There is so much I don't understand about coolant! Seems like things got pretty weird after about 1993!
So I have a 2021 Kia Rio which needed a little top off of coolant. I spent WAY too much time trying to figure out if it's an OAT, HOAT, PHOAT, or maybe even a POAT (if such a thing even exists). Then I started seeing a bunch of stuff starting with "G" (G05, G12, G12++, ect.) and my head began to ache.
So I went way out of my way to go to a Kia dealer, and even they weren't sure what might be in it, but appeared much more confident when I told them it was pink. They sold me the stuff you see in the pictures.
So, good people, I hope you can help me with two questions:
1) what kind of coolant is that, and
2) where can I find out about what exactly makes each type of coolant different, and how to correlate the chemical composition of the coolant to its name, such as G05 or PHOAT?
So I have a 2021 Kia Rio which needed a little top off of coolant. I spent WAY too much time trying to figure out if it's an OAT, HOAT, PHOAT, or maybe even a POAT (if such a thing even exists). Then I started seeing a bunch of stuff starting with "G" (G05, G12, G12++, ect.) and my head began to ache.
So I went way out of my way to go to a Kia dealer, and even they weren't sure what might be in it, but appeared much more confident when I told them it was pink. They sold me the stuff you see in the pictures.
So, good people, I hope you can help me with two questions:
1) what kind of coolant is that, and
2) where can I find out about what exactly makes each type of coolant different, and how to correlate the chemical composition of the coolant to its name, such as G05 or PHOAT?