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Coolant capacity?
« on: June 29, 2015, 08:34:31 am »
I'm going to drop the coolant today in order to change the thermostat. Does anyone know what the capacity is? Is it G12 or G13?
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Re: Coolant capacity?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2015, 09:38:18 am »
I used 4.2L but i also changed the water pump.
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Re: Coolant capacity?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2015, 09:43:52 am »
Blimey is that all? I have just been looking at VW Vortex and people are stating it's 8 litres, I guess that is with a completely dry system? I was going to get two 5 litre bottles of ready mixed G12 do you think I could just get away with one? I'm going to completely flush the system with the hose.
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2015, 10:03:41 am »
One 5L will do it unless your going to flush the system.
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Re: Coolant capacity?
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2015, 10:10:55 am »
Cool, I doubt I'll be able to flush all the old coolant out so I'll stick with one 5L  :happy2:
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2015, 10:15:24 am »
I think u need to use VCDS to flush the system.
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Re: Coolant capacity?
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2015, 10:20:30 am »
I have VCDS but I don't recall seeing any options to do this on there?
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2015, 10:29:21 am »
I think its to monitor the coolant temp.
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Re: Coolant capacity?
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2018, 10:43:39 pm »
In the throws of doing this now actually... is it an easy enough job to do? I've got an 07 Match FSi and I can't see it ever being done in the service book...

The current stuff in there is pink in colour so I'm guessing its original VW. So I'm looking at some G13? I know it's backward compatible with G11/G12 etc.

So where do I start? Completely cold engine, I read mixed reports about the Mk4/5 having a tap on the back of the radiator that you can access when the car is jacked up? Do you start there  :smiley:
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