Several years ago, maybe 2016, we had a really cold snap in December or January and apparently they hadn't been treating the diesel as well as they should. Everybody I know was having trouble with gelled fuel. Fortunately I had a half gallon of power service in the grooming machine so I snagged that for our cars. My Jetta had it really bad, it took a long time to clear up. Angie's Golf was effected but cleared up with just a few ounces of juice.
Very quickly there was no anti-gel to be had in the state. A buddy was trucking to New Jersey for something so we got him to bring back a case of Power Service for the snowmobile club. Since then I've always kept a quart on hand... That reminds me, I need to treat the Tucker. I had terrible trouble with water in the fuel on that machine last year. It hasn't been cold enough yet to tell if this year will be a repeat. -Curt On Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 01:15:04 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Diesel is winterized at the distributor starting in about October I think. I don't know how cold it's good for but I've never had gelling with recently-purchased fuel at similar temps. Cars aren't affected by wind chill. Real ambient temp is what matters. On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, at 13:07, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > We are having sudden unprecedented cold here. It’s currently 1 and will > be about 2-3 all night till tomorrow. It’s -20 with windchill. Wife > took the truck to town a little while ago but it’s so cold I’m > wondering if the diesels should have received does diesel treatment, or > if there is a danger I’d fuel gelling. I didn’t even think about it > because we typically do not deal with that here. > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
