I’ve always preferred the cold over the heat, but for some reason I can’t seem to stay away from the desert.
It’s neat to see how vehicles respond to treacherous weather conditions—like a diesel barely wanting to turn over in the winter to a diesel wishing its intake temperatures weren’t 170 degrees. My truck’s gone from 0-degree winters to 80-degree ones, and 90-degree summers to sweltering 110+ degree meltdowns (rendering my glow plugs absolutely useless).
I wonder which weather conditions are harder on an oil burner...
True, sub-zero degree startups can be catastrophic and harmful, but so can taxing a cooling system day in and day out, all while sucking large amounts of PM10 (coarse air particles—dust) into your engine on a regular basis.
-One aspect of desert living that I find downright funny is the fact that folks start their trucks in the morning and run the air conditioning full blast while they eat breakfast and drink coffee inside. Maybe I find it funny because where I grew up we did the same thing in a very different way: it would be winter, and we would blast our trucks heaters until we felt ready enough to bare the elements in a half-warm vehicle.