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the early sprint plastic tank is 21 L

With the price of unleaded locally approx £1.25 per litre

21 L * £1.25 = £26.25

Normally fuel up 180 - 200 miles and put 18 - 20 l in

Cheers Steve

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so diesel will be £1.27 a litre from today and probably £1.31 a litre from tuesday. Ouch. Thank god for my works fuel card is all i can say.


I genuinely feel sorry for people who have to run 2 cars in a household even with a super efficent car (50+ mpg) and an 11 gallon tank it's costing 10p per mile in fuel alone compared to 7.2p when it was 80p less than 4 years ago. Inflation isn't that much surely.

So a 200 mile week now becomes £20 instead of £14.20 which times by 2 cars is over £11 a week more than 4 years ago, where people were making more money.

Crazy world people.

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Motorists = cash cows.

Fuel prices have definitely crept up here over the last couple of weeks.

A local Shell garage has a £60 limit on their pay at pump too, so you cant even fill your tank in a single transaction with them!

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rtfm, ;)

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That's approx what I pay for mine from Costco.

But even the veg oil is going up! In July it was £14.35 for 20 litres from Costco. Now its £17.85! Thats nearly a 40% increase and there's no VAT on Veg oil. Its that the faint whiff of rat I can smell? and amazingly Costco and Makro match each other to within pennies!

But its still cheaper than running Diesel. I'm running 75/25 Oil/Diesel at the moment as the pure oil freezes at about minus 2 and its running really well.

There's a guy on Ebay selling Oil for 25p a litre if you buy a ton at a time too.

C

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hi carl-happy new year mate-the machine i'm getting can process either new or used veg oil but i've found that the takeaways and the like are now getting a deduction from the suppliers to return there used oil to them for reprocessing-still gonna work out cheaper buying new stuff than payin for dino diesel.

h.

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Sounds like a central heating oil tank in your garden somewhere may be a worthwhile investment, but you'd need some kind of insulation or heating around it.

Can any diesel vehicle run on this stuff, ie: modern common rail turbo, or it it just older more agricultural engines?

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Its getting expensive, I picked up the wrong pump at the fuel station the other day and put BP Ultimate Diesel in, instead of normal diesel, was £1.39 a litre. Both the Audi and Maverick have 70 litre tanks so takes £85 there or there abouts to fill.

Not happy about it, but what can you do. Its changed the way I drive now. I guess expensive fuel is much more of a speeding deterent than speed camera's are !

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No you need to be careful. Both the Maverick and the Audi cant run on it and the engine in the Maverick is ancient in design. Its something to do with the Fuel Pump seals not liking vegetable oil IIRC.

We stay away from Morrisons now with the Audi as their diesel has a % of bio diesel in it which the manual says not to use.

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Ralph check this

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