Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="t2ribena" data-source="post: 326462" data-attributes="member: 3847">fuel octane level does not directly reflect the quality of the fuel...it is merely the parameter for the fuel's self-ignition point at certain combustion condition... the fuel quality parameter that I was mentioning is the level of sulfur content...if the sulfur content is significantly high in the fuel this would compromise the special grade BMW LL-04 operating performance especially for spark iginition engine and diesel engine with particle filter...this is why BMW does not recommend the use of this oil in countries that have low fuel quality which normally has a very high sulfur content... for eg. take our diesel for example the MS standard calls for minimum of 3000ppm of sulfer contents and comparing to let say EURO4 requirement the allowed sulfur contents in fuel is 50ppm...thats a huge difference...while some brands of fuel do offer fuel that is compliant to EURO2 but with a standard that is currrently in use which allows such huge tolerance then this can be summarize as fuel quality unknown...</blockquote>