Will a little piece of plastic inside the radiator damage the it?
While I was putting coolant inside the rad after flushing it, a tiny piece of plastic from the coolant container fell inside. I tried making it float by putting in more coolant but it just disappeared. The plastic is the size of a pencil eraser, I don’t really want to remove all the fresh coolant and repeat the process again.
So my question is, is it ok if I just leave that piece of plastic inside the rad? I flush the cooling system once every two years, so can I just remove that piece of plastic after 2 years?
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To be more accurate the plastic that fell inside might be 1/2 an inch or even less in diameter.
To my knowledge if something is stuck or
floating in rad hoses it blocks and also disturbs the turbulence of the flow of the coolant. It effects the whole cooling process and obviosly ur engine performace will be down. So its better to get rid of that plastic
You’re probably fine. It’s probably just chillin at the top of the radiator
Hmm well fck it. I’ll take it out after 2 years. The car didn’t overheat nor did the temp guage fluctuate when I used it.