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.
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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” 
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.