96eb96
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 96 EB V6 OHV 4WD
When I flushed my 96 and filled coolant I used Prestone Extended life 5/150 coolant for all makes and models. It looks like a quality product and they are an OEM for some makes. It is yellow but as we know color doesn't really matter today. Normally these Ex's use traditional green coolant. I picked that brand because the green coolants were cheap store or noname brands. The manual says to use a national brand of coolant, but 12 years ago all coolant was green.
Now I'm reading articles that those one for all coolants don't protect all models. I don't know if that applies to older or newer models which take specific coolants. I see now that motorcraft makes a green coolant, and I'm considering swapping it in. Most shops I called said they use prestone on everything except GM dex-cool apps. One shop said the prestone would be extra money over green because it is a long lasting premium product. THe shop owner said that is what he puts in his ex.
From what I understand there are 4 types of coolant:
Traditional Green
Dex Cool for GM- Organic Acid Tech- (usually orange but never go by color)
New H-05 - Hybrid OAT - Newer vehicles
All Purpose(Prestone,Others in the Big chain stores) - Special Blend HOAT/OAT
What do you guys use?
Now I'm reading articles that those one for all coolants don't protect all models. I don't know if that applies to older or newer models which take specific coolants. I see now that motorcraft makes a green coolant, and I'm considering swapping it in. Most shops I called said they use prestone on everything except GM dex-cool apps. One shop said the prestone would be extra money over green because it is a long lasting premium product. THe shop owner said that is what he puts in his ex.
From what I understand there are 4 types of coolant:
Traditional Green
Dex Cool for GM- Organic Acid Tech- (usually orange but never go by color)
New H-05 - Hybrid OAT - Newer vehicles
All Purpose(Prestone,Others in the Big chain stores) - Special Blend HOAT/OAT
What do you guys use?