Dexcool...

[01AccordLuvr]

Read the full text of this article posted at this web address over 2 and half years ago, (May 2003)

http://www.imcool.com/articles/antif...le-Excerpt.pdf

GM Under
Legal Fire For
DEX-COOL®
Related
Problems

By John R. Hess

Eight Class Action Lawsuits—
List Growing

There are now at least eight states
in which a DEX-COOL®-related
Class Action Lawsuit has been
filed: Missouri, California, New York,
New Jersey, Texas, Illinois (State and
Federal), Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Defendants include GM, ChevronTexaco
and Equilon-Shell (Shell Oil Company),
but not all are named in all suits. The
entire (22 page) complaint for the Illinois
case is posted for download on the
plaintiff’s legal firm’s website:
cwcd.com/pdf/dexcool_complaint.pdf
(Acrobat format).
The allegations vary in the cases, but
range from DEX-COOL being defective,
that it failed to perform, that OAT
(Organic Acid Technology) inhibitors
cause a greater amount of rust and corrosion
than other inhibitors and that the
defendants knew that it lacked the adequate
corrosion inhibitors to protect the
vehicles’ cooling systems.
Is it out of warranty?
The defendants and their attorneys
are well aware that their claims are for
failures occurring outside of the vehicle’s
stated warranty: 3 years or 36,000 miles.
But since the owner’s manual makes reference
to the extended life of DEX as
being 5 years or 100-150,000 miles, they
claim that that period should constitute
the actual warranty. To be specific, they
believe GM is in breach of warranty
under the Magnuson-Moss Act.
Here’s how that’s phrased in the
Missouri complaint: “GM gave a written
warranty that the Dex-Cool coolant could
remain in the vehicle for 5 years or
150,000 miles (100,000 for 1996 vehicles),
whichever came first. GM breached
its warranty to the plaintiffs and the class
because all of those vehicles developed
rusty sludge in their cooling systems,
which required the Dex-Cool to be
removed.”

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[dab61vette]

Originally Posted by jamcllw

And don't mix green and orange coolant. It will gel up and cause your car to overheat and possibly cause some heafty repair bills.
I think you can mix the newer yellow stuff with it but I personally would just stick with the orange.

Bottom line,Once you have Dexcool in your system ,do not replace it with regular antifreeze,nor do not mix it with regular!As this will cause an acid effect that will destroy your engineor some of its componets.The early problems were caused by cheap material seals.If dexcool is used correctly,at a 50-50 water mixture using only filtered tap water, then there will be no problems. thanks

[BNaylor]

Originally Posted by dab61vette

Bottom line,Once you have Dexcool in your system ,do not replace it with regular antifreeze,nor do not mix it with regular!As this will cause an acid effect that will destroy your engineor some of its componets.The early problems were caused by cheap material seals.If dexcool is used correctly,at a 50-50 water mixture using only filtered tap water, then there will be no problems. thanks

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