Ford’s New Yellow P-OAT Coolant: Should You Upgrade?

hey guys what's up welcome back to the ford type meculoco channel today we're going to talk about the latest and greatest ford coolant which is the new yellow coolant now this coolant is a phosphate based oat coolant which is similar to what the the asian vehicle's been using for years with great success and this new yellow coolant completely replaces the old orange or oat coolant that ford's been using since 2011. so i'm getting a lot of questions about this new coolant because ford has totally discontinued the orange coolant and suppliers have been depleted of their stock so now they're being told to use this new yellow coolant and there's a lot of questions surrounding it can i top off with it do i need to do a drainage fill do i need to do a super flush on there are they compatible what's going on so today we're going to answer all those questions plus give you a brief history of the ford coolants throughout the years let's get to it starting off on the left here with the oldest valve for coolant the old faithful green coolant now ford and other manufacturers use this coolant for ever it seemed ford used it all the up until 2001 mid year now this coolant is inorganic acid technology based coolant that uses silicates for corrosion protection it was great for the old style cast iron long blocks and heads up back in the day but did but because it used silicates for corona protection it didn't offer the heat transfer or that some of the newer coolants offered okay plus this coolant did not last very long it lasted maybe three years thirty thousand miles and ford needed something that could last much longer and of course offer better heat transfer so in 2001 ford started using the motorcraft's gold coolant now this coolant was a haute coolant hoat which is a hybrid organic acid technology coolant which basically gave you the best of both worlds between the inorganic acid technology and the organic acid technology coolants so this coolant gave you best of both worlds extended protection but also offered greater protection for the aluminum blocks and heads that were starting to come out the higher pressures uh higher temperatures these engines were running at yet it was still compatible and gave good protection for the old cast iron blocks this coolant is my all-time favorite coolant i absolutely love the ford gold coolant now ford used this coolant all the way up until i would say 0 9 and 10 for certain models change over to this coolant and for other ford models they used the gold coolant only up until 2011 which is when they switched over to the oat coolant now in 2009 and 10 ford dabbled in the p oat or phosphate based oak coolant similar to the new one that's coming out now and this is actually a mazda coolant uh that they use in some of their models like the edge and the fusion i know of for about two years now this coolant so a very weird variation of the po coolant um it has a dark dye to it um it has a special bottle color and you cannot leave it on your shelf for too long or expose it to sunlight for too long it'll degrade the coolant very rapidly so it's a special coolant for sure and they only use that for a couple of years but you can see a difference it's definitely much darker than regular coolant now starting in 2011 ford went to a full-on oat coolant in most of their vehicles so oak coolant is an organic acid technology coolant so it got rid of the phosphates and the silicates for corona protection and offered other protection methods which increase the heat transfer but as we all know the oak coolant which is basically a dex cool clone has a lot of problems with it has a five year 100 000 mile life expectancy but as we all know this coolant has a lot of issues when it gets down to really cold temps uh has a lot of fallout issues and a lot of protection issues also so starting in 2018 ford jumped over to another version of oat coolant which is the po coolant right here which is a phosphate based coolant which is yellow or lime green as you see here so as you can see went throughout the years we changed a lot of different colors but they're pretty distinct in color so you should be able to tell which one is actually in your vehicle and of course consult your owner's manual make sure you're using the proper coolant for the vehicle that you are operating because like i said each one of these protects in different ways for the different technology as you go throughout the years moving on let's talk about how you transition over from the old orange oak coolant to the new yellow p o coolant which i highly recommend for anybody out there running the one of these two old coolants especially engines that are running an internal water pump like the 3.5 liter cyclone engine it's gonna make it last much much longer the new corrosion properties of this coolant to po coolant are incredible compared to the old oak coolants so let's talk about it so this new p oat coolant is backwards compatible like i said with the old orange oat coolant and even the old specialty dark green coolants what that means is that you can literally take this new coolant over to a system currently running the oak coolant or especially dark coolant and top it off you can do a drain of this old coolant and put this in without flushing you can do a flush of these old coolants from your system and fill with this it doesn't matter it's backwards compatible now of course to get the the best amount you know the most out of this new coolant with this protection properties you want to do a really good flush of your cooling system and then start off with a yellow po coolant a word of warning here though because it is phosphate based it reacts harshly with the magnesium and calcium and hard water from tap water so you want to make sure if you're not already you want to make sure you're using distilled water with this phosphate based coolant right here also just because you switch over to this new coolant which has a 10 year 200 000 mile protection interval that doesn't mean your old vehicle that was currently running one of these two coolants now has 10-year 200 000 mile protection ford states that you need to stick to the original protection interval for your vehicle which should be five years 100 000 miles for these two coolants all right there you have it i hope you guys got something out of this i hope it was uh clear enough for you guys to follow um like i said it's backwards compatible with the old orange oat coolant especially dark green coolant but no other coolant so if your vehicle originally had gold coolant or the original green coolant is not compatible with those cooling systems do not use it it's only backwards compatible with the oak coolant and the dark green coolants and i do highly recommend switching over to as soon as possible uh because it offers much greater protection over other um coolants out there it's a great coolant so that's all for now i'll see you guys next time

Channel: FordTechMakuloco

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Length: 7min 47sec (467 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 19 2020