[Quote=”Edukator”]Better chance of it starting than a diesel below -20. I’ve only ever owned one diesel and learned to park it facing downhill with a clear run out of the resort. When it’s really cold the recovery truck does great business – with diesels.[/quote]Funnily enough, in a country which actually knows about these things, sales of tinny, badly made, French rust buckets are pretty much in single figures. As in actual sales.
And diesels start first time everytime.
My record is 42 degrees below zero. -30 is pretty much every year, once or twice. -20 is for about a month or 6 weeks……
Seriously, I’d take a diesel with a filter heater (pretty much standard across Europe since the late 90s) and a battery with some proper grunt (even when cold) over petrol, a cold battery specced for an AX and French electrics from the 80s.
And no. Is not my fault the French are too daft to fill up with winter diesel before going somewhere cold.