Originally Posted By: Olas
Cheesepuffs, I feel like you're trying to mug me off.
If "Error 404: Benefits not found" is true, why do coolant filters exist? And why do people on this forum use them?
There must be benefits, otherwise nobody would invent/market/sell/buy/use such a filter.
This is my last post in this thread, and I mean no disrespect here, but that's an awfully nieve mindset.
You ever hear of Tornados? Those air inlet inserts? Those exist. And yet they are snakeoil and do not increase power or fuel economy whatsoever, it's all a gimmick. I can buy octane booster off a shelf too that claims to make my vehicle run better! But does it? Nope! It's snakeoil and is a gimmick that sucks people in that don't know any better, like the Tornado. What about oil additives like Slick 50 and Z-Max that are pretty costly, feature bold claims written on the box, and yet don't improve your oil or engine life in the slightest? Surely they MUST improve SOMETHING! They exist!!
Such is not the case my friend. Just people you can buy a coolant filter does not mean it will improve anything. So what if some small amount of people use them. Some small amount of people buy shake-weights and think they are going to build muscle mass too... There's a sucker born everyday though, right? I'm posting in this thread to tell you not to be one of those suckers.
By the way as far as extending your drain interval goes, you don't need a filter for that. You should be doing that anyway. The anti-corrosion quality of coolant lasts for five years which means that your current one year interval is wasting five times as much coolant and five times as much money as necessary. What you're doing with coolant is like somebody changing their motor oil every 1,000 miles. Which would be ridiculous and just plain wasteful.
Again, not trying to be rude, but my goodness your practices and filter idea are overkill. Do you replace your tires after they wear down to 75% of their tread depth too? I bet you don't, because it just doesn't make sense to.