Engine radiator MISHIMOTO or Nissens

Exact thing happened to me last year. Replaced with a Mishimoto

i am dealing with radiator business in Turkey, and all i can say is Nissens is good brand. And fins will be okay, i cant see any major damage, but need to make sure check for the leak.

That’s exactly where my OEM radiator started leaking, luckily it was very visible, I strongly recommend changing the radiator, I got Nissens and it’s been working great so far it came highly recommended by my mechanic

I put a nissens radiator off Amazon in mine 3 years and 80,000 kilometers ago and its held up. Multiple cross country trips with it.

Mishimoto oem replacement is cheap dependable and lifetime warranty.

They're fine. They're one step above oem imo

I ran one for 6 years half of which being turbo. The mounts are known to fail so you want to make your own or keep an eye on them. Both sides failed on mine but Mishimoto’s customer service is top tier and they sent me a brand new unit (whole radiator NIB even though only mounts failed) no questions asked. The drain plug is also known to snap if you over tighten it. Again, they sent me a brand new unit when that happened.

The ~2014 Nissens, with the 15 round tube design just doesn't cut it. From what I can tell the car would've come with the 30 flat tube design. The Nissens just doesn't have enough surface area. On a hot day, with the AC going and highway speeds it just couldn't keep up.

my car's radiator is $200 for an underperforming Nissens radiator.

I have one in my turbo VVT build. It’s big but seems inefficient, to the point that I suspect a properly designed crossflow radiator would shed much more heat by letting the coolant spend a proper amount of time in the radiator as opposed to this giant heat-sink top down tank. It’s on my list of things to replace.