"Clean diesel" fuel??

[Craig]

Originally Posted by jamesboags

And I presume NO Biodiesel...

You can only use 5% bio diesel. I have a friend with a VW Jetta and he runs mostly bio diesel. He has to start and shut off his car with regular diesel. The rest of the time, he runs on vegtable oil.

Craig

[Lubehead]

Low Sulfur Diesel Duel has 500 ppm of sulfur
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel has 15 ppm of sulfur
The use of Bio diesel fuel has caused significant problems ranging from inconvenient to vehicle immobility

[ODI69]

I saw at the diesel pumps it says bio diesel up to 10%,that means is not safe for use in X5?

[Lubehead]

Not necessarily, but for me, it means I'll be going someplace else.

Check into Problems with & Disadvantages of Biodiesel - Problems with

[FunfDreisig]

ALL 4 filling stations in the closest small country town sell diesel and their pumps are clearly labeled that it is Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. The largest has 5 islands with 3 grades of gas and ULSD at each pump.

I asked the truck driver that delivered 10yds of road base yesterday about the availability of USLD. He snorted that the ULSD crap was all you could get around here anymore. He has to use lubricating additives to each tankful to keep his old PeterBuilt dump truck runnin' right.

I wonder if the prevalence of large diesel pickups, ranch trucks/equipment etc. means that diesel is more available out in the country than in the large cities?

Funf Dreisig

[Penguin]

> diesel is more available out in the country than in the large cities?


Probably. In June I rode my Motorcycle to Phoenix and back from Chicago and noticed that in the rural areas of Kansas and Colorado diesel pumps were quite common in the smaller towns in farm and cattle country -- I believe the diesel option is quite popular for pickup trucks in rural areas.

[Craig]

Originally Posted by ODI69

I saw at the diesel pumps it says bio diesel up to 10%,that means is not safe for use in X5?

I read somewhere, you can only run 5% bio diesel in the X5, so I
would say it wouldn't be safe...

Craig