Me too.That is the problem "it is always easy to do what is easy - but more difficult to what is hard and still have an opinion".
People vote with their feet - there spending habits. Then other people don't vote...
Gracefully withdrawing from this...
Seems like they haven’t got any lorries in my area , and I am just a few postcodes away from you …. But how the f can it be £2.40 inc a litre , it’s now time to start filling up with road derv , save 50p a litre .View attachment 336687
Earlier they couldn’t deliver due to demand but apparently they can now at just £1.99ppl!
Blimey.
This must be driven by people panic buying causing a spike in orders and the suppliers capitalising and taking the **** price wise.
DERV contains several % of FAME etc, it doesn't store well.
Totally.
Who knows Matt?
It doesnt last long enough in our tank to worry about storage. The POs installed a 1200 litre tank to fuel 3 boilers...
Dont know, its not that bad. I once tried it in a 1999 renualt, put 50% veg in an empty tank, it ran ok. Within a few days the gearbox bearing went while reversing, common problem with them, I never got a chance to know if its any good and that was my last car before I went over to bikes.
Not scientific but I have run my 200tdi Landy on SVO from tesco for years. Probably done in excess of 100k miles on various veg oils. The engine is excellent. Runs really well on diesel, same performance on sunflower and seems marginally better on rapeseed oil. Economy is the same on all of them measuring miles from a brimmed full tank. Will sit 80 on any of the above (have an overdrive fitted) (- on French motorways of course...). The only difference is that in colder weather its a bit lumpy till it warms up. FIP was overhauled a few years back - no reports of gum in the pump and I had the head off a couple of years ago as the HG went and the bores and internals were very good - still see the honing marks.
I did joke about it with my mate , to which he said it would be a simple case of possibly fitting a new jet and shushing the fuel pressure , but as far as it goes the calorific value / burn rate is nion the same . Nothing dramatic, as my oil burner is an old Wallstar , so no fancy parts to be upset by it ….
My oil boilers must be 25 years old so nothing fancy there either. Hmmmm.
Shouldn’t be a problem , just need a decent engineer / plumber , it’s no different than settings and adjustment when servicing , new jets .
Heating oil is generally 28 second
