any heating engineers ?

[lewisdale]

lol you have been busy

[zimm]

the 2500 litres a year allowance is a bit of a grey area ..

technically its 2500 litres of "fuel"

if you are running a 50/50 mix thats 1250 litres of veg oil + 1250 litres of derv = 2500 litres of "fuel" as in the eyes of customs and excise pouring SVO (straight vegetable oil) in your tank along with derv constitutes the creation of bio-fuel.. the fact you've paid duty on the derv already doesnt matter.

course, unless theres a customs man living in the back of your van .. how are they meant to know how much you've used ?

its all a bit mad .. eco/bio/alternative stuff should be tax free or even subsidised like it is on the continent

[RedexRobB]

Cos this is england and TAX is the best thing since sliced bread, you even get taxed when you bloody die ffs. Least they got the money i guess to give failing banks hand outs just so the execs can still get thier bonus.

[lewisdale]

lol ive only ever seen one petrol station that sells bio fuel ans it was quite a lot cheaper then diesel, cant remember exactly how much though

[Mori Man]

Watched a program here of them pouring used oil after it being filtered through coffee papers directly into one of those old diesel bikes and the mad wee three wheelers they use in Thailand as taxi's.

The only issue they got was it freezing/waxing but a 25:1 paraffin/Kerosene mix would take care of that - they just poured hot water on the tank until it fired up again. The only other thing they reported was MPG was down over diesel.

Mythbusters also got a Merc car and ran it on new veggie oil without mods along a runway to see what milage it done and reported the same thing, guess what my next motor is going to be. kerosene here is 45p a litre Used oil free and 50 coffee filter papers a 100 yen.

BUT, you do need to adjust modern motors and also something about if they use a common rail system too.

I have seen several here using kerosene though (smell it) and indeed in the merc's owners manual it says to add a 25:1 mix in the winter to stop freezing/waxing.

Alway's thought "Fuel Oil" was Kerosene (Paraffin) just not so refined.

[lewisdale]

YOU CAN ALSO GET A HEATERS THAT GO IN THE TANK AND ON THE FUEL LINES TO SETOP IT FREEZING UP