My personal experience with coolant mixing with oil includes a 1972 Saab 99 with a cracked head. It was old and not worth fixing, so I traded it in and took whatever I could get.

My personal experience with coolant mixing with oil includes a 1972 Saab 99 with a cracked head. It was old and not worth fixing, so I traded it in and took whatever I could get.

My oil and coolant got mixed together, what now? Lou Trottier. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published November 9, 2018Updated November 11, 2018. This article was published more than 6 years ago.

If your used coolant looks like a chocolate milkshake, that means oil has mixed with your coolant, and that’s a sign of larger problems such as a blown head gasket that you’ll need to fix ...

I have oil in my coolant in my 2011 Ford Territory. What could be wrong? Any time you have oil mixing with coolant, you have a pretty major problem on your hands. In the case of your Territory, it ...

Coolant is a 50/50 combination of water and antifreeze. Like motor oil, coolant flows through internal combustion engines to absorb and remove heat, prevent corrosion, and help the motor function ...

Coolant is typically a 50/50 mix of water and ethylene glycol, although that ratio can vary. ... Synthetic engine oil can easily last twice as long as old-school dead dinosaur juice.

Potassium and sodium are byproducts of engine coolant, so seeing noticeable amounts in the oil indicates coolant is mixing with the oil, which could point to a head gasket failure.

Spain’s brutal summer heat wrecks car engines every year. Discover the single most common overheating mistake drivers make — ...

If you have to mix conventional oils and synthetics, or if you use a bottle of synthetic oil to top off a particularly hungry engine, you're not going to do any damage to your engine.Not in the ...