Veg oil heads up:

[Cavcraft]

Costco are doing 20 litres of Kerfoot veg oil for £15.99 and no VAT to add. Sod's law dictates I've just bought some elsewhere for £1.00 per litre, but I'm going to join Costco I think.

[oman5]

typical, I've got nowt that can use it. our 306 has a lucas pump

[Lankytim]

You can use a little mixed with diesel I think...

[Jim Bell]

Bah. Someone sell me an Isuzu Corsa pls.

[overrun]

Good deal!

 

I remember when it was about £12 for 20 litres, but let's not go there...

 

(FYI: I am sure you can join Costco for £20 p/a)

[Station]

I'm hoping to have a diesel soon, this chip fat thing is too good to miss.

[Lacquer Peel]

There's no such thing as chip fat.

[overrun]

S.V.O if you please!

[Cavcraft]

Either £20 or £25 to join Costco I think, so assuming you buy enough veg in a year (plus whatever other shit they sell) it's got to be worth it I would think.

 

One of my local Tesco's stores seems to have stopped doing the 15 litres for £15.99 steel drums, but that is a little more per litre of course. Tesco's best current deal seems to be the 2x5 litre bottles for a tenner (£6 each normally) which obviously works out at £1.00 per litre.

[overrun]

When I was last using it (over a year ago) Makro was the cheapest, at £18 for 20L of KTC branded stuff.

 

Chef's Choice was an extra quid. Despite the excellent name, I didn't consider my Peugeot to be worthy.

[Sigmund Fraud]

You can use a little mixed with diesel I think...

 

Internet experts say anything above 5% will definitely bork a Lucas pump. So tread with caution...

[drinksoptional]

I use the farmfoods £9.95 for 10 ltrs veg oil in my mk1 2.8td isuzu wish i had a costco card now,  i drive by a shell at £1.41 looking at new modern ment to be  eco friendly cant use bio or veg  cars buy that non enviromental friendly  expensive stuff 

[cms206]

I too am dieselless just now, but that is a fuggin barg. Costco in Glasgow supply and fit tyres too, SWMBO is being sent up for a card shortly.

[Cavcraft]

I had a BX with a Lucas pump, put 5 litres of veg in (with diesel) and it went haywire.

[8_tee_8]

I too am dieselless just now, but that is a fuggin barg. Costco in Glasgow supply and fit tyres too, SWMBO is being sent up for a card shortly.

Costco are the best for veg oil but their tyre prices are eye watering IMO. Compared to part worms especially

[Bobthebeard]

Been a bit wary of using SVO after a nasty experience using it (at 10%) back in 2009 in a 1999 Discovery Td5.

It ran for half a day then wouldn't even start. Took a day of buggering about to get it to run again. Never used it since. However as I no longer own anything diesel this is irrelevant I guess!

[Cavcraft]

Costco: £16.49 for 20 litres.

[Lacquer Peel]

Been a bit wary of using SVO after a nasty experience using it (at 10%) back in 2009 in a 1999 Discovery Td5.

It ran for half a day then wouldn't even start. Took a day of buggering about to get it to run again. Never used it since. However as I no longer own anything diesel this is irrelevant I guess!

It's a unit injection diesel, so not surprising it went haywire.

[londonm]

Do your cars smell like chip shops? Sounds mad!

[warren t claim]

Do any of these wholesalers have a limit to how much you can bulk buy?

[Cavcraft]

Probably not, though turning in up in your Renault Magnum with a 40 foot box might be stretching it.

[flat4alfa]

I bought 3x 10 litre bottles from Farmfoods

 

All went into the XM

 

Smelt nice. smoothed out the running too.

 

Didn't tell taxman though.  Forgot.

[skattrd]

I think I read that you are allowed to use up to 2500 litres of veg or whatever without telling the tax man.

[garbaldy]

You are allowed to use 2500 litres of biodiesel made from waste oil tax free but only for private use. How they would police it though is a mistery.

 

It is unethical and frowned upon by the bio brigade to use oil intended for human consumtion, the prefered method is waste as there is still places tipping it down the sink,

Up to 10 years ago I was buying new veg and selling to chippys while removing there waste, I then filtered it and sold it at 20p a litre as I couldn't ever use that much, In the end I got so sick of the mess and hastle I sold all my filtering gear and 8k litres of waste veg,

I won't go past a garage now far easier and cleaner.

[Cavcraft]

That's why I'm hanging back from putting it in my van. Although its privately used I don't fancy getting dipped and discovering I've broken the law and getting a £500+ fine.

[garbaldy]

You should be able to use it in your van aslong as your records are in order down to the litre date time.

I have never heard of anyone being done for bio yet or even had there records checked.

[warren t claim]

Can't believe that veg is now cheaper than cherry.

[barmatt]

I used veg in my land rovers for the past 4 years but like Garbaldy I've given up using wvo because of the mess and rats chewed their way into my shed and ate through a lot of the equipment.

 

As said, you are allowed to use up to 2500l per year for domestic use, The only record I have ever kept is a little notebook in the vehicle with dates and quantities of the amount of veg used. I've never had to fabricate this a I don't do many miles per year but if you did there really is no way of them proving how many miles you've driven on veg and how many on diesel so go for it.

[forddeliveryboy]

I used veg in my land rovers for the past 4 years but like Garbaldy I've given up using wvo because of the mess and rats chewed their way into my shed and ate through a lot of the equipment.

 

 

This was plastic equipment, I take it? Otherwise I'll warn my terriers.

[barmatt]

This was plastic equipment, I take it? Otherwise I'll warn my terriers.

It was plastic drums and sock filters, they chewed through the lid of one of my 'settling' drums and fallen in to get to the oil. Made me feel a little better to find a few of the little bastards dead in the bottom of the drum