hello volvo forum. I have to put new coolant in because the one that is already in there from when i brought the car a few months ago is different from the one i bought now. the one that is in there is like a brownish green color and the one i have from o'reilly is blue. now a repair shop will do this for $50 but i heard it wasnt hard to do so i figured i could try and do it myself. does anyone know where the flush plug is? how does it look or if anyone has a picture of how it looks? and also after it is flushed do i just run a water hose down it until it's clear? how do i conclude after pouring coolant in? thanks for any help.

 

Hi and welcome to the forum.

It sounds like maybe you should pay the $50. Other than that, I don't know of any car that has a "flush plug". The radiator has a drain and the block has a drain. If you drain both you will get maybe 80% of the coolant out. Then you should put the distilled water and/or the flush fluid in and run the car for a few minutes. Drain that out, fill and drain 2 or 3 more times with distilled water. Then finally fill with your coolant.

What type of coolant did you get? What does the bottle say?

 

I have Pentosin Pentofrost NF (G11) Coolant. 1.5L bottle.

 

Volvos DO HAVE Flush plugs, the B230s have them on the pass side half way up in the block... Hard to do a decent flush without flushing the block.
As far as that 960, you should read this:960 Information