| Overland Tonka |
14 May 2014 17:43 |
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Originally Posted by Senno
(Post 466132)
Can of worms? Is it contentious? I know in the UK it's legal to use cooking oil or anything else in your vehicle as long as you inform HMRC and pay the requisite amount of tax based on how much you use.
That makes using full price new cooking oil hardly worth it, but very cheap or free used oil could work if its not too hard or expensive to clean it.
I'm all ears as to how to do it :)
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The law has changed on used cooking oil......the government could not check or prove how much you used, so they have given up...go ahead, fill your boots. Plenty of suppliers out there, but the problem is can you trust them to filter it right??
As for new cooking oil stop shopping in waitrose and get down to your 99p shop..yep 99p a litre. Or tescos does 5ltr bottles for £5. Do remember that you can't just stick it in a landrover without mods...you can in a 1990's Toyota with no mods at all.. Happy days. You do get very strange looks when your in the 99p shop and you ask for 60 bottles and clear their shelves and stockroom.
Just do it bit by bit to check all is ok if your worried. 80% diesel 20% oil. Then 60-40. Then 50-50. Etc etc. best to not run 100% in winter as the oil gets thic. 50-50 is ok though as I understand uk garages add something extra to diesel to stop it freezing.
Here is a link to the Toyota surf forum which talks about veg oil...it starts with a nice history lesson and has a link to a veg oil users forum.
http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15893 |
