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Subject:Re: Where do you get your coolant?
From:Craig Cowan
Date:Thu, 15 May 2014 13:01:32 -0400

Nothing wrong with regular old Prestone. It's green. It's cheap. It supposedly phosphate free. And you're going to change it due to leaks and repairs every two years anyway.

-craig

> On May 15, 2014, at 12:28 PM, John Goubeaux <john@UCSB.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Chris Very Funny,
> 
> On the note of Switzerland and auto parts:
> 
> I just was talking to a friend who moved to Switzerland, he is a do it
> yourself kind of guy who did all his own work on his Vanagon back in
> California, and ironically he claims there are NO auto part stores in CH
> and that he could not even get oil filters for his car ( unless he went
> into Germany )  Apparently ( maybe even dictated by law ) you are
> supposed to bring your car to the dealer for everything.  Needless to
> say, he is having a hard time adjusting to this aspect of his new home.
> 
> -john
> 
> 
> 
>> On 5/14/14 4:57 PM, Chris S. wrote:
>> I get mine from coolant cows which are fed phosphate-free blue feed in the Swiss mountains and are milked by lederhosen-clad monks who chant unleaky chants of the most permanently sealed variety.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> Wysłane z iPhone'a
>> 
>> Dnia May 13, 2014 o godz. 16:15 "Fuzzy :philippe" <fuzzmeister@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a):
>> 
>>> I've been getting it from Buslab, but at $37 for a liter, that seems a lot.
>>> 
>>> Philippe
>>> '87 2.1L Vanagon GL Camper

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