2000 Cadillac Catera Owners Manual

CAUTION:Adding only plain water to your cooling systemcan be dangerous. Plain water, or some otherliquid like alcohol, can boil before the propercoolant mixture will. Your vehicle’s coolantwarning system is set for the proper coolantmixture. With plain water or the wrong mixture,your engine could get too hot but you wouldn’tget the overheat warning. Your engine couldcatch fire and you or others could be burned.Use a 50/50 mixture of clean, drinkable waterand DEX-COOL coolant.NOTICE:In cold weather, water can freeze and crack theengine, radiator, heater core and other parts.So use the recommended coolant.CAUTION:You can be burned if you spill coolant on hotengine parts. Coolant contains ethylene glycoland it will burn if the engine parts are hotenough. Don’t spill coolant on a hot engine.5-16