Funny Coolant colour - 1 year old Mustang

Hi Guys

Can you please give me some advice. I had my first service on my 2015 mustang GT in January since then I have noticed my coolant has started to go a watery milky brown cooler (I think it was pink before) i…..I’m worried as looking around the web, people are saying it could be the head gasket which is not good at all?

Could you please have a look at the pic below and let me know if I worrying for nothing or do I need to get it into the garage quickly.

Thanks in advance. Alan

just quickly to check take oil fill cap off and run your finger around the inside under the lip edge of where the cap goes in.
does it come out looking like brown cottage cheese ?

Get that looked at ASAP. Get Ford to arrange recovery from your Ford assist. To be on the safe side ;)

That ain't right for sure! Back to Ford ASAP if it were mine.

That does NOT look good :(

Sorry to see this.....I'd definitely get onto your dealer ASAP. Good luck....and keep us posted.

That's sure as heck not right... maybe another faulty oil cooler like [MENTION=13598]Gibbo205[/MENTION] had, or worse... Get ford on the hook for it asap.

Speaking of which, i'll check my coolant when I get home.

The oil side look all clean. But will book it in. Thanks guys

Looks like water and oil mixing. Suffice to say, that ain't kosher. Good just be the beginning of a major problem.

Thanks guys for your help , Ford assist are on there way....... Stressed !!!!

Probably another leaky oil cooler.

Seen a few times on the forum now.

alan27 said:

Thanks guys for your help , Ford assist are on there way....... Stressed !!!!

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Don't stress it mate, you've got a bumper to bumper 60k mile/36 month warranty. Be firm on the level of courtesy car though if your Mustang is off the road for a while, try and get another Mustang or a RS.

Look like you've been brewing beer in there

If this is a cooler fault, which seems likely, is the replacement cooler upgraded to eliminate this from reoccurring??:shrug:

Thinking it might be worth fitting one to stop this from happening

Definitely worth swapping once the fault is diagnosed, those stock fish bowls look horrid

When I replaced mine and changed the coolant, according to the temp gauge, my car now runs cooler.

I've had a replacement oil cooler and that's the same colour tank as mine. I initially thought it was thought it was the head gasket, and so did the AA man.