Hello,
I took a drive up to VT this weekend. The weather was about 0 degrees overnight.
The Jetta started fine, but 10 minutes down the road it started to quit on me.
I tried to start it a couple of times from there.
My initial reaction was to change the fuel filter, as I thought the filter was dirty. The car has 13k on it.
So I changed the filter (super easy) and the car started and ran for another 10 minutes. Then it died. As this took place it started to get a bit warmer.
So I finally got the car started and when I did, I just kept the car at 3k to warm her up.
The car ran great and I headed to fill up the car with some fresh diesel and add some anti-gel to the tank. I added hett anti-get fluid. The tank was originally at half.
Car runs great now.
So I guess the pump were I got the fuel from (northern NJ) did not provide a winter blend.
Any insight to this? I don't want it to happen again. Now I carry a spare anti-gel bottle.
Thanks,
Mark
I took a drive up to VT this weekend. The weather was about 0 degrees overnight.
The Jetta started fine, but 10 minutes down the road it started to quit on me.
I tried to start it a couple of times from there.
My initial reaction was to change the fuel filter, as I thought the filter was dirty. The car has 13k on it.
So I changed the filter (super easy) and the car started and ran for another 10 minutes. Then it died. As this took place it started to get a bit warmer.
So I finally got the car started and when I did, I just kept the car at 3k to warm her up.
The car ran great and I headed to fill up the car with some fresh diesel and add some anti-gel to the tank. I added hett anti-get fluid. The tank was originally at half.
Car runs great now.
So I guess the pump were I got the fuel from (northern NJ) did not provide a winter blend.
Any insight to this? I don't want it to happen again. Now I carry a spare anti-gel bottle.
Thanks,
Mark
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