Halfords "red" Antifreeze?

[Neil Clark]

Just been to Halfords to get some of there red antifreeze. Is it the stuff that says on the side "suitable for ford, jaguar, etc, etc" but it dont say Toyota!!?? is this the right stuff?. Bloke says its £16 for 5 litres

Please help, want to get this sorted!!

Cheers

Neil

[+Steve]

hmmm... better off with toyota red!

otherwise flush the system and use green as it is more readily available.

[Neil Clark]

Green???? thats a new one? seen blue but not green!

Neil

[+Steve]

yeah.. I did actually meant blue.. but i have had green before... many of my older cars had green

Red really withstand much lower tempratures... not really needed here.

[Carlgolsby]

I've seen green anti freeze but I don't know if you can get it anymore was kinda flourescent! had it in my old Civic but i'd agree with Steve

[+Steve]

used to be popular years ago.. if you ever saw an accident you would always see rad water on the ground and always used to be flourescent

dont see it much nowadays

[JappyBeast]

I would just stick to Toyota Red... it isnt that expensive and at least it gives you piece of mind.

[dosenöffner]

I got some Toyota red the other week for when I had the intercooler off. It was about £3 dearer than Halfords stuff.

Cheaper in the long run when Toyota say if I use anything else in the intercooler it will corrode the internals.

[Geri]

A long-time Toyota fitter near us told us it's better NOT to use the Toyota red because it is so very corrosive.

[JappyBeast]

A long-time Toyota fitter near us told us it's better NOT to use the Toyota red because it is so very corrosive.

Dont belive that.

What do we use?.. Blue or just tap water!

I stick to red.... never had any probs.

[Neil Clark]

Did it today with toyota red.

A bit of a nitemare job!!, but sorted it

Neil

[Deejay]

I've seen green anti freeze but I don't know if you can get it anymore was kinda flourescent! had it in my old Civic but i'd agree with Steve

I have some in my car now - Garage my car was serviced at uses it, they're independant Japanese car specialists. Havent got a clue where they get it from, works fine though

[Geri]

I've just bumped into a guy who rides a Hayabusa like me, and who also works in a Toyota dealer. He said they do 2 types of coolant, green and red.The red stuff is for japanese-built engines (MR2) and the green stuff is for uk-built engines like the (corolla etc).Anyway he said the MR2 MUST have red coolant.

He also got me the spares I need for my mate's AW11 at a fantastic price, after I sorted out a problem on his bike. :D

[midmotorsteve]

QUOTE form MR2 owners manual

"Your coolant must contain either ethylene-glycol antifreeze or anticorrosive. Ethylene-glycol antifreeze is the antifreeze contained in the coolant your new toyota is delivered with...read the antifreeze or anticorrosive container fot information..."

I think this means red ethylene glycol Halfords stuff is fine