H AVE you put antifreeze in your vehicles in preparation for
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this winter yet? If you have, you're out of date. What you should have put in, according to the British Standards Institution, is something called "Engine coolant concentrate" or FCC. ECC as defined by the new standard BS 6580 does all sorts of other things like inhibiting corrosion, boiling and
freezing.
So complex is EGG now that it has its own 10-section standard (1355117) which covers methods of test to ensure that it's the right stuff after all, and not Austrian wine. I find all this very laudable, hut a little bit worrying. After all, if I'm not allowed to call antifreeze "antifreeze" any more, how long will it be before I have to refer to oil as Cooling, Washing, Corrosion-Inhibiting Lubricant, or COWC011. for short? I defy Castro] to engineer Ihat into anything attractive . . .
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