Clarity Coolant - 3 drain and fills

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Atkinson

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Just wondered if anyone else has changed their coolant.
I finally bit the bullet and did all three coolants.
Wasn't simple due to the involved air bleed processes, but definitely do-able DIY.
Engine coolant is specified by Honda at 100,000 miles, but there is no coolant that lasts that long. Even the Honda Type 2 Extended Life coolant in our cars "will give complete protection for 5 years or 60,000 miles". After that corrosion inhibitors deplete, buffering deletes and pH begins moving toward acidic, electrolytic degradation begins affecting engine/radiator metals and hoses. Not to mention the expensive cooled parts like inverter, charger, DC-DC converter, battery module, electric pumps, valves, and electric heater.
I live in CA emissions state and most of these components are covered for 15 years or 150,000 miles. Most of my previous cars had well over that mileage when I sold them - so the warranty is nice, but I want a reliable vehicle at 150,000 miles that I can keep driving reliably and inexpensively. That's why I chose Honda's.
 
Atkinson said:
Just wondered if anyone else has changed their coolant.
I finally bit the bullet and did all three coolants.
Wasn't simple due to the involved air bleed processes, but definitely do-able DIY.
Engine coolant is specified by Honda at 100,000 miles, but there is no coolant that lasts that long. Even the Honda Type 2 Extended Life coolant in our cars "will give complete protection for 5 years or 60,000 miles". After that corrosion inhibitors deplete, buffering deletes and pH begins moving toward acidic, electrolytic degradation begins affecting engine/radiator metals and hoses. Not to mention the expensive cooled parts like inverter, charger, DC-DC converter, battery module, electric pumps, valves, and electric heater.
I live in CA emissions state and most of these components are covered for 15 years or 150,000 miles. Most of my previous cars had well over that mileage when I sold them - so the warranty is nice, but I want a reliable vehicle at 150,000 miles that I can keep driving reliably and inexpensively. That's why I chose Honda's.
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As far as I'm concerned, majority of the claritys on the road will be in landfills by the time lack of coolant changes causes a problem.
Modern day coolants can last 15 years.
 
I have the procedure for changing the engine coolant but do have the proceedures for changing the inverter coolant and the battery coolant. If you have electronic copies of those two proceedures, would you please post them to the forum?

It would have been nice for Honda to provide a coolant update fluid so that the anti-corrosion inhibitors can be renewed after a prosribed time (or coolant test failure). This is common for heavy equipment and I did this for my CAT equipment.

Thanks, leop
 
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