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Weather any storm with the right antifreeze and coolant

Weather any storm with the right antifreeze and coolant

  • Vehicle Maintenance
  • PEAK
  • July 11, 2022

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As a member of both the #PEAKsquad and the Business Development department at Hemmings, Melanie Barsness knows how to keep her cool, no matter what she has to weather. She keeps her family running around their hometown of Las Vegas in style with her 2019 Lexus SUV, but she does it with as little drama as possible by making sure it’s always topped off with the right coolant.

Las Vegas summers can reach temperatures well north of 100 degrees and those desert nights can dip to low temperatures that would surprise anyone who doesn’t live in them. As a military family, Mel finds herself taking care of her household for long stretches while her husband is called to duty, so she relies on her Lexus to be the last thing she has to worry about while she’s running errands, dropping off the kidlet at school or practice or play dates, dinners out, friends in and everything in between.

Even a modern-day SUV with a few miles on it needs some attention now and then. Lexus, as the luxury nameplate of the Toyota family of cars and trucks, has that famous Japanese reliability and quality fit and finish built into every model, but that doesn’t mean regular maintenance can be ignored. Regular drivetrain fluid changes are necessary, but desert life definitely puts an engine’s cooling system to the test. And Mel knows that the extra heat under the hood that the air-conditioning system adds only keeps her and her priceless cargo from overheating if it’s got the right coolant for the job. PEAK’s Original Equipment Technology™ Antifreeze + Coolant is designed expressly for her SUV and everything she demands of it:

  • Warranty Coverage: Mel expects her Lexus to last well past the factory warranty and she puts it to the test every day. She only uses PEAK’s pre-diluted Original Equipment Technology™ Antifreeze + Coolant, which matches the vehicle manufactures technology and color requirements while providing guaranteed service life protection of up to 5 years/150,000 miles with a complete flush and fill.

 

  • Color-coded with Inhibitors specifically for Mel’s Lexus: Mix water with metal and sooner or later, rust can form. Scale inhibitors make sure that corrosion and flakey, “scale” rust won’t form in all the channels of your radiator as liquid circulates through it. PEAK’s OET Antifreeze + Coolant’s high-quality organic acid corrosion inhibitors are free of borate, nitrite, silicate and amines chemicals, so it meets the performance requirements of ASTM D3306 and JIS K2234 as recommend by Lexus for Melanie’s worry-free commute.

 

  • Specific fit: Mel’s 2019 Lexus RX is a precision machine designed so that she never has to worry about the engine keeping its temperature regulated. And PEAK has designed its Original Equipment Technology™ Antifreeze + Coolant specifically for any Asian import requiring RED or PINK phosphate-enhanced organic acid technology extended-life coolant. That’s a mouthful, but it means that she can top off her SUV’s cooling system with PEAK’s OET prediluted antifreeze and rest assured that it’s the right liquid for the job.

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