Coolant fluids - what & where to get them.
 

After doing a bit of basic checking and shopping around i thought i would do a seperate thread on this to give back the info to those that do this at some point.

You should be using a 50/50 mix of Distilled water & Ethylene Glycol Anti freeze/coolant (NOT alcohol based anti freeze/coolant)

Asda's for the coolant fluid. Around £3.00
(Check the back of it to make sure its Ethylene Glycol Anti freeze/Coolant in case they change it)

Tesco's for the distilled water they sell it in 1L containers for £1.50

Approx 1.7L is used in the whole system.



Check this thread to see what using 'normal' water does!
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=165544

Re: Coolant fluids - what & where to get them.
 

Normal water could also corrode the alloy of your engines internal coolant passages, that explains a lot of cases of older cars cracking cylinder heads.

I bought pre-mixed coolant for the bike making sure it was for alloy engines and not alcahol based.