Coolant freezing query

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  • UrS4boy
    S2Forum Obsessed
    • Feb 2006
    • 11859
    • Country: Canada

    #16
    Sorry. Being in Canada, I have to laugh a little bit at this thread. I grew up on the Prairies (Saskatchewan) and if it didn't hit -40 C at least once a winter, it wasn't a real winter. We typically ran a 50/50 mixture of antifreeze/coolant and distilled water and that is usually good to -45 C. That said, the oil isn't good at that temps so typically we have some form of engine heater, e.g. an immersion type heater in on of the casting/frost plugs.

    -25 C with a 50/50 coolant/water mixture should be fine with respect to freezing issues.

    Of course now I live in Vancouver and -10 C is a very cold winter.
    RS2'd 93 UrS4 5 spd sedan
    94 UrS4 V8 6 spd manual avant

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    • s2driveruk
      Super Moderator
      • Jul 2003
      • 12696
      • Country: England

      #17
      There is a pink motul coolant available locally used it on the old A6 down there...possibly in Bourg St Maurice. There is an Audi garage up in Sallanches...back up to Albertville on the motorway but a fair drive as a round trip.
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      • dest
        S2Forum Freak
        • Feb 2006
        • 4287
        • Country: England

        #18
        Why not just ask the locals what they do?

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