Cooling system flushing

[magoogriff]

Get this one!

At my local garage they were going to flush out the water system on a car so they drained the system a bit and proceeded to stuff a quarter of a packet of cheap clothes washing powder ( co-op non bio) into the expansion tank filler hole!! On enquiry it seems this is a crackin way of flushing out the entire cooling system withour using harmful/caustic products. After getting the egnine warm and running it fir a bit the result was amazing!!The rubbish that came out on draining the radiator was mad-even better results if you leave it for a few days normal use.They do it all the time now!!

Anyone else heard of this one??

Magoo

[Drift]

cant say Ive heard of that, good old back flushing for me I think using a hose pipe should give the same results.

[drinksoptional]

i use the old hose pipe too dodgy pratice that using soap powder it has the tendancy to turn into a gooey mess when cold blocking pipes it did to my washing machine when the hot pipe buggered up

[john (smifffy)]

i used the stuff that you use for descaling a kettle put it in and leave for a few days then drain and flush

as anything that that descales will tend to leave a deposit build up in rad or heater matrix


so its easier to just flush back through

[john boy]

Yeah does work i've used it before going do it on the mrs's freelander when it's done

[mystic fred]

which one washes whiter..?

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