Just wondering if anyone knows of a decent service dept in San Antonio Area. Nothing major, just a 60,000 mile service. I don't trust anyone but coolant and tranny flush is something I don't wanna mess with. Just the disposal of coolant is a PITA.

 

If you haven't already, you might also try posting this in the Texas Chapter.

 

Ah yes, good idea. I'm new. Thanks.

 

Welcome to FTE!

 

Thanks. It's been great. Tons of good advice and convo!

 

Does anyone know where to dispose of coolant? I know autozone takes oil, but coolant isnt oil.

 

Ok, how do I find the Texas Chapter? HAHAHA. Not sure about the coolant disposal. The City of San Antonio takes it here for free, there are a few fire stations that have hazardous waste accumulation points. Maybe you could try that where you're at? It's still a pain for me to do it all though. It's hard to catch, then you have to transfer it from a mop bucket to the new empty coolant jugs etc.

 

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I've heard seaguls like coolant. Maybe I could kill two birds with one stone.. err jug..

 

Some parts stores take it. Most landfills have a way to dispose of it. Personally i just dump mine with the oil. When they recyle the oil they clean it of metal, atf, coolant, water, ect at the plant.

 

Ha. I spend a bunch of time down at the national seashore too, but as much as I dislike the little buggers sometimes I could never feed them coolant. My Husky would never let me live it down, less little varmits for her to chase the ENTIRE time we are down there. She dives off the Kayak scaring the heck out of all the fish trying to try to catch those damn things. I see you're an EMT, so if you work with the Fire Dept like they do here I bet the you can get someone at the FD maintenance dept to take it. I can take it on base but still don't wanna mess with it. Thanks for the Texas site!

 

Yeah.. that sounds like a terrible idea.. Nothing like contaminating a 500 gal load of oil..

My local dump does one every 3rd saturday.

 

Not really if you have seen the way the process used oil at the refinery. The same companies that pick it up from the parts stores pick it up from a lot of different shops, all different weights of oil. Then there is ATF, water, coolant, metal shavings, and other types of debris in all those tanks. They process the crap out of it and now they are selling it. If one person changes there oil after a blown head gasket then its contaminated anyways. Btw its much better then what a lot of counties and citys say "pour it down the sink, it wont hurt anything".

 

Well... if they filter out the coolant, then good...

Did anyone ever wonder where synthetic oil came from? Now you know.

 

blue bonnett ford in new braunfels did mine i have a 2000 f350 4x4 with 399000 mile
they did it with out taking the pan off and flushed it out

 

Do you like their service dept? I'll travel a bit and stay the night in a hotel if I have to just to get some decent people to work with that won't mess me around.