Radiator trouble

[High Five H2]

subbed - also props to Ravi for posting here.

 

[justin94tt]

I have nothing bad to say about Ravi or his company. I have spoken with him directly and his customer service is second to none.

 

[rascole]

Thanks Ravi. Says a lot when a manufacture takes the time out to address the forum on a personal level. I have the CSF radiator in mine and am happy with it.
nj3talpha, hope you look deeper into other possible problems, better to catch them now instead of band-aiding the problem. Try putting on a radiator cap with a PSI gauge, could help answer if it is over pressuring.

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[Mr_Rich]

My truck with the stock radiator did well on a cross country drive last summer including surviving 115 degrees across the Calif./ Ariz. desert. My truck is an M5 so less complication on cooling but I would definitely consider a CSF radiator in the future. Thanks for posting Ravi!

 

[650Hawk]

2A) CSF sells ~200 OEM replacement plastic/aluminum units p/ month of this model - There is a huge failure rate with the OEM unit, and we see this by our sales history every month. CSF defect rate is less than 2%.. For high performance, we're selling about 20 pieces p/ month, with a defect rate similar at around ~2-3%


3) This is one of CSF’s top 3 selling units - With over 200 sold p/ year - Undoubtedly, the CSF unit also has had failures because of the same issues that plague the OEM design, head gasket issues, and other failures caused by the mounting structure, vibration and other design flaws of the OEM radiator installation.

Definitely nice to have a manufacturer come on and address concerns. I have to ask though; are you really selling 200 H3 radiators every month? Or is that 200 per year (you say both in your post above). I have to assume, because of your price, that many people are apt to purchase either OEM or a cheaper version online, so if you are ALSO selling 200 per month, that seems to be an extraordinarily high number of H3 radiators going bad, considering that there were only 160,000 H3's sold in the US (although I don't know the numbers for other countries). 200 per year sounds more logical...Just curious.

 

[Ravi_CSF]

Definitely nice to have a manufacturer come on and address concerns. I have to ask though; are you really selling 200 H3 radiators every month? Or is that 200 per year (you say both in your post). I have to assume, because of your price, that many people are apt to purchase either OEM or a cheaper version online, so if you are ALSO selling 200 per month, that seems to be an extraordinarily high number of H3 radiators going bad, considering that there were only 160,000 H3's sold in the US (although I don't know the numbers for other countries). Just curious.

~200 OEM replacement style radiator every month (this is the plastic / aluminum replacement).
~200+ high performance all-aluminum radiators every year, or ~15-25 p/ month.

Keep in mind that this radiator also fits Chevrolet Colorado as well as GMG Canyon - combined there are a lot of these on the road, and yes - the OEM design is flawed - we sell a lot of these.

Hope that this clears things up.

 

[650Hawk]

Aaaaahhhh....got it. That makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

 

[delta88]

My H3 went through 3 rads in under 85k/mi. OP should read up on this and test the coolant for exhaust gasses (bottom half of this article) http://www.autozone.com/repairinfo/...wTo&pageId= 0996b43f80a01231&subtitle=inspect