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corza3

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gday got my radiator flushed yesterday in my vx calais 5.7, as it had the green coolant in it when i bought it but when i got it back last night on the bill it says they only put 2.5 litres of coolant in and i thought 5 litres was meant to go in, so now im a bit worried they either didnt flush it properly & only did the radiator and left green stuff in there or just didnt put enough coolant in, would it matter if they only put 2.5 litres in
 

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gday got my radiator flushed yesterday in my vx calais 5.7, as it had the green coolant in it when i bought it but when i got it back last night on the bill it says they only put 2.5 litres of coolant in and i thought 5 litres was meant to go in, so now im a bit worried they either didnt flush it properly & only did the radiator and left green stuff in there or just didnt put enough coolant in, would it matter if they only put 2.5 litres in

I would be more concerned that they put green stuff back in it. You are not to use that coolant in LS1's.

Did they replace it with green coolant?
 

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no they put the red stuff in but when they said they only needed to put 2 1/2 litres in i thought they might not have flushed it properly and left some green stuff in the block or somethin to only take the 2 1/2 litres. do you think it would be right or i was thinking bout reflushing it myself
 

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possibly a 50/50 mix was put in?

2.5L coolant
2.5L water
 

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should have took 5L
 

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yer i thought it should of took 5 litres so i am just wondering what i should do or will it be right
 

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yeh should have been bout 5 ltrs, do holden use a long life coolant or as said before maybe a 50/50 mix, i haven't done mine yet, but will be doing it soon as its 5 years old now. are the thermostates easy to do on a gen3? might do mine on mine when i do the coolant change.
 

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a lot of coolants are 50/50 concentrate.
 

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big scam- just about every bottle of coolant you pick up has water already added to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

buy the PROPER concentrate and you will have the right amount in there...
 
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