I'm playing around with NOTHING! I am tarting up some paintwork and thats about it. I primed, resprayed and lacquered a bit of the rear wiper arm which had gone back to bare silver metal.... Came up quite good.

Been shopping this evening. Always funny how my shopping revolves around fuel as well. Bonus tonight though as Tesco down to 97p a litre, from 98p before.

Have you tried asking down your local chippy if they have any old going spare?

97p a litre is good, but 0p would be even better!!

I'm sure you can better 97p Jase! As said, the Chippy or somewhere a bit more wholesale. Got a Costco card?

Or Aldi/Netto/Lidl.

Or http://goo.gl/PkpAe - search by nearest first

You can't run it on used veg oil. I would need some kind of mega expensive filtration system to be able to do that sadly, and its probably not worth the outlay, especially for me as this is a courtesy car. The oil needs to be pure, and new.

Cheers for the link,

I think you are supposed to volunteer to pay the Excise duty if you are using vegitable oil for fuel or heating or keep adequate records which is a pain.

You can smell a vehicle running on vegitable oil. The RFTU do this work. There is a deminimus level or it is an absolute offence. Worth doing an annon call to the HMRC National call centre as to what records you are suppose to keep. They can seize the vehicle also if the wish. Done it myself for other customs offences. Just keeping iy legal.

From HMRC website......

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Road Fuel Testing Units

The detection of rebated oil in road vehicles as fuel is carried out by the Road Fuel Testing Unit (RFTU).

The RFTU is equipped as a mobile laboratory to enable samples of road fuel to be taken and field tested at the roadside or at commercial premises for the presence of a prescribed marker.

There are 17 RFTUs manned by 34 crews based in the regions. Each RFTU is staffed by a Testing officer and an Assistant Testing Officer.

The work of the RFTU is co-ordinated by a Road Fuel Control Officer (RFCO)

Detection Road Fuel Testing Units (RFTUs) test for drivers’ compliance with HODA.

It is a criminal offence to:

Use oil, other than un-rebated heavy oil such as DERV or Ultra Low Sulphur diesel, to fuel “road vehicles” (The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979, section 13)

Remove the prescribed chemical marker or dye from any oil (Hydrocarbon Oil Marking Regulations 2002)

Add any substance to the oil to prevent the prescribed chemical marker being identified. (Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002).

An officer can require any person concerned with the use or supply of any oil to provide a sample of that oil for test (Hydrocarbon Oil Regulations 1973, Regulation 47) and it is a criminal offence to obstruct an officer from obtaining an oil sample (Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, section 16).

Edited 11 May, 201115 yr by lol

Thought about looking in Aldi/Lidl Jas, veg oil must be cheaper in places like that?

Would it also be cheaper to buy the 20 litre barrels?

Bulk buying then.

Jason, a good double dose of millers an oil/filter change and a new paper air filter will have you good if it's running slow.

I think you are supposed to volunteer to pay the Excise duty if you are using vegitable oil for fuel or heating or keep adequate records which is a pain.

Nope, you can use a certain amount per year before you have to pay any extra duty. Since jason is only using it for a while, i doubt he`ll use more than the limit tbh

Matt

"VOLUNTEER" to pay fuel duty?! I would rather use a sander on the end of my todger thanks! (although some people of a certain disposition may actually do that....)

Still worth keeping a log of how much you've used so if you get pulled you can show the logs and make like easier for yourself.

Worth putting a mixed tank in there from time to time too.

Decided this morning to give (half) the bus a bit of a machine polishing. proper quick job with just a sweep with the clay, then machined with autoglym SRP. Managed to get some reasonable results bearing in mind this thing has not seen a polisher since it was new (I reckon)

Roof "spoiler"

Right, off to shoot some clay pigeons and catch the cup final in a pub in Exeter.