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Bobby Chong

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Hello everyone.



I was just wandering if the orange color coolant in my 2003 ST is the same as the GM long life coolant? I went to Wal-Mart to have a look at their coolant and all they have is the green coolant and the GM Dex-cool coolant. I thought that maybe there's a special coolant for Ford vehicles but no such luck.



Help......and thanks.
 
My ST has a sticker saying NOT to use the orange coolant. However I have a 2001. Ford may have changed something inbetween our ST's.



Cliff
 
I had a 2001 Sport Trac and now have a 2003 Sport Trac.



The early 2001 and 2002 models used what Ford called their Yellow coolant, which is a glycol based coolant like the green coolants that have been around for years. These eary model vehicles had warning stickkers and instruction in the owners manual not to use the Orange coolant. There was never an explaination given?



The 2003 and later model Sport Tracs appear to come with the Orange coolant. My understanding is that the Orange coolant has a longer life (about 5 years) similar to GM's long-life coolant.



...Rich
 
You can tell that my 2003 is one of the first off the line,

it has the "no orange" coolant sticker, yet has orange coolant in it.



Chris
 
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Chris P,

My 2003 Sport Trac was built on December 12, 2002 and like yours , it came with the Orange coolant and no stickers.



My 2001 Job1 was built on June 19, 2000 and had the Yellow cooant, and no sticker but the owners manual explicitly stated NOT to use the Orange coolant.



My guess is that there was some incompatiblity with some component of the early engines and the Orange coolant. Later, in 2002 or 2003 they made some change that allowed the Orange coolant to be used.



I do believe the new universal coolants mentioned by Gavin are safe to use in all models. Just be sure to flush out the old before changing to the new universal coolants.



...Rich
 
My '04 build date 11/03, has the orange, with the use only sticker.
 
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budmelon,

Who knows? If the GM coolant meets the Ford coolant specs the it would be OK, however I doubt that GM would care if their coolant worked in Ford vehicles.



If you want the extended life coolants use one of the universal brands like Prestone, etc mentioned by Gavin. I'm sure they are as good or better than the Ford or GM equivilants and likely a bit cheaper as well.



...Rich
 
the ford orange coolant says on the bottle only to use on mercury cougar and electric ranger

i thought the yellow coolant was mostly for 2004 and on models and green for anything older.

my two cents
 

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