Does the Idea of a combo Radiator/Oil Cooler seam like a GREAT IDEA???

[riefdaddy]

Personally, I'm not sold on combo coolers like that. When they work, great, but if you get a pinhole between tanks life is no bueno. I only say this with experience of radiator/trans coolers and what happens when the wall separating the two fails. I had too many friends (3) experience this with Xterras to ever want to chance it on any car. All three had their cars totaled as the transmission and the engine in each were destroyed. It may have been a bad design, I don't know. I also realize this is about oil and coolant, not automatic transmission fluid and coolant, but the principle is the same. I prefer to keep things that shouldn't mix in separate spaces with limited possibilities of failure. YMMV