What are you experiences?
What do yoy pay, where do you buy it?
What vehicle do you drive?
Do you pay tax on the SVO?
2006-10-01 23:14:30 · 4 answers · asked by David T 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
My son has been using Soy diesel. It burns cleaner. He has now went back to #2 diesel. He misses the Poof of black smoke that billows out his '05 dodge 3/4 ton ram with the high output cummins. He has a 34 gallon tank and it has been running about $100. The fuel prices have dropped a little and it now is around $2.51 a gallon. Only certain gas stations carry that particular fuel. That is another reason why he went back to #2~ availability. He was making good milage with it, tho. Around 2 miles more to the gallon. Hope this give you a little insight?
2006-10-02 02:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by All 4 JR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get yourself a Mercedes diesel the ultimate in SVO burning. Will run on straight SVO throughout summer with a bit of diluting with diesel for the colder months. In the UK the tax is 27.1p per litre though it seems to be at the discretion of your local C&E office as to whether they up this to 40p. All of this tax is a grey area, do some reading up, loads of sites are now up in the UK with good info. The other posts regards pumps are quite correct, the Merc pump being an in-line design is far better/stronger than the rotary types. If however you go to the trouble of fitting a heated tank even the weaker pumps will cope fairly well as it is the increased viscosity of the veg oil they struggle with. Cheapest option is to filter used veg oil from your local chippy. Otherwise ASDA £1.62 for 3 litres. The hardest part of all of it is the leap in faith required to pour in your first litre. Go on get some in your tank today, you will find the car will run quieter and have more torque. Any diesel car will run with no trouble at all on 5-10% veg oil. Just increase the % over a few days untill you feel there is a reduction in power/difficulty in starting and then dilute again. Ambient temp will however play a big part so always leave enough room in the tank for a dilution. The other thing is to get an in-line filter in place before your main diesel filter as the veg oil has a cleaning effect on the tank, killing the black fungal/bacterial growth that occurs in the tank and causing it to slough off.
BTW second favourite for veg oil has to be a normally aspirated older peugeot as they have a water heated diesel filter. Which be utlised in other diesels with very little effort.
2006-10-05 01:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by goatmaster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
look at your diesel pump, if its lucas i was told not to do it as it wiil soon ware out if its bosch then your on a winner. i wanted to run my car on 70% diesel and 30% oil
http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
join this web site
good luck
2006-10-01 23:20:46 · answer #3 · answered by Rolfe66 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some do some don't just look at the pump
2006-10-03 05:32:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋