stubbsy05
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Going to be collecting 20 litrres of used fitlered vegetable oil tonight and start running my Vento TDI (1.9 90bhp) car on it.
400 miles a week at 60p a litre- should start seeing the saving!
Going for 50/50 mix of it with diesel to start off!
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
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keep us updated
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
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Guy in work does this with his mk4 golf! Good luck, he spends absolutely bugger all on fuel, something like 30/40pence a litre!
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Tarrantino
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is it legal to do this?
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Huwsi
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Registered: 27th Apr 07
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Yes but you have to declare it 
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Russ
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yes aslong as you inform dvla as you need to pay fuel tax on the veggy oil
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stubbsy05
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I'm buying it all legit signing forms and invoices etc. Whiittie what mix does yur work colleague use or does heuse it straight?
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Superlite Ltd.
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AHU engine ftw
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Alex.S
I'm buying it all legit signing forms and invoices etc. Whiittie what mix does yur work colleague use or does heuse it straight?
I'll ask him when he pop's up on messenger mate, i've got two weeks off atm.
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Shelly
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I knew they'd find a way to tax you on it.
Good luck btw
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Rob E
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50/50 is perfect mate, make sure it has been filtered/cleaned properly. A friend tried running his fiesta diesel on the stuff and stopped running due to dirty oil
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stubbsy05
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The guy selling it is running his ford ranger on it with no probs.
And as confirmed by Superlite its an AHU engine in the vento
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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quote: Originally posted by Russ
yes aslong as you inform dvla as you need to pay fuel tax on the veggy oil
i'm sure you can use so much every year undeclared and pay no tax...
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S@M
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Registered: 3rd Oct 07
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just get yourself down to tesco and buy lots,
mix in garage at home,
and knowbody knows any different
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Bonney
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As i heared a bloke in the scrappy say, If its got a red "I" on the back, get it running on cherry
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nova_gteuk
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Registered: 15th May 02
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You can run it on fresh clean veg oil if you have the conversion 
I was thinking of getting a mitsubishi shogun and running it on veg oil when my bans up and keeping it hush hush lol
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stubbsy05
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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put in 15 litres diesel and 10 litres Used veg oil. Done around 60 miles so far!
Theres a limit on hour much you can use per year tax free. Howevere the limit is enough to allow you to do 22,000+ easy!
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Oh please, if I was doing 50k a year on the stuff I'd pay for it with cash and fuck the government off with it
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Anton2K3
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Registered: 24th Jan 03
Location: Peterborough
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There is an allowance of 'x' amount of litres which doesn't have to be declared. So as long as you stay under that by paying cash, who's gonna know!
[Edited on 19-05-2008 by Anton2K3]
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ianic SRi
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dad did it in his old bedford mini for ages without declaring it, was about 3/4 years ago now though so the police/dvla weren't really up to scratch on it. Very easy way to save a bit of money. When i get my van i'll hopefully be running it on this
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