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Car Forum / Toyota / Toyota Trucks / December 2005

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Other coolant options?

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Doug Herr - 30 Dec 2005 19:17 GMT
I have a 1999 Tacoma with about 28,000 miles.  I got it as a "Toyota
certified pre-owned" with 3600 miles, so the coolant has either 24,400 or
28,000 miles on it.

I am not really happy with my local Toyota dealers, and was wondering if
there are coolant options that are equal to the Toyota long life stuff.

What say you?

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Doug Kanter - 30 Dec 2005 22:07 GMT
> I have a 1999 Tacoma with about 28,000 miles.  I got it as a "Toyota
> certified pre-owned" with 3600 miles, so the coolant has either 24,400 or
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> What say you?

Buy the coolant from them, and give all your other maintenance money to
someone else. If you use a different coolant, they could use that as a
(possibly lame) reason why something failed under the hood.
Jarhead - 30 Dec 2005 23:00 GMT
> I have a 1999 Tacoma with about 28,000 miles.  I got it as a "Toyota
> certified pre-owned" with 3600 miles, so the coolant has either 24,400 or
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> What say you?

I also have a V-6 '99 Tacoma 4X4 extra cab that I purchased last year
with 75K on the odometer. I had the transmission flushed and after a
talk with the local Toyota service manager put Peak Long Life
anti-freeze in it.( http://www.peakantifreeze.com/aboutus.html )He said
that they were not demanding that Toyotas propietary anti-freeze be used
anymore.

Of course, mine is not a certified truck and I don't have to satisfy
anyone but me.

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Jarhead
Doug Herr - 30 Dec 2005 23:24 GMT
> I had the transmission flushed and after a talk with
> the local Toyota service manager put Peak Long Life anti-freeze in it.(
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Of course, mine is not a certified truck and I don't have to satisfy
> anyone but me.

Cool, thanks.  I am no longer bound by the extended warranty that was part
of the "Toyota certified" thing; it ran out 5 or 6 months ago.

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