Hi Sulphur Diesel

Is High Sulphur Road Diesel still widely available in the UK■■?

No all diesel now has to have 10% bio fuel in it.
Bio diesel contains no sulpher.

OK thanks for that, as a matter of interest how long has it been like that

it’s been like that since 2011 if I remember correctly…

Ok thanks, just wondering as I have just had an engine rebuilt and the garage said the cause of the problem was due to High Sulphur Diesel

to be honest, (used to work at a petrol station 2007-2010) and all the fuel delivery slip’s that I saw for diesel, were ultra low sulphur diesel, the only diesel I can think of that may be high would be red diesel, possably heating oil (seen it being put in fuel tank’s before now)

I think they should have said ‘diesel with a high sulfur content’. Its been a requirement to have a max of 50 PPM (Euro 4 spec) of sulfur since 2005 and less than 10 PPM (ULSD/Euro 5 spec) must be available. I Believe that it has now phased to all less than 10 PPM when Euro 6 comes into force. Red/off road fuel has needed to meet Euro 5 spec since 2009 if I remember correctly…

So it may have been a ‘bad batch’ etc, but you couldn’t have bought ‘high sulfur’ fuel - at least not in the EU.

dieselhead.ie:
Ok thanks, just wondering as I have just had an engine rebuilt and the garage said the cause of the problem was due to High Sulphur Diesel

more like “cleaned diesel” :wink:

Washed Diesel wash my first thought but the fact that the truck came from a large UK Hardware company sort of put me off that, but maybe they were buying it in in bulk. I would have thought their drivers would have been using fuel cards and thus filling up at service stations thus the question regarding when the high sulphur was phased out.