Diesel shed's that can run on cooking oil...
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After some seriously cheap motoring. What would you recommend that is under £1000 but is so old tech it can run on almost anything?
Couple of examples I can think of;
VW Polo TDi Estate;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-VOLKSWAGEN-POLO-CL-...
Peugeot 306 Diesel;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1995-PEUGEOT-306-1-9-D-T...
Couple of examples I can think of;
VW Polo TDi Estate;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-VOLKSWAGEN-POLO-CL-...
Peugeot 306 Diesel;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1995-PEUGEOT-306-1-9-D-T...
EDLT said:
The Peugeot can't run on pure cooking oil. But the Citroen ZX/Xantia that had the same engine can because it uses a different fuel pump.
Not correct.Our company shed, 406 Estate, has just done 110K miles in 2 years. It runs on 100% waste oil, 365 days of the year. It has not been serviced, had any work done or washed in that time. All it has had is 4 new tyres.
Admittedly, in cold weather it drives like a bucking kangaroo on a pogo stick, but when it costs 0p a mile to run, who cares.
smele
Fifth gear did a feature a few years back where they ran a 250D on vegetable oil 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZX2BRdXkzA
ETA - Where do people get their vegetable oil? Do people really go into a chippy and ask "can I have your waste oil"? If they don't give it away, do they otherwise have to pay to dispose of it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZX2BRdXkzA
ETA - Where do people get their vegetable oil? Do people really go into a chippy and ask "can I have your waste oil"? If they don't give it away, do they otherwise have to pay to dispose of it?
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 25th December 14:27
Mid-90's Renault 19 TurboDiesel.
I've run mine on new cooking oil, old cooking oil filtered and thinned 10:1 with petrol, biodiesel and normal diesel. Never missed a beat, it's indestructible. And does 50mpg to boot.
Bought my first for £500, ran for 3 years with little maintenance and succumbed to Tin-worm.
Bought my 2nd for £210, and since Sept 08 it's cost me a windscreen, rad and a section of exhaust, plus servicing.
Probably the cheapest car to run on this entire site. I have a reasonable detailed summary of costs and it's around 20p per mile, all told, IIRC.
I've run mine on new cooking oil, old cooking oil filtered and thinned 10:1 with petrol, biodiesel and normal diesel. Never missed a beat, it's indestructible. And does 50mpg to boot.
Bought my first for £500, ran for 3 years with little maintenance and succumbed to Tin-worm.
Bought my 2nd for £210, and since Sept 08 it's cost me a windscreen, rad and a section of exhaust, plus servicing.
Probably the cheapest car to run on this entire site. I have a reasonable detailed summary of costs and it's around 20p per mile, all told, IIRC.
SuperHangOn said:
Agreed.Way more reliable than the C-Class. Bulletproof diesel lump and cheap enough to fix if something goes wrong.
Pretty much anything with a mechanical fuel pump will be fine, personally ran a mk2 diesel Mondeo estate for 8 months on pure veg oil, in the colder winter months it ran on oil plus a splash of diesel/aircraft fuel/central heating oil to thin it down a bit. Ran an Astra van (1.7 turbo vauxhall engine) on pure veg for 6 months with no ill effects.
Buy a car cheap enough & it will pay for itself in weeks the amount you save on fuel.
Buy a car cheap enough & it will pay for itself in weeks the amount you save on fuel.
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