Help keep your hot-hatch cool with the Mishimoto Performance Aluminum Radiator designed for the 2015+ Audi and Volkswagen MQB platform. This includes the GTI, Golf, Golf R, Audi A3, S3, and TT. 

The stock radiator is adequate for daily driving in any iteration of the Golf and other MQB related cousins. The design struggles to keep up when under more harsh conditions. The thin core coupled with the plastic end tanks also sew the seeds of future cracks and leaks as the vehicle ages.

Starting with a full aluminum construction. From the mounting points to the inlet and outlet, the aluminum end tanks are sure to endure the test of time. Complete with precision TIG-welding to our core, the Mishimoto design is significantly less prone to leaks later down the road. To further increase their design's strength, they incorporated struts into the core's coolant tubes, making this radiator much more resistant to twisting and flexing and effectively reducing the risk of a damaged core to nearly zero.

Durability wasn't the only improvement on their mind, and they wanted to ensure a more efficient coolant temperature regulation for the EA888 engine. To do so, they expanded the core to 1.65", along with precision adjustments to the fin design resulting in a 56% increase in core volume and 76% bump in external fin surface area. Combined with their 4.5mm fin height and louvered fin technology, this radiator is capable of reducing global coolant temperatures for a consistently cool hot-hatch.

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