Cold weather and diesel advice
So just picked up a new 2019 3500 SRW diesel on Friday. I grew up around cars, my dad is a GM mechanic, but know nothing about diesels. Does anyone have any advice as far as fuel treatments for sum...
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To summarize 4 pages of theories and clear out the “personal beliefs”. Diesel fuel is generally blended for the climate in which it is sold. And down to the mean low temperatures of that climate, it is good, with zero assistance from the consumer.
If conditions fall outside those, I’ll call them 90th percentile “conditions” then care or action should be taken by the consumer.
In other words, I could go to the interior of Alaska right now and fill my truck at the pump and let it sit in -40 and the fuel will generally not gel. Or I could fill up in Phoenix AZ and if I drove straight to the Rockies on the same tank and it was below zero there, the fuel would generally gel up.
Not imposing my theories. I’ve just literally run diesel trucks and equipment in every climate on this continent in the last 25 years and speak form experience not conjecture.
If conditions fall outside those, I’ll call them 90th percentile “conditions” then care or action should be taken by the consumer.
In other words, I could go to the interior of Alaska right now and fill my truck at the pump and let it sit in -40 and the fuel will generally not gel. Or I could fill up in Phoenix AZ and if I drove straight to the Rockies on the same tank and it was below zero there, the fuel would generally gel up.
Not imposing my theories. I’ve just literally run diesel trucks and equipment in every climate on this continent in the last 25 years and speak form experience not conjecture.
