I needed some straight antifreeze to bring coolant in a couple of vehicles up to the full level . I went to WalMart and saw most antifreeze at over $8 was already diluted 50/50 . After some hard searching I found some undiluted antifreeze for $1 a gallon more . Be careful you don't pay $4 a gallon for the water in these jugs .

 

I know it, rippin people off because of their ignorance!! Ain't it great. But seriously the guy that came up with that got a nice bonus!

 

As Anti-Freeze should be mixed 50/50 with distilled water, they're just providiing a service to the uninformed/unskilled driver who's low on coolant.

Check any bottle of soft drink is you want to see a product that's mostly water.

 

I see what youre saying but it just means we are all one step closer to becoming "sheeple" baaaa.....baaaa..... I mean if a fella can't read a jug than he shouldn't be driving that's for sure. I guess that kinda stuff is for people that have more dollars than sense! As for pop, any unskilled idiot can mix water in a jug(antifreeze), but not many have the technical know how, or the equipment to atually produce pop. It doesn't take a chemist to mix water and another liquid together, it does to produce pop.

I'll get off my soap box again

Tom

 

Along the sames lines, but on a different topic, it has always amazed me how many ADULTS I rent homes or appartments to don't know how to light a pilot light on a water heater or furnace. In my leases I tell them if I have to come out it is $35 fee.

Attention DTR Parents! Don't let your kids move out of the house until they know how to light a pilot light.

.......and Oh yea! Make sure you tell them where the garbage goes after you put it down a garbage disposal. I had a tenant ask me if she needed to empty it.


Now I'm off my soap box.

 

hmmm, I do not know how to light a pilot light... Never cooked using gas. I have always been on total electric. Inform me....

 

SHeep? SHEEP? Someone say 'sheep'?

chaikwa.

 

Charging $3 or $4 a gallon for water is a service ? What about informed and skilled drivers that want to increase protection to a vehicle someone may have added a little water to when it was little low ? These companies selling the diluted product are hoping consumers don't notice what they are buying or the unreasonable price they are paying for it . If I had sent my wife to WalMart guess what she would have bought ?

 

If there wasn't a market for it, it probabaly wouldn't be on the shelf (and cases of it in the warehouse).

Why should WE be the ones to protect uneducated consumers from themselves?
Just buy the undiluted stuff and chuckle at the other guy.
It's not worth popping a gasket over.

 

I like it ! I carry the pre diluted stuff in my tool box in a sealed jug if I should need it on the road. I buy the non diluted stuff when I am flushing out the system at home and mix it myself.

I am happy they sell it that way so I can carry an emergency jug that won't leak all over everything

 

I agree it is convenient and there is a market for it but charging the same price as regular antifreeze is a ripoff .

 

Yep, I think it's a "could go both ways" thing. One one hand you're paying out the butt for plain old water, but on the other, there's the conveinence factor, just pour, instead of having to get a bucket, mix, and pour. I get the "concentrated" stuff and mix myself.

 

You guys can make fun of premixed coolant all day long, but the bottom line is this, the water is deionized, ultra filtered and uv processed before being mixed with coolant. Thus vitually eliminating any chance of contaminating your cooling system with impurities, metals, calcium, or fortifying agents added to most municiple water supply systems. Unless you frequently check the condition of your coolant, ( dca,ph levels), you are headed for major cooling system problems. For the individuals that like to do thier own maintenance and cooling system servicing it would behoove you to use pre mixed coolant. I would think that an extra $20.00 to service my cooling system with premixed coolant is far less expensive than replacing waterpumps or dealing with an overheating engine because of plugged coolant passages. I can't tell you how many cylinder liners I have pulled that are all pitted out and leaking because of poor coolant condition.
When my 06 is due for a cooling service it will be getting premixed coolant.

 

Distilled water isn't always found when you need it. You'll pay just like you do for any other emergency item.

 

Is the water from my reverse osmosis filter acceptable to use in the rad? Is it not very close to distilled water?