ULSD in Baja
We travel every year with groups to Cabo San Lucas, BCS. Many of our friends have had ULSD vehicles and none have reported to us any difficulties in regards to using ULSD in southern Baja. We would ...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Topolobampo Sinaloa Pemex sends DIESEL across the gulf by barge to Pichilingue. Tank farm to tank farm. From Pichilingue, pipas, Spanish for tankers haul the fuel northward as far as Jesús María, the last real Pemex gasolinera for many hundreds of miles.
Topolobampo fuel except for USA manufactured premium gasoline comes from either the Pemex refinacion in Salamanca, Guanajuato or Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. The Magna and the diesel are manufactured in Mexico. Pemex does not classify this fuel as being UBA or Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. Pemex assigns a maximum permissible sulfur content of 300 PPM as compared to 15 PPM sulfur for UBA. No UBA diesel is manufactured in Mexico.
With the exception of Villa Jesús Maria, and Bahía Gonzaga, every PEMEX gasolinera in Baja California (this is the north state) has sold ULSD for the last five years. None of the Bala California Sur, gasolineras sell ULSD, UBA diesel.
I have been traveling south to the tip of Baja for the past 13 years and this is also my understanding. I drive a pre 2007 diesel. Someday I would like to upgrade to a newer truck but until I am assured that ULSD is sold in Southern Baja I will hang on to my old truck.
Nik
