RE: Oil Vs Antifreeze in struts

[tom.murphy@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hello BMW Experts!       I was soo happy to see two posts
on this subject!
    Thi says on this topic:
>My thought is this:
>what harm, if any, does the oil do if used?
>You have heat transfer with oil.
>Will the damping be affected by too much cooling?
>Will they drop down to near freezing?  Will ice
>form on your struts?  Maybe we could run cooling ducts
>to the brakes from the strut then.  Okay, this is silly. *SLAP*
>Thanks, I needed that.
>Use oil, there's no downside.  Unless you spill it.
     The only downside I can think of is that oil and water
don't mix, so if water was left in, or got in, it might make
some rust.
     The up-side to antifreeze (as I see it), is that it mixes
with water, and it is optimized for heat transfer and for anti-
corrosion.  Conversely, I would think oil would be optimized for
lubrication.                  Murf (splitting hairs?)

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