New Angle on Fuel Filter Blockages

[Halo]

Did anyone else hear the article (on car diesel fuel filter blockages that happened in November) on radio 4 just after 12-00 news today? I wonder if this has relevance to some of the threads on the diesel bug issue.
The story was that a load of cars stopped when a jelly like substance formed in thier fuel filters during a cold snap. This was not the old waxing issue from years ago.
The theory was that 30% of UK diesel comes from Russia and this has a lot of extra stuff to prevent waxing at very low temperatures. Apparanently in cold weather these extra additives can react with some parts of the bio fuel added to UK diesel to form a jelly like substance which blocks fuel filters.
Has anyone had a jelly like fuel filer blocker or want to comment?
Martin

 

[rob2]

Hmmm, ...if you heat the filter bowl does it break down into the diesel again? I'm quite happy to play a blowtorch over the filter if it works!

Rob.

 

[Stork_III]

Discussed back in December. http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...uffering-from-Diesel-Bug&highlight=bio+diesel

 

[seadog30]

Ah but -

The link is clearly dicussing bio fuel (which presumably was at the old 5% not the new spec 10%) it does not appear to consider the low sulphur issue. Does the lowering of the sulphur content have any effect on waxing, bugs or errosion ?

Does anyone have any information on this ?

Confused -