I need to change the coolant on a family member's 04 Toyota Camry w/ Toyota redish-pinkish coolant - probably original. The car has 80K miles on it and should have come with red (it wasn't made in Japan, in which case it would have been pink). I have gallons of Nissan Blue premix. It appears that they may be compatible, or maybe not. It looks like the toyota version maybe doesn't have the phosphate additive. Pink and Red appear to be quite different - Organic vs. inorganic.
Thoughts? I would love to get rid of some of this OEM Nissan stuff. When I look up Pentosin, they recommend A1 for the camry and A3 for the Nissan (blue).
I thought I saw a toyota bulletin that said pink could be used to replace red, but then I read on here that pink will eat the older radiators. So, is blue likely to be destructive?
Thoughts on Blue? Would it be worse than potentially 16 year old reddish-pink?
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The Manual states:
Toyota Super Long Life Coolant is filled ...use only similar high-quality ethylene glycol based non-silicate, non-amine, non-nitrite, and non-borate coolant with long-life hybrid organic acid technology. - sounds like Nissan Blue to me?
Thoughts? I would love to get rid of some of this OEM Nissan stuff. When I look up Pentosin, they recommend A1 for the camry and A3 for the Nissan (blue).
I thought I saw a toyota bulletin that said pink could be used to replace red, but then I read on here that pink will eat the older radiators. So, is blue likely to be destructive?
Thoughts on Blue? Would it be worse than potentially 16 year old reddish-pink?
edit:
The Manual states:
Toyota Super Long Life Coolant is filled ...use only similar high-quality ethylene glycol based non-silicate, non-amine, non-nitrite, and non-borate coolant with long-life hybrid organic acid technology. - sounds like Nissan Blue to me?
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