GSmamba

I have a question on coolant, when my timing belt was done they put in some gold coolant car has been running good with it. I changed my starter today and lost a little bit of coolant so I want into my shed and poured in some coolant thinking it was gold but turned out to be green. I poured in maybe a quart of it, would this affect my car?

MikeFig82

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Isn't the gold coolant for Ford? You should of had the shop use OEM Red LL or equivalent.

GSmamba

Yeah it had red coolant before the timing belt change didn't think anything of it until today when I changed out the starter. Hopefully it doesn't affect anything might flush out coolant and add the red

shwalker07

I recommend you avoid that corrosive/seal eating universal green coolant and get some factory Toyota Red coolant properly mixed with distilled water. If you can not get your hands on the factory red coolant, Zerex makes a Asian vehicle formula coolant which has been proven a good quality coolant option as well.

MedicalDoc

Change it ASAP. Get the pink one from Toyota (super long life, already premixed). It'll probably be good until the next timing belt/water pump change. I've seen it for $16.00 on ebay; it was $23.00 at Toyota this year in the town I live in. You'll need 3 gallons.

GSmamba

I'm just going to change it, ganna have to do it next week along with my valve cover gaskets. Knock them both out same day. Do I have to do a full flush or can I just pull the plug on the radiator and let all that drain then refill?

shwalker07

Best to do a full flush as old coolant will still be sitting in the lower block and your heater core will mostly still be full of old coolant once it stop dripping from the radiator.