Winter cold starts are not only hard on your engine, they can feel brutal for shivering passengers. Some days, the heater can’t start blowing warm air soon enough. AMSOIL DOMINATOR Coolant Boost offers a solution that helps warm your vehicle faster on cold days – while also lowering engine operating temperatures and improving overall engine performance.
How It Works
DOMINATOR Coolant Boost is formulated with three surfactants to provide consistent performance from cold to hot temperature extremes. Our proprietary tiered-surfactant technology reduces the surface tension of water and antifreeze throughout a wide temperature range to allow better contact with metal surfaces. That contact improves heat transfer, which in turn helps transfer heat away from hot engine parts. The result? Your vehicle warms up an average of 54% faster, ensuring a more comfortable cabin and faster defrost on frosty mornings.
Key Benefits
- Faster warm-ups: By reducing the time it takes for your engine to reach operating temperature, DOMINATOR Coolant Boost helps you get on the road quicker and more comfortably.
- Enhanced heat transfer: The product reduces engine operating temperatures by up to 25°F (14°C), improving efficiency and preventing overheating.
- Corrosion protection: It safeguards your cooling system against corrosion, extending the life of critical components like radiators and water pumps.
- Versatility: Compatible with all water sources including distilled, bottled or tap, and is safe for use with antifreeze mixes. It’s a flexible solution for various vehicles and conditions.
Everyday to Raceday
AMSOIL includes three tiers of surfactants to provide consistent performance in cold or hot temperature extremes. Each are optimized for different temperature ranges to help warm your vehicle up quicker on cold days and lower engine operating temperatures during extreme use, enhancing vehicle longevity and performance. That’s why DOMINATOR Coolant Boost is a reliable choice for everyone – from everyday to high-performance drivers.
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Video transcript: How to Help Warm Up Your Vehicle Faster
Featuring AMSOIL Director of Product Marketing Len Groom.
Editor’s note: The current AMSOIL claim (data bulletin G2785) is that DOMINATOR Coolant Boost helps vehicles warm up an average of 54% faster and reduces engine temperatures up to 25°F (13.8°C). The 49% figure below reflects a shorter warm-up range in the same test.
Len Groom: Welcome to Tech Tips. I’m Len Groom. Today we’re talking about AMSOIL DOMINATOR Coolant Boost. Now, Coolant Boost, when you think about it, is something you’d put in your cooling system to help reduce operating temperatures.
That’s what you see many of these different additives advertised as. We want to reduce your operating temperature. But what about cold weather? What about warming your vehicle up faster?
AMSOIL ran some testing to take a look at both of these different areas. How can we help reduce the engine’s operating temperature, and how can we help warm it up faster? Believe it or not, those two things relate. Let’s check it out.
AMSOIL DOMINATOR Coolant Boost utilizes a proprietary tiered-surfactant technology. Now, that’s a mouthful. But, really, all a surfactant does is it reduces the surface tension of water and antifreeze, and it allows better contact with a metal surface. This closer contact, it increases the coolant’s efficiency.
And remember the coolant is in charge of transferring the heat away from hot engine parts. Many leading coolant additives contain just one surfactant, and that means that their temperature range of effectiveness is very limited. AMSOIL’s DOMINATOR Coolant Boost uses a tiered-surfactant technology. Surfactants are temperature sensitive, and each one of them has a very specific operating range.
Take a look at this graphic. Graphic A illustrates the operating range of the DOMINATOR Coolant Boost. As you can see, it’s broken into three tiers. Tier 1 is your low temperatures.
This would be your cold startup of your engine. Tier 2 would be a medium temperature or your transition tier. That means that the engine is starting to warm up and approach operating temperature. Tier 3 is your high temperature.
This is racing temperatures. This is hot, busy, traffic-jam type of temperatures that your vehicle is going to see. Coolant Boost is capable of providing this increased efficiency all the way across all of these different temperature bands indicated here. At AMSOIL, we test everything.
And Graphic B outlines the results of a test we ran in our mechanical test facility. Generally, when your antifreeze reaches 120 degrees, you feel heat coming from the defroster. We tested the time it took to run the coolant from 30 degrees to 120 degrees, and you can see the results here. Coolant without Coolant Boost took 6.3 minutes.
Coolant treated with Coolant Boost only took 3.2 minutes to get to 120 degrees. That’s a 49 percent improvement over untreated antifreeze. Now, we talked about tiered surfactants. So the temperature to run from 30 to 180 in an untreated system was 11.4 minutes.
When we treated it with Coolant Boost, it reduced that time down to 5.3 minutes. That’s a 54 percent improvement in warm-up time. So there you have it. The results clearly show that Coolant Boost has your system protected from cold startup all the way up to extreme operating environments.
For more information on this test, check out the link below. Thanks for watching. We’ll see you next time.
This article is part of our Battery and Cooling System Care guide. See every article in the guide.
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Brad Nelson is an AMSOIL Technical Writer II who develops content about lubricant technology, product performance and vehicle maintenance. He works with engineers and product specialists to translate testing, application requirements and approved performance claims into clear customer guidance. Nelson’s work includes AMSOIL Blog articles, AMSOIL Magazine features and technical explanations concerning motor oils, gear lubricants, vehicle systems and maintenance practices.
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