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My car has been using coolant and "milkshaking" for about 20,000ks and its pulling as hard as the day I got it modded! Still turns the tires at 100km/h hahaha My milkshake is visible in the rocker cover though so fairly terminal. I think I might have blown a head gasket when it sent it into limp mode about 2 years ago lol. I assumed these things had a rev limiter? OH WELL!!

Only issue is im pumping a couple of bottles into it each week :P

f*cking hates a cold start due to the oil being so rancid so the only real inconvenience is that I have to warm it up in the morning.

Im not really trying to kill the poor thing but I guess im not overly fussed about it as when it does go BANG, because I know it will, I have an excuse to throw more money at it!!

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I reckon the whole tailshaft thing was just a way of getting some money back for the gearbox they replaced. I would have demanded to see it and not paid until I did.

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My car has been using coolant and "milkshaking" for about 20,000ks and its pulling as hard as the day I got it modded! Still turns the tires at 100km/h hahaha My milkshake is visible in the rocker cover though so fairly terminal. I think I might have blown a head gasket when it sent it into limp mode about 2 years ago lol. I assumed these things had a rev limiter? OH WELL!!

Only issue is im pumping a couple of bottles into it each week :P

f*cking hates a cold start due to the oil being so rancid so the only real inconvenience is that I have to warm it up in the morning.

Im not really trying to kill the poor thing but I guess im not overly fussed about it as when it does go BANG, because I know it will, I have an excuse to throw more money at it!!

'Milkshaking' is affectionately used when your coolant mixes with your trans fluid and f*cks the trans (especially the ZF as it has the mechatronics unit within the box - coolant touches it and its borked). You end up seeing this milkshake in your coolant header tank.

Im surprised your motor's still going with that amount of coolant in your oil lol.

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Wingnut was referring to his engine oil being a milkshake, which is due to his head gasket failing.

I was just stating how the term 'milshake' on here being used more commonly when the auto trans heat exchanger fails internally.

Either way, Milkshakes are for bringing all the boys to the yard.

Not for Falcons.

Then again, if Wingnut had an auto with a dead head gasket, and then his heat exchanger died, his engine oil would have a oil/coolant/trans fluid mix.

Technicoloured lubrication.

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$1400 what a load of crap!!!!!!!!!! Im glad I have mates that work for ford so I dont get riped, very dissapointing to read

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