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Adding only plain water to your cooling
system can be dangerous. Plain water, or
some other liquid such as alcohol, can boil
before the proper coolant mixture will. Your
vehicle’s coolant warning system is set for the
proper coolant mixture.
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With plain water or the wrong mixture, your
engine could get too hot
but
you wouldn’t get
the overheat warning. Your engine could catch
fire and you or others could be burned. Use a
50/50
mixture
of
clean, drinkable water and
DEX COOL@ coolant.
Notice:
In cold weather, water can freeze and crack
the engine, radiator, heater core and other parts.
Use the recommended coolant and the proper
coolant
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e.
You can be burned if you spill coolant on hot
engine parts. Coolant contains ethylene glycol
and
it
will burn if the engine parts are hot
enough. Don’t spill coolant on a hot engine.
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