Bio Diesel.
 

With the ever increasing price of petrol & diesel i was wondering if anyone on accyweb uses or has used Bio Diesel. If you have`nt would you ? if you do would you recommend it...?

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A friend of mine has his cars modified for this as soon as he buys them - oh and he doesnt go for a nice little car - he was driving jags round. And he says it works out cheaper for him to get them modified. He gets it in hassy off carrs industrial estate.

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Are you sure he uses Bio Diesel and not Gas? as far as i am aware most new cars don`t need modifying for Bio Diesel but they do for gas, i also know someone who uses gas and he save quite a bit, i think its about £1500 for the conversion and 60 odd p a litre, whereas at the monment Bio iesel is about 97.9p per litre.

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I use Gas, it is around 1500 to convert but gas is only 51.9p/litre. I drive a 200bhp 2.5 turbo volvo and achieve teh same as 50mpg at quick motorway speeds

There are Diesel Jags but I do think in this case its an LPG conversion.

I believe Neil of this parish ran on Bio diesel for a while, I'm sure he will be along to comment soon

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he told me to keep going to the chippy seeing as that is what his was running on ....

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could have been a home brew diesel conversion as a few have been done but then its not a proper Jag! ;)

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stupid question Ian but could you not have both gas and petrol in a jag with most of them having two fuel tanks?

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whilst its technically possible its not likely. To make a engine run on gas and diesel it has to be a diesel engine to start with and you then have to add a full spark ignition system to it. There is one Taxi in accy funny enough that is a diesel one that can run on gas but it was done at great cost as an experiment to show it was possible. I have NEVER heard of another gas/DERV engines car in any of teh LPG forums I go on.

PS, you gan't put gas in a 'standard' tank. it needs a pressureised cylinder or toroidal tank.

PPS, I don't think that modern jags still have that twin tank system.....

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All conversions will run on gas and petrol, not diesel though

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ahhhhhhhhhhhh i didnt know that

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I had a 1986 and they had done away with the twin tanks then, could possibly still have em on the big engined models, mine was only a baby jag with a 3.6 in it :D

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my mates fella used to buy old jags, do them up then sell them on, they where mainly older ones, he had some gorgeous looking ones though

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Mines not so gorgeous now, was bought by an insurance fraudster, wrapped it up with a BMW, 7 occupants total in both cars all with back/neck injuries, had fraud squad round here, ringleader/buyer of the two cars got jailed, not sure what happened to the rest - the fraud guys were the best people I have ever spoken to about cars/driving, told me of the latest scam etc that were going round at the time and what to watch out for

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chuffin ell :eek:

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sorry flashy, I actually mis read your post. Yes, all gas converted cars keep a petrol tank, some choose to remove the original one and fit a small one so they can use the space for the gas tank(Mainly 4x4's). My Volvo holds 15 gallons of LPG and 15 gallons of Petrol. If I was to fill both I could drive for > 800 miles without stopping(wee permitting! :D )

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that doesnt have to be a problem :D

Travel John, Travel John Jnr, Urinals, Urinal Aids

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I take it nobody uses or has used it then........:confused:

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we have used it once and vowed never to use it again, exhaust kicked loadsa smoke out and it smelt awful.......maybe it was the car, also at the time it was not all that much cheaper.

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I do believe your exhaust gives out a bit of a smell only likened to KFC....!!!LOL

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KFC or a well used chip pan.............

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My dad had a VW beetle from new, which he eventually gave to me.
He saved money by substituting underseal treatment with the contents of the chip pan.
That car smelt of chips for the whole of it's existance

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I used to use biodiesel in my 300TDI defender. It ran fine off of it and smelt lovely. I got mine from this company in Burnley Eco Bio Diesel - Homepage
I also ran on a 50/50 mix of veg oil and diesel which also worked very well, but you do have to pay extra tax on it and declare your usage. Its much easier just to use legally produced biodiesel that has the duty already paid.

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Why not run on a 50/50 virgin veg oil and bio diesel? I doubt they could tell the difference if you were stopped and dipped.

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Great , thanx for that, thinking of giving it a go.

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Out of interest what is your car?
It says in the handbook of mine not to use it.

Also why do you want to use bio? Because it is cheaper or greener?

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Just seen this post, can't see anyone wanting to convert a diesel to gas, the engine wouldn't last 2 mins, compression ratios are totally different on gas and petrol cars to diesel ones, diesels aren't built to rev as much as petrol/gas either, put petrol in a diesel engine, compress it, ignite it and stand well clear :)
You sure it isn't a diesel/gas mix in the taxi? thats possible but doesn't save you a great deal so people don't bother getting it done

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pretty sure, if you hear it running you would say it was a petrol engined one. I had a good natter with teh bloke who did it. I got the jist that he wanted to do it just to prove he could.

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Renault Scenic.............and because it is cheaper.

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How new is it?

I would do a lot of reading if I was you before using it on an expensive vehicle vegetableoildiesel.co.uk - Renault Scenic 1.9 DCI RX4 - Powered by XMB

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its a 2005, cheers for the link. i have been looking into it and done plenty of research, just wanted any opinions from accy webbers who may have used it.

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when safeway was on the go they used to have a couple of class one trucks that ran on lpg.they have to run about 20% diesel to supply the spark to ignite the gas

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Think you got that the wrong way round, diesel won't ignite with a spark :D

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I think he was trying to say the diesel burnt under compression to ignite the LPG

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LOL, did reply at 06:13 this morning :)

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The car manufactures in Germany advice not to use the bio diesel unless you get a certain addative for the stuff.The bio diesel could ruin your diesel pump.