{"id":3732,"date":"2018-03-19T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:51:07","slug":"g12-g13-coolant-for-audi-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/g12-g13-coolant-for-audi-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"G12 &#038; G13 Coolant for Audi Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Since I&#8217;ve owned Audis, I noticed the color of the coolant is not green but orange. My 2008 Q7 has purple pink color instead of orange as my older ones. These 2 coolant colors are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolflubes.com\/EN_EU\/Images\/132-79099_What%20you%20need%20to%20know%20about%20G13%20antifreeze%20and%20coolant%20tabel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">G12 (A8 D3) and G13 (Q7)<\/button><\/a>. All Audis before 2008 use G12 (Orange\/Red) and after 2008 G13 (Purple\/Pink). The main difference between these 2 from the normal Green Color sold in the stores is they&#8217;re made for aluminum engines and NO Phosphate and Silicate. Since I don&#8217;t change coolants on my car, only add little when needed, instead of buying the expensive original G12 or G13 from the dealers, I use dex-cool coolant for G12 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcpeuro.com\/products\/audi-vw-g13-coolant-antifreeze-1-gal-g013a8j1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audi\/VW G13 online<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">The newer G13 has silicate additives for Aluminum, Cast Iron and Magnesium Alloys Radiators unlike G12 without silicate which is good for Copper\/Brass Radiators and Heater Cores.<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve owned Audis, I noticed the color of the coolant is not green but orange. My 2008 Q7 has purple pink color instead of orange as my older ones. These 2 coolant colors are. All Audis before 2008 use G12 (Orange\/Red) and after 2008 G13 (Purple\/Pink). The main difference between these 2 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/g12-g13-coolant-for-audi-cars.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,113,466,535,39],"tags":[770,773,771,772,774,777,775,776,778],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a4-b6-cabriolet","category-a6-c4","category-a8-d2","category-a8-d3","category-a8-d4","category-q5","category-q7","tag-coolant","tag-dex-cool","tag-g12","tag-g13","tag-orange-color-coolant","tag-phosphate","tag-purple-pink-coolant","tag-red-color-coolant","tag-silicate"],"views":1984,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}