Hey Everyone,

After reading about a lot of problems with overheating, I was wondering if anyone uses Water Wetter anymore? I also saw that Royal Purple has a new coolant additive called Purple Ice. Has anyone used them and how is your car running afterward?

I have only used Water Wetter in 1 vehicle and haven't thought about it since then.

Thanks!

 

I used water wetter in my Porsche, no problems, cant really say though if it helped temps at all, so like you I am curious if this stuff works on the Mini

 

Been running Water Wetter for years with no issues. Does it work, yes. How much better than just coolant, unknown. But my scangauge tells me that I don't have any issues of running to hot.

 

I never ran hot or overheated. Never used Water Wetter. One time the thermostat broke and was jammed open, was over-cooling the car.

 

I use it, but I'm down in this Florida heat. Inconstantly monitor my scangauge and quite Frankly I think 222 degrees is the highest temp I've seen. Most of the time I see average temps around 188, and even in this heat I rarely see it get in the high 200's. It's not a necessity, but it sure doesn't hurt anything.

 

My scanguage reads about 193 doing 70 with outside air temps in the 90s, in traffic it gets to 200, I will try a bottle of the royal purple and see if I get any change

 

My car doesn't build the heat as bad on track after I started using it. Be sure to use 50/50 types of antifreeze or straight water though. It works with water not antifreeze... 2cents

 

I can't wait to be down in the Southern "heat" again. We lived in Savannah, GA, for a while, then moved back to Illinois. We are looking within 3 years to move back to Georgia or Florida, after I finish my college.

Thanks for all the input! I'm looking forward to your Scangauge readings, NightFlyR.

minimarks,

I thought that was a bit crazy. It showed on the Water Wetter bottle that with just plain water it worked better than antifreeze or the 50/50 mix. I wish we didn't have winter up here and I would just run water year round.

 

Water is the best coolant medium there is, unfortunately it is corrosive and freezes up. Thus the development of anti-freeze/coolant.

 

Exactly, it works best with pure water but for a daily driver you might want to keep some antifreeze in it to protect the cooling system and of course in the winter months for the obvious. With the 50/50 you have half water so it works some. If your talking a race car you can run straight water with a wetter because your going to flush it often...... 2 cents

 

I use Water Wetter in all my cars ! 100 % Great Product !

I put it in the Mini S after I changed the Coolant, and it also helps keep the
water pump happier. . . . . .

 

Issues with overheating? I am not familiar with them, maybe somone cares to enlighten me. If you are overheating the car you are:
-having issues with the cooling system (low coolant level or coolant leak, busted head gasket, wrong coolant, too much coolant and too little water)
-beating on the car relentlessly in hot weather and need to ease off
Water wetter will not help you in any of these 2 conditions.
In stock form the car has been set up to handle driving conditions ranging from Antarctica to Sahara. At least that is what I would expect from someone like BMW.

 

I used to use Water Wetter in everything but have changed my mind.
It seemed to help in my Z32 300ZX but I have not seen a difference in any car after that.
I have started saving the $10 and using a ScanGuage II to monitor the water temps better.

 

I honestly think they all work about the same. I use hy-per lube super coolant in all my cars and it seems to have some effect. Just thought i'd throw another option out there.

 

I have tested and proven that Water Wetter works on our racing kart engines. It is also a corrosion inhibitor when running just water in your system for the race track.

 

Water Wetter and similar products won't do much of anything to lower the overall temperature of the coolant in street-driven cars.

If there's nothing wrong with your cooling system, the overall temperature of the coolant is determined solely by your coolant thermostat rating. If the coolant temperature is below the thermostat rating, the thermostat closes, keeping the coolant inside the engine block. As the temperature rises to the thermostat rating, the thermostat opens up and allows the coolant to flow through the radiator, cooling it off again.

Water Wetter is most useful in race cars that don't have a thermostat, or when the sanctioning body doesn't allow conventional coolant to be used, because a leak on the track (like from a wreck) dumps slippery coolant all over the place. That's when you would use pure water for its cooling ability along with Water Wetter for corrosion protection.

Water Wetter may help if your overall coolant temperature is fine, but you have some "hot spots" in the cylinder head caused by air bubbles sticking to the walls of the coolant passages. These hot spots can cause engine pinging. In that case, the Water Wetter will reduce the surface tension of the coolant to keep the bubbles from forming.