Q: "check hybrid system"
My father looked and said there isn't any pink antifreeze and he read something about it needing to be hooked up to a machine.... but he said he may have read that wrong... could we just pour the pink antifreeze in the holder and it be ok?
My car has 119000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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