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Cheap veggie oil at Tescos for those who run cars on it


Shane

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Yes Chris, since HMRC relaxed the legislation on using it on the road the price shot up. It doubled over a 3 month period following the change. Average price is around 1.35 per litre meaning it really doesnt save you anything at that price. Obviously if you can find waste stuff free and are happy to clean it up then that's different. Not sure about lpg, not something I have ever looked at.

Is 9 quid for 10 litres actually considered cheap then, these days? How does that compare to running an already converted car on LPG?

 

 

Wouldnt like to say, there is a website that has a database of different cars and how they run on straight or mixed and that should give you a clue. Try a search on SVO Database or something like. The lucas CAV pumps are not SVO friendly at all, but even they will sometimes be ok on a mix, but now the price of oil has shot up, even this has to be questioned. Yours may have a Bosch pump and they are reckoned to be the best. I get quite a bit of waste stuff from the kitchens at work so that helps me, but clean new stuff is nice and simple.

I have a r reg range rover 2.5 td, will this be ok ? its got the bmw lump in it
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I have a r reg range rover 2.5 td, will this be ok ? its got the bmw lump in it

 

depends on the year. you can run around 5% veg oil with diesel mix, also like the petrol-diesel mix. ive ran my 2000 focus on 5% and it was fine. its not recommended to do anything more than that as veg oil it too think. if i could find a decent supplier of veg oil il definitely make biofuel.

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Is 9 quid for 10 litres actually considered cheap then, these days? How does that compare to running an already converted car on LPG?

 

The rangey has been off the road for a week while we put a new timing chain on it and the transit connect diesal cost the same to run as my 4.4 on LPG !!!!!!

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depends on the year. you can run around 5% veg oil with diesel mix, also like the petrol-diesel mix. ive ran my 2000 focus on 5% and it was fine. its not recommended to do anything more than that as veg oil it too think. if i could find a decent supplier of veg oil il definitely make biofuel.
Unless you were doing a huge amount of miles a 5% mix would be pointless and not yield any real saving surely?

 

I know how you feel mate my vans are killing me, goverment should help small buisnesses with fuel duty
Are the engines you are using common rail or mechanical pump injection? Have a look here: http://www.bio-power.co.uk/tryit.htm

 

 

Some more info here, its well out of date in terms of being updated but some good info all the same.

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/fuelsdatabase/database/index.php

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