What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

Thanks! I always use distilled, but they only had drinking water. Luckily, not much leaked out, so I didn't have to add any. I mostly bought the water "just in case" for the drive home. I also drained the entire system, because if you're interested in learning how stupid I am, I neglected to refresh the radiator hoses when I bought the car. The lower has a date stamp of 11/18/85. At least I think that's a date stamp. Either way, the car sat for 20 years before I bought it, so the hoses are at least 20 years old. I'm gonna go buy a lottery ticket, because I'm darn lucky this hose didn't burst on the interstate.
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Cool just wanted to make sure, I see lots of people with cooling system issues using tap or drinking water and it makes me go "NOOooooo!!" lol.

No joke I bet those circa-1985 hoses are better quality than new ones you get. Even Gates hoses will swell up and get soft after not too long. You should definitely still replace them but don't be surprised if you need to replace them AGAIN in a few years. Buncha BS I can't stand it, everything is junk these days.