Attention All D8 Veg Burners

[gumby6371]

Just picked up 2 15 litre drums of veg oil from Tesco it's on offer at £13.99 a drum until the end of feb.

It's a sign from God for me to give it a go, hopefully picking up another 1.9td on saturday so I'll give it a go on that one 50% Veg 50% DERV

[Gary406]

late reply. but keep a fuel filter in the boot when you start using veg . and a tool to take the bolts off and change it on the go... on occasions its blocked up putting EML on and dont start. only when 1st using it,
when i started using it last year in my old d8 i was told that from some on this forum... but i never needed to change it ..

my new d8 is staying veg oil free. its never seen it and never will

[gumby6371]

Gary, from your comment about never putting veg in your new D8 does that mean you had problems when running veg?
My mate has been running his 2.8 lucida on straight veg for the last couple of weeks and it starts fine even in this weather and he reckons has a bit more power, chugs a little on idle when cold but runs fine.
I've got 45 litres in the shed but the frosty mornings have put me off using it until it warms up a bit, saying that the fuel light came on this morning so I might put 15 litres of DERV in with 15 litres of veg.

My old D8 will be off to the breakers this week, it only got serviced 10 days ago so I'll nab the brand new fuel filter out of that when I hand the keys over (along with lights, fuses and any other bits I can think of) need to swap the alloys over but it's too bloody cold for messing about on the drive!!!

[Welly]

Standing in Sainsbury's last Sunday I was perusing the cooking oil displays (on the look out for some ground Nut oil for my Indian cooking) when I noticed the bloody price of cooking oil again

You fuckers with your dodgy motors are driving the price up on the shelves please stop it

[gumby6371]

If you wrap your sunday joint in some foil and wedge it against the manifold you're still using the oil for cooking, now thats eco motoring !!!!!

[Gary406]

Gary, from your comment about never putting veg in your new D8 does that mean you had problems when running veg?
My mate has been running his 2.8 lucida on straight veg for the last couple of weeks and it starts fine even in this weather and he reckons has a bit more power, chugs a little on idle when cold but runs fine.
I've got 45 litres in the shed but the frosty mornings have put me off using it until it warms up a bit, saying that the fuel light came on this morning so I might put 15 litres of DERV in with 15 litres of veg.

My old D8 will be off to the breakers this week, it only got serviced 10 days ago so I'll nab the brand new fuel filter out of that when I hand the keys over (along with lights, fuses and any other bits I can think of) need to swap the alloys over but it's too bloody cold for messing about on the drive!!!

it runs ok TBH . just a personal thing really i dont like the way it runs. hunting all the time and the smell it stinks. many run them on it with no problems at all. just me being fussy.
and at the end of the day . i get 40mpg round town and veg oil is not that much cheaper from costco than normal diesel. and you loose a bit of MPG on veg as well. so for me its not really worth doing for what i use my car for

if it was a work horse doing 500 miles a week then it would probably benefit but i do about 40 miles a week commuting my kids to school and back and the wife for her weekly £20 cleaning fluids at the local supermarket

[gumby6371]

I don't do mega miles myself but if I can get cheap oil it should virtually pay the road tax over 12 months even mixing it with DERV.
I've recently heard about a pub near me doing there own biodiesel which I'm going to look in to, need to check the quality first as a replacement fuel pump will be a lot more than I'd save running poor quality bio!!!

[Doggy]

Standing in Sainsbury's last Sunday I was perusing the cooking oil displays (on the look out for some ground Nut oil for my Indian cooking) when I noticed the bloody price of cooking oil again

You fuckers with your dodgy motors are driving the price up on the shelves please stop it

You could ease the situation yourself welly - use more petrol, this will ease the upward pressure on derv prices, which in turn will translate into cheaper veg oil. May save you grinding your nuts too.

[Welly]

welly - use more petrol

I'm quite friendly enough with the petrol pump operative already thank you very much

He'll say things like "didn't you fill up on Monday?" to which I'll reply "yeah"