Anyone ran their car on cooking oil

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soundboy - 28 Nov 2007 08:01 GMT

Hi all,
Just wondering if anybody uses Cooking oil over Diesel. Heard a story
recently or a couple who went to Morrisons (two trolleys) and filled their
trolleys with boxes of cooking oil and left the trolleys full of empty boxes
and empty cooking containers.

The price of diesel is now through the roof (I'm also aware petrol is the
same)

There are FOURish important questions here:-

{Cooking oil}

1..........Does it damage your engine (plus how long can it be ran on it)
2..........Would your car smell of the local chippy
3..........Is it legal to use.
4..........Would the car pass the emmission test

SB

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Rexx Magnus - 28 Nov 2007 10:44 GMT

> 1..........Does it damage your engine (plus how long can it be ran
> on it)

Potentially. The main thing is that it is thicker than diesel and
can have problems with clogging if the weather is cold. A blend of
oil and diesel would be better.

>2..........Would your car smell of the local chippy

Yes, it does have a distinctive smell.

> 3..........Is it legal to use.

Technically, not - as you're bypassing the tax paid for regular
fuels.

> 4..........Would the car pass the emmission test

Probably. Diesel logbooks simply show 'heavy oil' as the fuel type,
and I'm not sure if there is a technical difference between using
sunflower oil/diesel mix and fuel sold as biofuel.

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caveman_si - 28 Nov 2007 16:48 GMT

> Hi all,
> Just wondering if anybody uses Cooking oil over Diesel. Heard a story
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>
> 1..........Does it damage your engine (plus how long can it be ran on it)

Depends on the engine. Some cars run perfectly on it with not issues
what so ever, others will get trashed by just one litre of veg oil.
Do some research into it.

> 2..........Would your car smell of the local chippy

A little bit, also smells like a bbq abit too. Better then the smell
of diesel.

> 3..........Is it legal to use.

Yes perfectly legal to use. If you use less then 2500ltr per year
then you dont have to do anything. If you use more then that then you
have to register with HMRC and pay the duty on it.

> 4..........Would the car pass the emmission test

Yes. In fact aanectodatally a fully operational car running on veg
oil will as a rule produce lower emisssions then on standard diesel fo
the mot.

For more information have a look at : http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
or http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums

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