Hearing a lot aabout using various types of cooking oil instead of diesel?
Your views please.
TIA
Hearing a lot aabout using various types of cooking oil instead of diesel?
Your views please.
TIA
It's not simply a case of shoving cooking oil straight into the car. You need to add something or another and leave it to 'ferment'. It's also only usable on direct injection engines, AFAIK.
Your best get is a google. However, it's illegal to use the stuff and I certainly wouldn't use it.
There's a chap who posts in the alt.autos.citroen group whos run his Xantia on a 50/50 diesel/sunflower oil mix for the last 4000 miles at temperatures down to -7 Celcius. Claims not to have had any problems so far.
That's basically B50 biodiesel (they use a catalyst to break that down though rather than using pure sunflower oil.. ). It's perfectly legal as long as you pay the tax on it...
Wouldn't bother making my own - just find a local producer and buy some. Tax is 20p/litre less than standard diesel, but the production costs are higher so you don't save a lot, if anything.
The original diesels were run on peanut oil and (later) vegetable oil... it's taken us 100 years to come full circle. Gotta love progress :P
Tony
You can get a lot of information here
So have you got all the stock of Sunflower oil out of Tescos Brian???/lol lol lol from Chris Addlestone Surrey
My local ethnic shop (I don't know which country the owners are from) sells veg oil in 5 gallon drums.
I never buy more than 3 litres at a time, for the chip pan of course.
Most supermarkets are wise to 'alternative' uses for cooking oil and will refuse to sell it in volume.
I'm suprised they haven't pioneered Bio Diesel in their pumps though as I'm guessing they are aligned nicely to do so and return a nice profit.
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