diesel maintenance questions
I'm considering the 2014 Ram 1500 diesel, but I've never had a diesel before. Besides pumping diesel into it instead of gasoline, what are the differences with maintenance and upkeep? What about the...
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Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
From what some say on here the very southern states do not have a winter blend. So if you were to fuel up in one of those states you could have an issue, if infact this is true.
Don
Not sure which are the very southern states, but I do know that diesel fuel needs and usually gets winterized based on expected area low temps. So you ought not be surprised fuel bought anywhere might be prone to gelling if moved a few hundred miles north. Around here, 10 is considered really cold, zero is brutal, and they start talking about records at 10 below. So when we drove our Jetta TDI to northern Ohio for Christmas with the family a few years ago, I made sure to start the trip with about 500 miles worth of fuel in the tank, and fill up adding a shot of anti-gel additive about 40 miles before we got there so it would have a chance to mix. Next morning at 33 below she fired right up and ran like a train in spite of being 400 plus miles north of home.
