Whats in a Color When it Comes to Radiator Fluid?
The coolant color game continues to confuse many in the auto radiator repair industry. Hopefully this easy reference will help! Yellow Coolant: Valvoline G-05, CelCool, Ford Truck factory fill Red-Orange or “Strawberry” Red: Detroit Diesel PowerCool Plus, Texaco & CAT ELC, and International & GMC Truck factory fill. Fuchsia: FleetCharge, DDC PowerCool, CAT DEAC, factory fill at Mack and Freightliner. Green: Many fully-formulated brands including Prestone HD, factory fill at KW & PB, unfortunately easily confused with conventional automotive. Blue: Cummins-Fleetguard Compleat. Note: Color is not always a reliable indicator of the coolant’s family. There are green conventional and hybrid products, and we’ve even seen one green carboxylate. There are yellow coolants in alll three families. So far, we haven’t seen any orange conventional products but there are both carboxylates and hybrids in orange. All can be found in shades of red and blue. To make matters worse, most of the colors chan
