[abilol]

hi i clean lots of shops round  the northwest and  travel 800 mlies roughley every fortnight on shops and  lots of miles doing houses   with price of diesel at 1.33a litre  i have started to use bio diesel i was just wondering if any one else uses it on here and how they find it

[Lee GLS]

What are you using it in? Some modern diesels shouldn't be run 100% on bio diesel because it can mess the pump up.

[Scrimble]

i ran bio diesel in one of my old vans and it f***ed it up big time, dont bother you will regret it, knackered diesel pump injectors blocked filters made the engine pour out smoke, it would struggle to start in the morning etc could go on all day,

dont bother you'll regret it

[darren clarke]

arn tu meant to change all your filter and injectors when u start using biodiesel

[Lee GLS]

If you have an old diesel engine with a mechanical pump like the escort van or the dispatch 1.9 td then you can run it on 100% biodiesrl or cooking fat, but if you have a modern common rail diesel engine like the ford tdci then you are supposed to only put something like 5-10% bio diesel in because something that is in the bio diesel can destroy the seals on the high pressure diesel pump.

[LBWCS]

i ran bio diesel in one of my old vans and it f***ed it up big time, dont bother you will regret it, knackered diesel pump injectors blocked filters made the engine pour out smoke, it would struggle to start in the morning etc could go on all day,

dont bother you'll regret it

snap wrecked my astra van aswel, £700 pum went, just not worth it. Would be worth investing in an lpg powered van or car maybe?

[darren clarke]

lee i got a r reg dispatch 1.9td  so i can just fill right up,  or does the tank have to be empty,  as looked on google and there is loads of filling statison near me

[Scrimble]

snap wrecked my astra van aswel, £700 pum went, just not worth it. Would be worth investing in an lpg powered van or car maybe?

it trashed my astravan i even had to pay to have the fuel tank taken off and cleaned out because it blocked it all up, dont bother with bio diesel your wasting your time honestly.

I've got a vauxhall combo dual fuel LPG 64p litre dirt cheap to run no way would i ever use bio crap in my van again

[Lee GLS]

lee i got a r reg dispatch 1.9td  so i can just fill right up,  or does the tank have to be empty,  as looked on google and there is loads of filling statison near me

It doesn't matter if you mix it with normal diesel, put in as little or as much as you like. If you army sure go on the Peugeot forums and look, all the 406/306's have the same engine and there will be loads of info on there.

[darren clarke]

i just been speaking to my mate, who use to run his transit van on a 50/50 mix of diesel and veg oil,  said he never had any probs,   just been petrol station and it is now 139 a litre,  so minds made up now,  going to get some later

[Reflective Property Services]

What is biodiesel?

It is NOT vegetable oil, it is NOT veg oil mixed with a few additives. Some diesel engines will run on pure veg oil, pretty much all diesels will run on biodiesel, common rail or not, PROVIDED it has been made properly. BUT they are completely different fuels. Some producers make poor quality fuel and flog it as 'biodiesel'. Put that in the wrong engine and it can muck it up big time.

Visit http://vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum, its a forum for people interested in biofuels, its got some very helpful and knowledgeable blokes on there, they can give you good advice about what you can run your particular engine on and how to make sure its good quality stuff.

[abilol]

hi van am running is a v reg   nissan cargo so its a old girl  but been buying bio diesel from garage near what sell it from pump i had lpg before and it kept burning vavles out i have been told to change filter fairley often and a lad who does all work on my van said because its fairley old with basic engine it should run ok he said he would not put it in the newer vans

[Jackal]

where do you get bio diesel or straight veg oil from i would use it

[geefree]

fish and chip shop 

[darren clarke]

stright veg oil, from a cash and carry,  use it 50/50 in your tank

[Jackal]

stright veg oil, from a cash and carry,  use it 50/50 in your tank

does it work out much cheaper tho these days iv seen drums in tesco 15 lts for 13 quid not sure how much cheaper cash an carrys are

[abilol]

ive been going to garage in burnley  thats been selling it for years only been useing it for last couple of weeks  it 99p a litre but with doing 800 miles a week  its worth a try

[drevitt]

snap wrecked my astra van aswel, £700 pum went, just not worth it. Would be worth investing in an lpg powered van or car maybe?

it trashed my astravan i even had to pay to have the fuel tank taken off and cleaned out because it blocked it all up, dont bother with bio diesel your wasting your time honestly.

I've got a vauxhall combo dual fuel LPG 64p litre dirt cheap to run no way would i ever use bio crap in my van again

what sort of mpg do you get with lpg mate? its about 74p per litre here and thinking of getting combo just unsure if to go diesel or lpg?
thanks

[Scrimble]

snap wrecked my astra van aswel, £700 pum went, just not worth it. Would be worth investing in an lpg powered van or car maybe?

it trashed my astravan i even had to pay to have the fuel tank taken off and cleaned out because it blocked it all up, dont bother with bio diesel your wasting your time honestly.

I've got a vauxhall combo dual fuel LPG 64p litre dirt cheap to run no way would i ever use bio crap in my van again

what sort of mpg do you get with lpg mate? its about 74p per litre here and thinking of getting combo just unsure if to go diesel or lpg?
thanks

i get about 30mpg out if it at 64p litre so about 60mpg at 128p which is how much petrol is round here, i had a 1.3 cdti combo and that only did about 43mpg average so savings are made with lpg

[laddermonkee]

Why don't you try converting to gas?