Yes, I know it's against the law....
2006-09-03 08:15:49 · 15 answers · asked by KWB 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Its not necessarily against the law - using any fuel on which the duty has not been paid is against the law in the UK, but you can pay the duty on cooking oil to the government, and that makes it legal.
Don't use it in a new or recent car, except in very small amounts (up to 5% mix with normal diesel). Any car with common-rail or Pumpe-Duse injection will have problems with it, as will some earlier-designed engines with direct injection using a rotary pump. Indirect-injection engines will have less problems.
See http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php for more information.
2006-09-04 01:06:46 · answer #1 · answered by Neil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I teach motor vehicle as a subject and simply yes it can work as diesel is basically a heavy oil fuel, you do have to add various other thing too though. but having been in the trade for 15yrs plus and removing so many fuel delivery pumps due to been ran on cooking oil. you see cooking oil doesn't have the same lubrication properties as diesel and its additives have, and the delivery pump is a finely manufactured piece of equipment that without proper lubrication it fails rapidly at a cost of anywhere between £500 and upwards of £2000 depending on what you drive. lets face it its just not worth it.
2006-09-03 08:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by st01mpy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are people all over the world who do this and are in all the local news... They have to modify the car to get the correct settings, and sometimes add other ingredients to the oil, and if really serious have a refinery system to clean the oil first ( sitting in the garage ), but it works really well. The ones I see on the news have a pick up system with local shops and restaraunts, who are happy to get rid of the waste....
2006-09-03 08:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Daphne, Alabama, U.S.A. The city has set up a central location to gather used cooking oil and convert it to useable fuel for the citie's maintenance vehicles. Cost is appx $1.00 per gallon to refine. Details may be on the city web site -- very interesting news story on this only last week.
PS - they make decorative soaps from the byproducts.
2006-09-03 08:42:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ran my car for about a year on cooking oil I "procured" from a messhall in a RAF camp. All it needs is a little bit of parrafin to mix with the oil. Your exhaust fumes will smell a little odd tho.
2006-09-03 08:27:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a science project a UBC and most of there vehicles run on cooking oil. UBC is University of British Columbia.
2006-09-03 12:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by twentyeight7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a show on spike TV where they ran a disel truck on cooking oil,so yes it is possible,but it has to be filtered ad the truck had more horsepower
2006-09-03 08:21:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a friend who has a milk round, he runs his van off veg oil which is perfectly legal, van runs like a dream, but stinks to high heaven !
2006-09-03 08:33:25 · answer #8 · answered by denise k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep,has to be filtered and a bit of methanol added,it doesnt have as much power as regular diesel and smells like Macdonalds coming down the street.
2006-09-03 09:18:48 · answer #9 · answered by frank m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive seen it on TV, and mythbusters ran a mecedes diesel, on straight used cooking oil, but they did strain it first, look on discovery.com
2006-09-03 08:25:38 · answer #10 · answered by phllipe b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋