Apart from preventing personal injury, adding coolant to a hot engine can also cause damage to the engine itself, and can be particularly dangerous when it is overheating.

Though coolant and antifreeze are often used interchangeably, they aren’t the same. Here are the differences car owners should be aware of.

Automotive cooling systems are pressurized, meaning that if you open the cap on a hot engine, coolant could shoot out, spraying you with boiling liquid and potentially causing severe burns.

Checking up on your coolant is easy to forget, but an engine’s coolant is just as important as oil when it comes to your car. Coolant does raises the boiling point of the cooling system in ...

Since an engine can suffer severe damage if it’s run too hot, you should be concerned if there are indications the engine is overheating.

Coolant mixed with oil is bad news because ethylene glycol doesn't work well as a lubricant. It doesn't take long for contaminated oil to destroy an engine.

As is often said, oil is the lifeblood of engines. In fact, it's so important, we can sometimes forget about the other lifeblood, coolant. Coolant is critical to the proper function of any engine ...

Checking and Adding Liquid to Your Cooling System One of the quickest, easiest, and least expensive tasks you can perform to keep your cooling system cool is to check the fluid level in the system ...

Apart from preventing personal injury, adding coolant to a hot engine can also cause damage to the engine itself, and can be particularly dangerous when it is overheating.