Well from the comments ive read then cooking oil is under £1 a liter, the engine runs fine on it and the majority of folk save enough on one tankfull to pay for a set of filters...
Depends where you shop i suppose...im starting tomorrow with SVO in a 60/40 mix. I drive 150 miles a day (6 gallons)and expect the savings to far outweigh the potential extra cost of a fuel filter..rough estimate is £150 a month extra in my pocket.
Thank you Ratty...i'm off home soon to toast bread on one side only and put used tea bags on the washing line to dry...
BTW...if australia is so fkn great...why are there so many of them in London??
I have read all that i read similar a few year ago when it was worth considering when you could by a litre in asda for around 70p now its like £1.15 or summit which is very little difference to the price of diesel, the saving is just not worth the effort unless you get it free from your local chippy.
And used engine all fouls up your tank and the cost of new fuel filters outways every thing.
Just my 10p worth.
White spirit in your tank and the Revenue boys will stick you on if they find it - same with paraffin.Used engine oil is the way forward. Filters are dirt cheap. Forget veggie oil
As long as you filter used engine oil and mix it with a bit of white spirit it'll burn all the same.
A tiny bit of oil at the bottom of my fuel tank isn't going to keep me awake at night
An update since my last post (Feb) & a nod to Shifty ;-)
ps This is on a 19J 2.5TD
So to all them who says 19J's don't run on bio aren't making it properly
used engine oil??? u telling me that u actually use the oil in the engine that drained from engine and bung that into the tank 50/50 with diesel from the garage pump and run it?? won't the engine oil have tiny bits of metals?
YES!used engine oil??? u telling me that u actually use the oil in the engine that drained from engine and bung that into the tank 50/50 with diesel from the garage pump and run it?? won't the engine oil have tiny bits of metals?
YES!
Read this thread from the beginning and you will see that the word "FILTER" keeps popping up. So long as you filter it BEFORE you tip it in your tank then there is no problem as anything smaller than 5 microns will pass straight through your onboard filter and the fuel system. I let the used oil stand, sometimes for months, before I filter it so any heavy metals and sludge will have settled out and can be disposed of once there is enough to worry about. After two years and some 2000 litres of used engine oil I have less than an inch of sludge in my settlement and storage drum. Once it gets to 3 or four inches I'll wash it out with some parrafin and take it down to my local waste disposal depot or use it to light the bonfire on November 5th
I have just made a 250 mile round trip today on 25/75 diesel/homebrew mix towing a loaded car trailer (carrying a dead Landcruiser) with no issues what so ever. Only averaged about 15 mpg mind but at as I'm only paying the equivalent of about 30p per litre the whole trip cost me £23 instead of £90 for straight diesel. Thats a cool saving of about £67 to spend on beer or dinner out with my old lady. But not tonight though as I'm fooking knackered. My motor also just passed its latest MOT last Wednesday with the same mix in the tank. Sailed through the smoke and emmisions tests with no comment from the examiner. The last Bearmach fuel filter has now done 2000 miles but I'll leave off changing it until at least 3000 unless it gives me any problems.