Has anyone tried veg oil in their 4 x 4?

[henryhorn]

just wondering before i do...

 

[Cuffey]

Yep my son makes up a brew with cheapest supermkt veg oil plus an additive from Halfords
Havent a clue how much oil to diesel sorry and he is deep asleep!!
Seema to run OK

 

[Cahill]

a friend has an old landy,it smells like a chipshop!!!he said you mustn`t get caught doing it cos its avoiding tax.
don`t know if its true,he was talking to oh and i wasnt really listening.

 

[Lotty]

There's a landrover at our yard that runs on it. It smells like bacon sarnies

 

[CAYLA]

OH just tried it today in my doggi van...because we are to chicken to try it in landrover...as its nearly new

will let u know it it blows up tomorrow

OH dad runs his toyota lucida....people carier thingy on half veggi oil and has had no probs....he fills in a declaring form thingy...so not dodging tax.....although Im sure the odd litre goes astray

 

[Marnie]

No, but I have looked into it for my Pajero - I'm not sure that I would have the time to do it properly, including filling in the declaration etc so that its all 'legal' tax-wise.

 

[darkangel1243]

This is a forum I used to use they have a load of information on running their cars on Veg Oil and they do!!

Click here veg oil!!!

 

[PeterNatt]

I believe you can use up to 25% vedgetable oil. The fuel filter may need changing more often and some manufacturers state that it invalidates their warrenty.

 

[custard]

All diesels should run well on veg oil but unless you have a costly conversion you need to thin it with something, ordinary diesel is fine. They say a 50/50 mix for summer and 70/30 in Winter should work well.

The Inland Revenue have apparently said that you only have to declare using more than 2500 litres a year for taxation but I can't find anything on their website, in plain English, to back this up.

I'm seriously tempted to put it in my horsebox but will be interested to hear it from the Inland Revenue, anybody on here work for them or have a contact?

 

[PapaFrita]

I saw them do it on Top Gear

 

[Scoopy]

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We have tried it on a pic up, and its brill 75% diesel 25% oil ! for winter otherwise you have starting problems

 

[wizoz]

A friend of ours uses fish and chip shop used oil, if you stand behind his van whilst the engine is running, it really makes you hungry

 

[happihorse]

Do you mean biofuel or pure vegetable oil?

Biofuel is supposed to be very similar to use as normaly diesel and you don't need a conversion. However, it 'may' do long term damage to an engine if used a lot.

 

[star]

my ex-boyfriend used to use veggie oil in his 4x4 - he ran it 50/50 with diesel and then fitted it with a fuel heater and ran 100% veggie oil - without the heater you can only run about 30% veggie oil in winter as when it gets cold it clogs up. summer can get away with more like 60%. it's not evading tax providing you dont use more than 2500 litres a year - the inland revenue has definitely confirmed this. and yes, plain old Tesco's veggie oil is fine and works out about 50p a litre if you buy it in huge drums.

 

[SpruceRI]

I'd love to use it but too scared to try in my Daihatsu Fourtrak as I'd be heartbroken if I broke it.

I probably wouldn't notice a change in the way it ran until it blew up!