1997 Chevrolet Cavalier Owner's Manual - Page 225

A CAUTION: Adding only plainwater to your cooling system can be dangerous. Plain water, or some other liquid like alcohol,can boil before the proper coolant mixwill. Your vehicle's coolant warning system isset for the proper coolant mix. With plain water or the wrong mix, your engine could get toohot but you wouldn't getthe overheat warning, Your engine couldcatch fire and you or others could beburned. Use a 50/50 mix of clean water and DEX-COOL@coolant. NOTICE: In cold weather,water can freeze and crack the engine, radiator, heater core and other parts. So use the recommended coolant. A CAUTION: You can be burned if you spill coolant on hot engine parts. Coolant contains ethylene glycol and it will burn if the engine parts are hot enough. Don't spill coolant a hot engine. on