How to flush Antifreeze/Coolant for a Nissan Altima
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2024
- We are going over the steps to flush out the coolant from the radiator and coolant Reservoir for a 2015 Nissan Altima (L4 - QR25DE). This involves using distilled water to flush out the system and refilling it with Prestone Concentrate.
NOTE: For a majority of Nissan Altimas, you would need to remove the "Engine Under Cover" to access the drain plug.
1. Intro - 0:01
2. Step 1 (Set Heater to MAX setting) - 0:38
3. Step 2 (Remove/Drain Reservoir Tank) - 1:08
4. Step 3 (Remove Radiator Cap) - 2:05
5. Step 4 (Remove Radiator Drain Plug) - 2:58
6. Step 5 (Install Radiator Drain Plug) - 3:45
7. Step 6 (Fill Reservoir Tank (D. Water)) - 4:31
8. Step 7 (Fill Radiator (D. Water)) - 5:00
9. Step 8 (Install Radiator Cap) - 5:42
10. Step 9 (Warm up Engine) - 5:47
11. Step 10 (Press Accelerator (3x)) - 6:06
12. Step 11 (Remove Radiator Cap) - 6:29
13. Step 12 (Drain System (again)) - 6:42
14. Step 13 (Install New Drain Plug) - 7:55
15. Step 14 (Install Reservoir Tank) - 8:21
16. Step 15 (Fill Reservoir Tank) - 9:11
17. Step 16 (Fill Radiator) - 9:53
18. Step 17 (Run Engine) - 10:27
19. Step 18 (Top off Radiator) - 10:34
20. Step 19 (Squeeze Upper Rad Hose) - 11:15
21. Step 20 (Top Off Coolant & Install Caps) - 11:19
22. Step 21 (Test Drive) - 11:54
23. Step 22 (Dispose of Old Antifreeze) - 12:05
24. Antifreeze/Coolant Tester - 12:43
Products Used:
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Best coolant change I've ever seen.
Thank you
I agree!
Thanks so much for this video! I have a 2013 Altima. I have never performed a coolant flush and replacement before and this video gave me everything I needed. Saved me tons of money and now and have more tools for future work!
I was pretty confused about the amounts of coolant concentrate and distilled water that are added to the coolant system and reservoir starting at about 9:10. I kept asking myself why the video wasn't adding fluids at the 56/44 ratio. To anybody who's there with me, it helped me a lot to slow down, and run the numbers myself before following the video (and hey, his numbers are indeed correct!). My math below for anybody who doesn't want to do it:
The coolant system capacity is rated at 2 1/8 gal of fluid, including the reservoir. During the initial drain, we got about 5 qt = 1 1/4 gal of fluid, which theoretically leaves 7/8 gal of fluid stuck somewhere in the coolant system after we've tried to drain as much as possible. After we've performed several flushes with distilled water, we can assume that all of that 7/8 gal of fluid in the system is just water. Since the Prestone concentrate is 56/44, we theoretically want to wind up with with our coolant system having 1.19 gallons of coolant concentrate (just short of the 1+1/4 gallons, or 5 qts, the video says should be added) and 0.94 gallons of distilled water (just a bit more than the 7/8 = 0.875 gal that's stuck in the system after the final drain). That's why you add just a little bit of water into the coolant reservoir and then top of the rest of the system with coolant concentrate. If you added 5 qt of a 56/44 mixture to the system which already has a lot of water in it, your coolant would come out very diluted. Maybe to some people this was super obvious and didn't need to be explained, but for me it didn't stick until I sat down and wrote it out.
Very thorough. Very nice
The jokes, spongebob references, and thorough instructions. 10/10 video
Great video! For anyone wanting to use the OEM fluid (which is pre-mixed 50/50 - I get it from Z1 Motorsports). You can flush your heating core (which on this vehicle is right in the middle of the firewall), by getting a simple adapter kit, hooking a garden hose to the kit and reversing the flow of the water through the core. Then use the OEM fluid, pour it into the core intake, which should then push out the water from the garden hose, allowing the perfect 50/50 mix coolant to stay in the core. Detach the adapter, reattach the hoses into the core, fill the radiator as shown in this video… voila!
That very a simplistic description, but that works. Done it a few times.
Very nice. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for the really thorough tutorial! I’m definitely going to refer to this again when I flush the coolant in my 2016 Altima.
Thank you very much!! Let me know if you have any questions.
Your car will LOVE you and when it does it will love you for a long time. Very nice video!
Thank you very much!!!!
Great video on how to take care of this task! Thank you!
Thank you
Buen video ! Muy completo.
Thank you
Great video! I noticed the light for your ac wasn’t on. Does this mean I’ll only need the fan running and not the actual heating element?
Thank you. The heat was on, the temperature knob was turned all the way to heat. And this car was blowing some serious hot air when running it; had to roll the windows down.
@@mcgurrentertainment Great, thanks!
Great video. This will save me lots of money. Question: why did you put a Concentrate in the reservoir and a Pre Diluted mix into the radiator? Also, about how many times did you have to flush the radiator with a gallon of water?
I added concentrate to the reservoir, then added water (9:19). I used the same concentrate in the radiator as well. However, there was water already in the system to dilute it to the proper mix. About 7 times.
Do you burp the system every time you flush the system with the distilled water?
Yes
Can you still use distilled water to drain if you are replacing it with the blue 50/50 coolant?
Yes. Always flush with distilled water.
But it wouldn't the 50/50 coolant get diluted with the distilled water that's already inside?
If you add 50/50, yes. We added 100% concentrated
I have a few questions.
When running through the cycle, it runs through the engine and everything correct?
My coolant holds 2.25 Gal so when doing a flush does that mean add 2 gallons?
Last and not least, can I buy one of those radiator flusher bottles and add distilled water in the first process? Like you I'd like to do atleast 3 flushes in mine.
Thank you! Very informative video! I'm always cautious in doing new things especially with my car but It was $145 for a flush. So it seems simple enough process for me.
1) Yes. With the heater on, the coolant circulates throughout the whole system.
2) No, you add approximately what is drained (~5qt at a time). Everything you perform a flush, you are diluting the coolant with distilled water.
3)Possibly. However, I recommend following the directions on the Coolant Cleaners.
@mcgurrentertainment Thank you so much for the response and making is so easy! :) have a blessed day
At what point do you recommend to flush and change? I did addition one time when it's low and it was about 2 years from new.
A full flush would be required if the vehicle has been neglected for a substantial amount of time or the coolant is contaminated.
But if the vehicle is new, a simple change should be sufficient every 60 months.
@@mcgurrentertainment thank you🙏🙏
Did you turn the drain plug clockwise or counterclockwise. Mine is stripped. I’m going counterclockwise
You're upside down. Lefty loosey is clockwise when upside down.
Have a 2016 Altima 2.5 cvt-
Radiator fans won’t turn off- except when car is off. They come on full speed when the cars cool when it’s up to temperature all the heating air conditioning controls off it’s very strange. Maybe you’ve heard of this any thoughts?
Hard to say without troubleshooting. Could be thermostat, broken relay, faulty temp sensor...
Can I still use a 50/50 coolant even if there is some distilled water left system after the flush? or would that make it too diluted
If you're filling the system with ~5qt of 50/50 Coolant Mix, it's going to give to a ~21% coolant to water ratio. By the recommended ratio, this is too diluted and may be susceptible to freezing. However, if you're located in a very warm/hot climate (year round), then this may be acceptable.
You didn't add more distilled water mixed with the concentrate coolant?
The system contains the distilled water needed for the correct ratio.
I'm not sure I follow. You added distilled water to the reservoir, but not the radiator. Is the radiator concentrate only????@@mcgurrentertainment
Step 15 (9:12) we added coolant concentrate and water. And yes, the final refill in the radiator was coolant concentrate only since some of the system contains distilled water.
OK, thank you. One more question....About how many gallons of distilled water does it take to do this? And I'm assuming that when you drain it each time, not everything comes out and what water remains gives you the correct ratio. @@mcgurrentertainment
Correct. It depends on the amount of flushes you do. If I recall, I think I used 5 gallons for the video
Mine doesn’t have a screw it’s more of a plastic button with a hole in the middle
What's the year and trim?
Can you do this on a car that hasn't been running in a couple years?
Can't see why not
Do I really need to change the drain plug?, I don't find any for my car Nissan rogue 2016
Yes, you don't want to reuse plastic radiator drain plugs (per the service manual). When I was performing the flush, the OEM plug was starting to have damaged thread; creating a bad seal.
When I googled the Nissan Rogue, I found 2 sources for the drain plug (Part Number: 21440-5V000):
parts.nissanrva.com/p/89543998/21440-5V000.html
www.nissanpartsdeal.com/parts/nissan-cock-water-drai~21440-5v000.html
I recommend confirming with the vendor before ordering. Hope this helps.
Thank you, I manage to find one appreciate it. Just on think I'm confused why didn't you used the blue long life coolant recommended by Nissan.
A few minor reasons.
1. I wanted to provide a coolant that is compatible with a majority of vehicles. Making this video helpful to a wide range of individuals.
2. Prestone is a good name brand, and creating coolant is their specialty.
3. Price and Convenience
I feel like you didn’t let engine get hot enough to open the thermostat and dilute the coolant in the engine vs what is in the radiator.
Ok
So 5 quarts of coolant?
Yep
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You did all that work and put in probably the worst coolant you could.
Ok
hard way
Ok
You have a better way
@@markburton3010 yep less time don't need all that extra junk used in video and have no issues aftewards
This job should take no more than a half hour total. You can literally just take a hose and flush it out. This is 90% unnecessary. It’s completely unnecessary to heat up your engine with water in the system as well.
Ok
Distilled water is best. You do the water hose it’ll cause rust.
you're totally copying ChrisFix :P
Who?
Is there no bleeder for the cooling system?
The service manual calls for a dealership specialty tool to vacuum the air. However, it was not worth the effort to acquire it.