Antifreeze Prestone or OEM BMW
I've only ever used Prestone which works great and has never been an issue.
I use prestones all weather,Great stuff
But for the love of god use the blue stuff. Preferably the correct brand but I couldn't find any in my hick-ass town so I used Prestone and I haven't noticed any ill effects
After that, you can run generally whatever universal coolant you'd like. I do a universal Prestone and have no cooling problems. I live at the beach and drive my stage 2 Jetta 2.5L pretty hard.
I bought prestone Max concentrate for all vehicles. The yellow stuff. I also looked at the technical data sheets on the product. Happy to report this thing runs cooler than it ever has and I live in Phoenix arizona.
Prestone European coolant...premixed
No issues.for.me
Prestone coolant. That's extremely good.
I run the prestone green coolant in my e36 since 2006 and my 540i/6 since 2008. They're both fine. The old engine still looked & ran great. The radiator in my 540i was still from 1998 until very recently when I did a cooling system refresh - entirely preventive.
Prestone does work, but Toyota uses RTV to seal the coolant passages between timing cover/thermostat housing and engine block. Prestone uses 2-EHA which has been shown to be aggressive on silicone, however it’s not uncommon to see leaks with the OE coolant that uses sebacic acid which is also a plasticizer. That said, I have a Sienna and LS430 that’s filled with Prestone, no coolant leaks… yet.
I stopped at the gas station, got a gallon of good old tried and true Prestone Green which destroyed a water cooled alternator.
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