Engine radiator VALEO or Nissens

me and some E39 buds here in the Netherlands have great experience with nissens. It's a pretty good package all around and had a copper core instead of alu.

I had an early failure of a Nissens and have switched to a cheap all aluminum unit, which is working well for me.

I use nissens brand rad (Danish manufacturer) and so far so good.

I replaced my radiator several times, always due to corrosion at the bottom edge where brine accumulates. Last time I replaced it for Valeo and for sure it had same design as your "new", which is a stamped aluminium sheets stuck on cylindrical piping. So far so good.

I recently replaced the radiator on my MK1 TT. After getting the old, leaky radiator out of the car, I compared it with the new one and was surprised at just how different the core designs were!

I ordered the Nissen Radiator from Rock Auto for around $70 including shipping and ill go from there im planning on fixing it this weekend so ill keep updating

Bought a nissens radiator and also an ebay fan shroud with dual 12 inch fans. The oem fan draws a lot of current snd it burned out the plug so I decided to change out. The shroud fits right over the core.

Worked well on my Valeo radiator, let it soak 10 min and a lot of very brown water came out. No leaks, cools better.

I imagine, if done right it could be stronger than original. But unless it's a really good radiator, I'd replace it with one of those $70 nissens.

Don’t use that shitty Nissens radiator. That always leaks, ended up returning mine.