have it flushed thoroughly with water and have green put in it. if the shop does it they will probly not do that good a job and they will use tap water. if i were you i would do it myself and use distilled

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Actually you may want to consider flushing it yourself and using MB type coolant. Or Prestone has that yellow stuff out that is supposed to be decent. Just flush it every 2-3 years and you won't have a problem.

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Also the green stuff doesn't appear to be very friendly to the plastic parts all the newer Benzs use....can't explain why..it just is.

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Orange is a bad color for antifreeze IMHO . It can help hide a rusting problem. IF you have ever seen an engine with rust in the cooling system you'll know what I mean.

antifreeze should be yellow green or blue.

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New MB's use blue coolant actually. It is supposed to last for a long long time.

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