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Originally Posted by gunt86
Some diesel in some countries is absolutely terrible stuff - Bolivia for example. I also remember a woman from germany who had a new Mercedes RV with a diesel engine...it didn't last long until the catalytic converter was buggered from the high sulfur diesel in argentina. The point is that while you can find Ultra-Low-Sulfur diesel in some locations in the major cities, most of the time in the rural area you cannot. Also remember a couple with a 2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser that had to turn around coming south from Panama since the petrol wasn't 93 or above.
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Not worried about diesel, mine is an old pre-common rail diesel with no emissions control, and will be very happy to have high sulphur diesel. We enjoyed thousands of litres of cheap Iranian diesel which I think has over 25,000 ppm sulphur (and stinks). Taking a ULSD vehicle out of the Europe / US and not expecting problems is just plain ignorant.
But we're talking about petrol... I know that my petrol engine is quite popular in South America as it's fitted to Hilux and Landcruiser models there, but it's possible that they have dropped the compression ratio, though I doubt it.
Problem is that once again the US chooses to use an arcane measuring system (RON + MON) / 2 meaning that '87' at the pump there is in fact 91-93 RON by the rest of the world's standards. So if south American countries follow this US convention the petrol is not as bad as it seems.
Cheers
EO
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