Like Jim said, he's wrong.  He'll just keep filling the overflow bottle until it tops up the tank, and that's a waste of time.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dan N
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:48 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Filling the coolant reservoir...

hi all,

Recently I had a discussion with a guy regarding filling the coolant
reservoir, the main with a blue cap - on 2.1 WBX engine...

- me: I always fill it as much as to the max and fill the overflow tank to
max at the cap.

- him: he fills the main reservoir only half way at the seams of the tank
fill the overflow tank to max line

I think he's wrong...

what do you think?

thanks

dan