diesel info

Originally Posted by Cloggsy

Don't forget, with older diesel cars you can mix your diesel with rape seed oil and run it without any adjustment at a ratio of 50% Diesel/50% Rape seed - More environmentally friendly and cheap to boot When you can buy rape seed oil to £10 for 20 litres at Bookers or Makro, you can 'legally' use 2500 litres a year...

Will ahve to look into this, I can also get my hands on vast quantities of used cooking oil (can't remember what type) from work. It comes in handy working in a pub!


Regards

Originally Posted by phil24_7

Will ahve to look into this, I can also get my hands on vast quantities of used cooking oil (can't remember what type) from work. It comes in handy working in a pub!


Regards

Colleague of mine runs his old Vauxhall Cavalier with mix of diesel and cooking oil from Lidl. Thought he was taking the p*** but says it never misses a beat.

It's a french diesel, that means the engine will last far longer than the electrics

Had a xantia 1.9td that did 130K, engine was still fine when the rest of it fell apart - I'm pretty sure that french 1.9td lump was shared amongst pug & citroen cars. That one ran on a 30/70 mix of veggie oil and diesel through all weathers without problem. Warning though - don't put unfiltered oil in - bits of potato peelings will definitely harm your engine. To be honest, the work involved in filtering used oil (has to be down to micron level) is probably too much for the non enthusiast but there's lots of help out there on t'internet if you're interested.

Current audi A4 diesel, 2.5 V6 lump, 180 horsepower, 45mpg, and 155,000 miles and still going strong.

If you get one don't forget to make sure it has a recent enough cam belt change!

[Wideboy]

yeah im swatting up on diesels big time

cam belt change is a big one at about 60k important too, lots of diesel cars use cam chain now.

[Wideboy]

well i bought a puggy 106 1.5D as i couldn't find right car and i want to get bike off the road for winter etc, it will do for time being, plus its immaculate, inside the engine as well, very very low millage 54k