FOR SALE:- WVO waste veg oil fuel, 20L tubs, Plymouth area

[StevieboyTD]

Wife has cut down her hours at work and my car has been off the road for a bit so i've built up a small pile of cleaned veg oil fuel.

For those that understand it, the oil is settled for a couple of weeks, then the good oil is poured off the top through bag filters, then loaded into a pumped filter rig where it is cold filtered down to 5 microns.
Then the tubs are stood in the shade on a concrete floor, keeping the cool, encouraging any high melting points fats that some how got through the system to drop out and become visible.

Diesel around here is at the £1.38/L level so you can save yourself £3 a gallon.

£15 for 20L, £7 cheaper than cash and carry.

Oil is of great quality, been collecting from curry houses of late, the oil gets used for one or two dishes then replaced, some of it looks like they forgot to use it it's so clean! This isn't a big money spinner for me, the days of free oil are long gone, i've paid for this oil, and i've cleaned it, all you need to do is pour it in your tank. I've even got a couple of funnels here to help!

HDI drivers need not apply.

[Gary406]

costco prices seem to be dropping up here were i live.

20 litres of new oil is £19odd now.

[Welly]

Does the local Chinese chippy type place charge people for the old oil now? they used to give it away no?

I suppose they've seen the potential for some cash-back due to the price of the new oil they need

Will a Volvo T5 run on green alcohol?

[StevieboyTD]

Bookers is £21 down here

Never sold any before, always been too worried we'd run out (she was doing 400 miles a week for work), now she down to her last 5 shifts before her maternity leave starts and the next motor doesn't run on veg.

Not been in the situation of more oil than we can burn for about 7 years!

[StevieboyTD]

Does the local Chinese chippy type place charge people for the old oil now? they used to give it away no?

I suppose they've seen the potential for some cash-back due to the price of the new oil they need

Will a Volvo T5 run on green alcohol?

Free oil? Not for a LONG time, the local Bookers will buy back the old oil (in any condition) at £4 a tub, so i'm having to beat that price just to get my hands on it, and some of the stuff i get would make you puke. Then i have to clean it.

[CalamityJames]

ARGH I was in Cornwall last week just before the Pug got converted to Bosch, damn damn damn! Would have snapped your arm off if I'd still been there!

[StevieboyTD]

As per sods law!

[Archangel]

As per sods law!

Stevie , just as a matter of interest , what is your mpg for the 2.1 ( roughly) ?

[StevieboyTD]

As per sods law!

Stevie , just as a matter of interest , what is your mpg for the 2.1 ( roughly) ?

TBH, i don't know, for two reasons.

1. I measure in buckets/week not mpg.

2. The halfwit who did the Bosch pump swap has really buggered it up. Instead of increasing the base fueling on the screw, he pre-loaded the throttle arm so that it's always 1/4 open!


I only actually noticed it yesterday, it been staring me in the face for a while now but it just didn't register as nobody could be that stupid, surely? Job for next week, sort the fuelling.
Been wondering why it didn't give the kick in the ass my 1.9 used to when the turbo came in, now i know!

[Archangel]

At least you know now , reason I been asking is because I been using about 25 litres ( short journeys -workand back ) on my 1.9td . was thinking about getting a 2.1 because i`m planning on doing some courier work and i heard that the 2.1 is more economical . Whats your view ? better or the same ?

[StevieboyTD]

It's definitely smoother, even with the wrong fuelling. I can run down the bypass at 80ish and i'm not having to push the engine at all, where as with the 1.9 you know that you're spinning the turbo and having to give it some throttle.

[Archangel]

Could be why they were /are liked by taxi drivers

[CalamityJames]

I always heard the 2.1 was a bit worse on fuel (at least with the Lucas pump).

Default Auto Trader figures tend to agree too:

2.1 GLX Saloon:
Fuel consumption (urban) 29.7 mpg
Fuel consumption (extra urban) 49.6 mpg
Fuel consumption (combined) 39.8 mpg

1.9 GLX Saloon:
Fuel consumption (urban) 30.4 mpg
Fuel consumption (extra urban) 51.4 mpg
Fuel consumption (combined) 40.9 mpg

[HimBigChief]

I was getting just shy of 40mpg pretty much week in, week out in my 2.1 before the problems. That was mixed driving, but quite a lot of rural/A road single carriageway driving and doing 80 miles a day. Measured from full tank to full tank (every week). Also I was running slightly fatter tyres (225's and 235's) so may have decreased economy a biy, and I also ran with the climate control set to Auto all the time which means the air-con was on automatically so could also drop the MPG a little bit.