Coolant type for 2022

as far as coolant smell this is common...I have a 24 year old Camaro SS that has always had an antifreez smell after being driven when I raise the hood, which I do every time I shut the car off to let the heat build up from the engine escape because the car is always garaged when not driven, and as well I'll smell it because the car is in a garage where as if it was outside I more then likely won't smell it because being outside with things like winds...my car has never leaked antifreeze on the ground or internally in the engine, and I change it every 5 to 6 years because that's what the manufacture recommends, and my engine is mostly an all aluminum LS1 engine.

the Hyundai Venue's antifreeze is good for 200,000 kilometers or 120 months/ 10 years...the time of year will make a bit of a difference in your over flow bottle level, usually higher in the summer months...if you think something is wrong with the levels, go to the dealership and they will either tell you all is ok or do what ever is necessary to either fix or just add to your car...the wrong grade and type of antifreeze will really screw up your car because of things like aluminum and other materials the antifreeze touches.

right now it's 2 degrees above 0 Celsius where I live and the engine is stone cold and my over flow bottle has plenty of antifreeze in it and where it should be...my bottle has 3 lines with the lowest about 3 to 4 inches up from the bottom of the bottle and the antifreeze is a good inch above the lowest mark in the cold...this is where it's always been at this time of year and I now have 8770 kilometers on the car.

better safe then sorry, go to the dealership to let them look at you car because it's still under warranty and it will give peace of mind as well.

mayo said:

So I have topped off my coolant about 3 times in the two years I have owned the venue.
Went down to local autozone for a bottle of 50/50 pink antifreeze to do so.
After speaking with a tech at the dealership, I have come to the conclusion that it is an evaporation issue inherent to the venue…now confirmed by all you guys.lol
No big deal guys, just throw a cup into the overflow with the engine cold from time to time and you’re good.
The venue is not the first or the last auto to have this condition, just make sure you don’t have a leak anywhere.

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more than likely any evaporating is from the ingredients now used by the manufactures to make the antifreeze last for the 10 years, and as well radiators have changed a lot since the pre 1990's...my 24 year old Camaro is still on it's original rad as was my previous 20 year old daily driver...gone are the "good old days" of replacing rads or re-coring them...in the past I've done all that and as well a heater cor...as well many of us used the "mechanic in a bottle" of various additives and stop leak stuff which were really a stop gap till we replaced or repair what was leaking...many other things like water pumps and the hoses and the gaskets besides the engine are all affected by the coolant in our cars and that's another reason to use the right stuff in our modern vehicles.

a few years ago a company came out with a water less antifreeze and I remember Jay Leno started to replace the antifreeze in all his vehicles with this new stuff, and his vehicles had various cooling systems and metals etc.

I suspect there has been environment changes in the coolants as well...here are 2 pictures of my over flow bottle this morning with the outside temp. a 2 degrees Celsius above 0 degrees and the one picture has the 3 level lines and I'm sure the top one is the full one.

one important thing to know when you buy antifreeze for your Venue is that what comes with the Venue is good for 120 months or 10 years...I just checked a Canadian auto parts in my town which is NAPA and this is what it says...NAPA Supreme Antifreeze/Coolant provides up to 250,000 km or 5 years service life as inital factory fill.

I checked Rock Auto and they have a Prestone that is....Designed to last and protect vital engine parts for 10 years/300,000 miles.

now maybe if I went to an auto parts store I could probably order an antifreeze that would have the same life span as the Hyundai antifreeze that comes with our vehicles.

what I'm posting here is just me going on line to see if I can get an antifreeze for a 2022 Venue, so as you can see there's antifreeze that's supposed to be for our Venues but one is only good for half of the life of what comes from the factory and the one from Rock has the same life expectancy as our factory antifreeze...so what we have to do is make sure what we get is equivalent to what we have from the factory in every way.

over the years of buying auto parts, many of the parts such as wheel bearings that I had to replaced on my last daily driver are made in China and they only last maybe a year or two, where as if I want to get better ones, I could get those that were made either in Canada or the US and of course they cost more, so I'm just pointing out, buyer beware.