,000 mile coolant. Here's what I've been able to gather when I was looking into it a few months ago. So is the "pink" a 2 year coolant or a 5 year coolant? While I ache for and can afford something new and different my tightwad genes tend towards keeping the '09 Vibe for a long time so I think I will probably have the coolant change done at a Toyota dealer. I really have not paid any attention to the color of the coolant in the '09 until I read this post - it is definitely "pink". 2014 for me but I only have 27,000 miles on the odometer. The '09 manual says replace coolant at 5 years. The sludge problem reported for Dexcool was not likely to show up if I replaced it every 3 years. ![]() Anyway, after some research I allowed them to replace it with Dexcool. ![]() The Pontiac dealer said the OEM was DEXCOOL, but if it did that would be what, 5 years 50,000 miles? My memory s that the OEM looked more pink than Dexcool orange. I decided to "average it out" and sought replacement at 3 years 18,000 miles. My 2003 manual said to replace coolant at 24,000 miles or 2 years whichever came first. This has been the topic of many posts over many years.
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