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1998 V70 T5 coolant colour?

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Old Oct 29th, 2020, 23:05   #1
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Hi all,

What colour coolant should this car have?

A new radiator was fitted just before my ownership and its got pink coolant in.

Is that correct?

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Old Oct 30th, 2020, 00:39   #2
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Colour is irrelevant, huge myth in the world of coolant. My current one is orange. Previously it was pink. Volvo used to be blue, but now is green. Doesn't matter worth a damn.

The only thing thing that matters is the type of coolant. These engines need HOAT based coolant.
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Old Oct 30th, 2020, 08:05   #3
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I do agree, but often the motor factors have the blue coolant with a 2 year life span and the pink is usually 5 year and more expensive, so the pink may or may not be a better coolant. Just depends if you are sold that idea!
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New rad - fantastic - they are a pig to remove I would rather be changing the coolant than the rad any day of the week and that’s before manufacturing new loading lugs / pop rivet / resin after son induced accident. He is a weapons engineer now with HMRN - god help us !!

Personally Ray I would use the opportunity to give her a good flush and replace as Cooks says with a HOAT based coolant. You do not want head issues some months down the line when doing the task in hand should give yoo change out of fifty quid

The task is even more attractive if you are doing the water pump / matrix when yoo will lose fluid anyway. Genuine Volvo or Comma is what I use
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worth you getting a haynes manual.
coolant should be green, worth getting proper genuine volvo coolant so internals dont corode
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Tosh. Volvo is now blue, and no longer green. Again, colour is entirely irrelevant and has no impact on formulation. Just make sure you use a HOAT coolant and it will be perfectly fine.
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Tosh. Volvo is now blue, and no longer green..
Still green unless they changed the colour in the last few months

This is genuine Volvo concentrated coolant purchased in May 2020 from FRF Volvo

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ive just bought genuine coolant and it is green, anyone saying its blue is sales patter cos they sold you blue probably cos the salesman didnt have any green in stock
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ive just bought genuine coolant and it is green, anyone saying its blue is sales patter cos they sold you blue probably cos the salesman didnt have any green in stock
So you're saying the same part number, sold by the same company as OE fluid, has two different colours. Thanks for further reinforcing the complete lack of relevance in coolant colour.
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if you insist it is blue, maybe it is for your year model, however for older volvos 1998 etc it is green.
the colour is very irrelevant as it has different properties.
by all means use blue, but volvo recommends genuine for 1998 models which is green, oe isnt genuine,
i prefer the real thing for my car and not a substitute so ill put the relevant green coolant in from volvo.

why not write to volvo and tell them they are wrong ? tell them to use blue coolant because you insist it is the correct liquid to put in your car.

ps, we are talking about coolant and not screen wash
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