Veggy Oil

Get a costco card and buy it in big drums like Chippies use.

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Don't forget the extra tax you need to pay to use it a road fuel.

Get a costco card and buy it in big drums like Chippies use.

Unfortunately it's actually cheaper to buy Asda's finest (£1.32) for 3 litres rather than the 20 litre drums at Costco which are a tenner each + vat....

My ZX runs fine on it, just make sure you've got a Bosch, not a Lucas fuel pump - if you don't know, have a look. The manufacturers name is on the front of the pump casting.

HTH

Mike

Which reminds me of the time I flew in from the US and there was a sign up from customs apologising for the lack of staff on duty and asking people to phone them if they had anything to declare....

How much does the conversion cost to run it on veg oil? Or are you going to do the Top Gear recommended trick of adding white spirit so that you don't need a conversion? Or mix veg oil with normal diesel? (I know someone who does this, puts about 1/3rd veg oil into his tank.) Apparently used veg oil is better than fresh, maybe you could try and source a supply of this, there must be somewhere that buys and sells it...

The conversion is around £400 for the bits, but in reality you could just make a heat exchanger for the fuel out of a couple of bits of copper pipe. Veg oil and diesel don't mix, so it's pointless putting them in together. I tried the trick of white spirit, but it made not much difference, so on a car I got for free, I just stick straight veg oil from Asda in it. Sometimes takes 2 goes to start when *really* cold, but other than that it runs as it does on normal diesel.....

I've found a few places that sell recycled veg oil, with duty paid for around 50p a litre. Problem is that they only sell in 2000 litre shipments delivered by tanker :-(

Mike

Yep. It's about 30p a litre. Which if you get the oil cheap enough, is not far from red. And legal.

Hmm. Got a couple of tanks here. Who?

Nothing.

Run it as a mix with road diesel though as the veggie oil might be too heavy for starting on cold mornings neat.

Tescos are selling cooking oil for 52 pence a litre at some branches. Unless you plan on selling it by the gallon I doubt you could get it much cheaper elsewhere and still make it worth your while (unless you already have storage facilitiies.)

It does seem to have the drawback of floating out sediment from tanks that have been in use with road diesel for some time. This might clog lines and you would need to clean the fliter frequently until the debris stopped arriving.

To the OP: I take it you have not yet read the recent posts on the subject?

Modem blew up. Will google.

I tried the link and it said no such a thing then I went into the thread and copied the URL from the address in the bar and there it is again.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mike P from the North" saying something like:

Totally untrue.

Find any chippy or other place that does chips/deep fried stuff - they have to pay for disposal these days, so would be more than happy for someone to take it off their hands.

He's in uni halls. What do students eat?

Can you run a car on beer, or would it have to be spirits?

Cheese toasties.

But there'll be a chippy nearby.

The government websites seem to suggest it should be more than that. What do you declare it as?