Dirty Harry

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thinking of buying a processing system as the savings look to be quite good,I get through about £100 a week in fuel so the initial outlay should pay back quite quickly

clarke5700

YES!! Lol i run my corsa on it get a puff of smoke on startup and you can smell chips the hole time you drive but its half the price and the car goes better on it. Also bio fuel burns grey unlike diesel that burns black

phil_focus

I think some clarification is needed.

Do you mean proper biodiesel or filtered waste vegitable oil (wvo) or straight vegitable oil (svo) bought from the shop and poured straight into your tank???

also what engine you got?

Rsmat

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Used it a lot... What a saving..!

Dirty Harry

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yes proper bio fuel using chip shop oil filtered through a proper machine
I have a toyota hi lux and a volvo

Moonstone Steve.

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I have and do use oil emptied from oil filled radiators, neat, runs a treat, cheap as chips too.

Steve

phil_focus

proper bio is not just filtered its washed aswell. if your just running filtered (and i forgot to mention de-watered) then you don't need a big fancy and over priced filtering kit. also I hope your volvo isn't a common rail engine as you'll fuck it.

get yourself onto the biodiesel and wvo forums...LOADS of info on there mate.

James Porter

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As above common rail engines don't like it... Just ask my old Vivaro!

qad

my mate use's it in an bmw 730d 2009 he always going on about how good it is!

stevieturbo

Many common rails dont even like proper diesel lol.


If it's an old mechanical diesel then chances are it should be fine. On modern stuff, it could be an expensive gamble.

R4N SS

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i have used it for several years in various cars - literally is cheap as chips.

If using in a modern derv it needs to be processed properly to get rid of all the crap and it will be fine - i have used it in several common rail motors too

ajamesc

I work for daf and we look after some golden west CF65,s with the cummins ce commen rail engine in them. Golden west are the transport company for mcdonalds who use and make there own bio fuel from there waste oil ive never seen one in with a fuel fault other than when the tank heater system is at fault or not switched on

R4N SS

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properly processed bio fuel will work in common rail diesel's - problems occur when it hasnt been processed properly

Brendan

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Processing the oil properly for modern common rail diesels is essential, where as the older mechanical diesels will run on about anything!

A now sadly departed friend once said to me "why pay for red diesel? This is much cheaper and there is no dye!!" once or twice he complained that he had to add about 3 to 5 % petrol and keep it warm(er) in the winter!

Bailes1992

Nothing wrong with using Biop in a commonrail engine provided it's made well.

No matter how much I know thats true... I still won't try it in my HDi