Anyone tried it? I use it all the time, its bloody good stuff. Not cheap though. £1.11.2 per litre here......:eek:

I prefer stella, although £1.11.2 per litre is cheaper, might give it a try :D

Yeah, use it in the beemer. I get about an extra 50 miles to the tank using it

snake oil imo, i mean loads of dervs can run on vegetable oil just fine ffs.

Anyone tried it? I use it all the time, its bloody good stuff. Not cheap though. £1.11.2 per litre here......:eek:

 

Expensive but worth it IMHO

snake oil imo, i mean loads of dervs can run on vegetable oil just fine ffs.

 

 

maybe some can but would you trust a £50k car with chip fat? Suppose it depends what car you are running and with shell's backing and if you wanted piece of mind and are keeping the car quality fuels can easily pay for themselves imo :D

If the 50K Derver was a German diesel then yes...Best cars for it! Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil so that farmers could continue to mechanise with rising oil prices....Just like todays oil price.....

If the 50K Derver was a German diesel then yes...Best cars for it! Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil so that farmers could continue to mechanise with rising oil prices....Just like todays oil price.....

 

would you honestly if it were you own cash and car ?

If the 50K Derver was a German diesel then yes...Best cars for it! Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil so that farmers could continue to mechanise with rising oil prices....Just like todays oil price.....

 

That may be true for Merc's but my research has indicated it's not for BMWs. Unfortunately.

would you honestly if it were you own cash and car ?

that specific engine quoted was 120 years ago

would you honestly if it were you own cash and car ?

 

 

or better still would you put it in your wife's car? mine would kick the bejesus out of me if i went near her's with a bottle of crisp n dry

or better still would you put it in your wife's car? mine would kick the bejesus out of me if i went near her's with a bottle of crisp n dry

 

totally, over a decent mileage you would probably still make a saving even if you went through a set of injectors or a fuel pump every year.

 

Modern common rail dervs can't generally be run on veg oil, but most old skool ones can, all ones with bosch pumps can. I actually know someone who is running their bm 330d on veg atm against everybodies advice, but it seems to be fine for him so far, time will tell how long it lasts before the high pressure pump fails of the injectors pack in.

13k's worth (at the time) of 02 VW GTTDI ...tried and tested by someone i know very well ;-) he says it Pulls better too. granted this was after someone else tried it on an old peugot for a while with no ill effects to ensure peace of mind! No more than 50% mix though especially in winter. Prices of oil went up and the savings wern't there for him 18 months ago but he reckons it might be time to consider it again ;-)

 

Best way is to get it converted to run 100%. All it does is pre-heat the oil as the viscosity is too thick 'as is', hence why most people blend it. With a conversion you have two tanks and it primes the fuel pump with Diesel before you switch off so that you're starting on diesel and then it switches when the engine is warm...

 

 

Take a look at http://www.dieselveg.com/ the way forward...!!

I've read a bit about it too but don't think I'd trust it on the limited long term research I've seen so far. Like you said thickening in the cold is the problem also possible soot build up . none of 07's manufactures by what I had read will warrant a car that uses it (more than 5% mix) . Does seem and excellent alternative and cheap too if you can filter your own used stuff but if I had spent a lot of hard earned cash on a car I loved I think i'd be using the v power or another premium fuel.

i cant understand why people pay 30 40 50k for cars and run them on chip fat to save a few quid :confused:

I used this in my pickup first time by accident and nearly died when I had to pay, but I now use it all the time because the truck is so much more responsive and I'm getting an extra 64 MPG from a full tank which actually makes it cheeper than the normal Derv.

 

V power Diesel is really works and is more cost effective.

i cant understand why people pay 30 40 50k for cars and run them on chip fat to save a few quid :confused:

 

Why do you think they can afford to spend 30 40 50k on a car? :rofl:

I used to run my old Xantia on about 30% veg and it was fine. Engine was definitely quieter and smoother, but power dropped off a little a consumption dropped a bit the more veg you use. Reckon it dropped from about 44 - 41 mpg.

 

My 330d specifically states in the manual that it is not to be run on any biofuel, so I haven't experimented with that (yet!).

 

Anyway, here is the list of places the V Power diesel is available.

Loads in Wales then! a grand total of Two Petrol stations in Newport and they're listed under 'South West'...Somebody told me heating oil is 40p a litre and mixes better and cheaper with veg oil to give a resonable 'blend'...