Agency: With many new brand-new Euro 6 diesel vehicles across different companies failing or requiring repeated maintenance, the main suspect was the fuel quality being sent to Bhutan.
The paper even accessed two fuel quality reports of samples taken from broken down vehicles that showed the fuel quality was not to Euro 6 standard, and this is why the engines were being impacted.
Towards the third week of September 2024, eight fuel samples of MS (petrol) and HSD (diesel) were collected from Indian fuel tankers (IOCL, BPCL and HPCL) before being decanted into the dealers’ underground tanks in Phuentsholing.
Since Bhutan does not have the appropriate equipment to test for certain fuel parameters, these samples were then sent to a third-party laboratory for testing.
