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Beat the fuel mess
Visit the Chinese Take Away or Local Chip Shop and take their old vegatable oil away.
Filter it, then mix 93 parts of oil with 3 parts of white spirit.
Place into Disco3 and bingo away you go. Just smells like a chip shop if you are following. Cheap, but excellent.
14th Sep 2005 8:43 am
Coffeecup
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Time may come when we need to do this when there is no Oil left in the ground.
Do you have to use old-cooking oil, can't you just go to the cash & carry and buy a drum of the clean stuff?
Have you done this yourself BN, or just a suggestion. Coffeecup March 2005 TDV6 S - Tonga Green - Manual May 2008 TDV6 SE - Stornoway Grey - Auto Dec 2010 SDV6 XS - Galway Green - Auto
Careful, the manual clearly states that fuel type should be EN590 specification diesel and it is NOT compatible with bio-diesel (page 21 on the pdf version I've got).The End
And the other thing to note if you did go the bio-diesel route you're supposed to declare it to the taxman and pay the duty on it
Sorry, it's all doom and gloom from me this morning The End
14th Sep 2005 9:19 am
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Slimer wrote:
And the other thing to note if you did go the bio-diesel route you're supposed to declare it to the taxman and pay the duty on it
Sorry, it's all doom and gloom from me this morning
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14th Sep 2005 9:45 am
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Slimer, if the tax man declared more to us, we would be far better off. How can we have a Scottish Government in England, Blair, Brown, Darling and about 80 more. Brown is a true Scott with his pockets sewn up.
Have I tried the fuel, yes and it goes well, but it does stink like a chip shop behind and yes you can use fresh, no difference. Slimer is uring on the safe side and quite right. I may try it in the D3 I have today as I am about down to 70 miles of diesel and my local Chinese is very flendly.
Filter it, then mix 93 parts of oil with 3 parts of white spirit.
But then what are the other 4 parts? Crispy Duck? Tsing Tao beer?
Sorry - pedantry mode off now
14th Sep 2005 10:42 am
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Re: Beat the fuel mess
Guy wrote:
BN wrote:
Filter it, then mix 93 parts of oil with 3 parts of white spirit.
But then what are the other 4 parts? Crispy Duck? Tsing Tao beer?
Sorry - pedantry mode off now
So long as it isn't pedestrian mode
14th Sep 2005 10:47 am
Coffeecup
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So can you mix up a Gallon of Cooking Oil plus White Spirit at 93/7 ratio, and then add it to your vehicle which may or may not have existing Diesel in it?
I was always told not to use too much cooking oil as it wasn't good for you Coffeecup March 2005 TDV6 S - Tonga Green - Manual May 2008 TDV6 SE - Stornoway Grey - Auto Dec 2010 SDV6 XS - Galway Green - Auto
14th Sep 2005 11:50 am
BN
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Coffeecup wrote:
So can you mix up a Gallon of Cooking Oil plus White Spirit at 93/7 ratio, and then add it to your vehicle which may or may not have existing Diesel in it?
I was always told not to use too much cooking oil as it wasn't good for you
93:3 is the ratio. Too much cooking oil, is not good for sure, slip everywhere.
14th Sep 2005 11:53 am
Coffeecup
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Oh.
So for every 31 litres of Cooking Oil add 1 litre of White Spirit.
Is it any particular Cooking Oil? I mean is it Vegetable Oil and Sun Flower Oil the same thing.
Does Cooking Oil mix with Diesel, or do you get a scum forming? Coffeecup March 2005 TDV6 S - Tonga Green - Manual May 2008 TDV6 SE - Stornoway Grey - Auto Dec 2010 SDV6 XS - Galway Green - Auto
14th Sep 2005 12:14 pm
BN
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Coffeecup wrote:
Oh.
So for every 31 litres of Cooking Oil add 1 litre of White Spirit.
Is it any particular Cooking Oil? I mean is it Vegetable Oil and Sun Flower Oil the same thing.
Does Cooking Oil mix with Diesel, or do you get a scum forming?
Not sure about the scum, but vegatable oil is the only oil.
14th Sep 2005 12:16 pm
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as I am about down to 70 miles of diesel and my local Chinese is very flendly.
