Peak Anitfreeze low-silicate?

[Rock_Hudstone]

I got sticker shock recently when I went to buy my old favorite green Texaco Antifreeze coolant in the black bottle: $13.49 plus tax!

Anyway, I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. The Peak brand green coolant is under $10 but it doesn't mention anything on the container or web site about being "low-silicate", as does Texaco.

Is this Peak a low silicate anti-freeze:
http://www.peakantifreeze.com/peakanti.html

 

[doitmyself]

Rock,

I think you will have to contact the company to find out. I "think" that all of today's conventional coolants (vs.OAT/HOAT) are a low silicate formulation. Gone are the days of the green "snot of death" as some refer to it.

Go to the Zerex site and you will find three distinct products with excellent labeling......traditional low silicate, OAT, and G05 (HOAT).

Peak, on the other hand, is very cloudy in describing their coolants. They say that both the Long Life and Global formulas can be mixed with ALL other types. Mix OAT with HOAT...I don't think so.

It would seem that the blue bottle is their traditional/convetional low silicate green coolant, but who can tell????

Let us know what you find out.

 

[charbaby]

I just did a drain/fill ONLY on my '04 Altima 2.5S with the conventional PEAK blue jug,(For All Make & Models). I mixed it myself 50/50 with distilled water. Im not sure that it will hurt anything because I've never had cooling system issues with any coolant and I've used many over the years in forign/domestic vehicles. The Nissan coolant was rediculous at over $20.00 per gallon and the PEAK was on sale at $7.99. The PEAK was not cloudy, very clear by the way! I have searched and searched for a real answer for an alternative coolant for Honda, Toyota and Nissan that was not at the dealer prices but, I'am still a bit confused. So I used it anyway! Was I wrong?

 

[Rock_Hudstone]

Well, I called Peak today and spoke to one their tech people.

He said the Green Peak antifreeze is low silicate, as are all conventional antifreeze coolants these days, just like "doitmyself" mentioned, thanks.

Would be nice if they put that info on the bottle. However, they do say as much on their web site, but you have to read through the tech pages and make some inferences.

 

[jef1ge]

It says right on the bottle it complies with ASTM 4985. Thats the diesel wet sleeve spec. Can't be over 250 parts per million silicit.

 

[02zx9r]

when he said cloudy in describing there coolants he meant like vague, not that the coolant itself was cloudy

 

[charbaby]

02zx9r,
Yeah! I missed that! OOOPS! I did notice it later after I replied. My bad! LOL. Hoped nobody would notice.

 

[02zx9r]

No worries