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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: X30XE on 16 February 2017, 01:30:48
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...I have today purchased a Peugeot/Vauxhall OOF compliant car, for the frankly extortionate sum of £205. :D
Exhibit A muh lord :
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt133/011011011/Pug%20406%20aka%20Clarice/Web_zpspbudpnim.jpg)
160k Miles... yeah right! and the rest! Must have been clocked before 2006 as the MOT history adds up. Clearly been a taxi for some of it's life.
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Does that £205 include the oil? :D
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Does that £205 include the oil? :D
Yuck Fou :)
There's even a little gauge on the dash that tells you how much smoke fluid is in reserve ;D
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Nice car :y
Sturdy old workhorse the 406, got one in the family with 170k miles on it.
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Does that £205 include the oil? :D
Yuck Fou :)
There's even a little gauge on the dash that tells you how much smoke fluid is in reserve ;D
:P
Looks alright, is it an earlier one? Looks tidy enough under all that rain :y
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Looks tidy!
If it's the diseasel then the 90's had no dmf (but are pretty sedate). The 110's are better but come with dmf. Still at £200 I doubt you'll be too bothered and at 160k it's probably already had one!
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Nowadays if it has any mot and costs less than £700 then you've done ok :y
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...I have today purchased a Peugeot/Vauxhall OOF compliant car, for the frankly extortionate sum of £205. :D
Exhibit A muh lord :
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt133/011011011/Pug%20406%20aka%20Clarice/Web_zpspbudpnim.jpg)
160k Miles... yeah right! and the rest! Must have been clocked before 2006 as the MOT history adds up. Clearly been a taxi for some of it's life.
I ran a 110 hdi 406 to 230k and it still drove superbly when I sold it right up till the new keeper took on a lorry and lost :-X :-\
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Looks tidy!
If it's the diseasel then the 90's had no dmf (but are pretty sedate). The 110's are better but come with dmf. Still at £200 I doubt you'll be too bothered and at 160k it's probably already had one!
It's certainly sedate. Takes an eternity to get up to motorway speed but once it's there it chumps along just fine. Handling is erm... slithery... but it isn't phased by potholes at all. XUDT engine, S reg.
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Saw a tidy W reg Xantia estate this morning... First one in ages, world must be going French :D
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(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/194936280_e54c21752b.jpg)
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Pretty sure that engine will run on 100%, as long as it has a Bosch pump. Could be very cheap motoring. ;)
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205 quid, he must have seen you coming. ::)
Notice theres pictures of the side or the back of the car, thats because from the rear doors backwards the paint code is Red.
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Pretty sure that engine will run on 100%, WVO as long as it has a Bosch pump. Could be very cheap motoring. ;)
Sorry, fixed. :-[ ::)
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Pretty sure that engine will run on 100%, as long as it has a Bosch pump. Could be very cheap motoring. ;)
Yep the old XUD lump will run on just about anything,don't try it with the hdi though cause that one won't :y
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205 quid, he must have seen you coming. ::)
Notice theres pictures of the side or the back of the car, thats because from the rear doors backwards the paint code is Red.
Fifty shades of Blue :)
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Pretty sure that engine will run on 100%, WVO as long as it has a Bosch pump. Could be very cheap motoring. ;)
Sorry, fixed. :-[ ::)
When it does 50+mpg anyway i'll not be risking the £1000 fine for dodging fuel duty me thinks :P
Sedate is an understatement by the way... there are faster glaciers.
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No risk of a fine whatsoever. It is perfectly legal to use up to 2500 litres of vegoil for fuel per year, as long as its for personal use and not being sold on to others. No duty is payable unbtil you exceed 2500 litres p.a. You just need to keep a record of where you got it from, as there is a very slight chance the authorities might ask at some point. ;)
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No risk of a fine whatsoever. It is perfectly legal to use up to 2500 litres of vegoil for fuel per year, as long as its for personal use and not being sold on to others. No duty is payable unbtil you exceed 2500 litres p.a. You just need to keep a record of where you got it from, as there is a very slight chance the authorities might ask at some point. ;)
Well as interesting to know as that is, it's still not worth it for me. It'll only do a couple of thousand miles in my ownership and I'd rather not stress the fuel pump trying to move something with the viscosity of toffee when I can just get lovely convenient non bacteria growing good old carcinogenic diesel out of a hose on a forecourt :D
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Dunno what kind of oil they cook chips in where you come from, but what goes in my tank is a lovely light coloured golden liquid, filtered to 1 micron, which is more refined than what comes out of the pump on your local forecourt. ::)
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Pretty sure that engine will run on 100%, WVO as long as it has a Bosch pump. Could be very cheap motoring. ;)
Sorry, fixed. :-[ ::)
When it does 50+mpg anyway i'll not be risking the £1000 fine for dodging fuel duty me thinks :P
Sedate is an understatement by the way... there are faster glaciers.
I'm assuming its a 90 bhp job then as the 110 is quite sprightly,even more so when chipped ::)
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Dunno what kind of oil they cook chips in where you come from, but what goes in my tank is a lovely light coloured golden liquid, filtered to 1 micron, which is more refined than what comes out of the pump on your local forecourt. ::)
Are you seriously trying to argue that cooking oil is less viscous than diesel? ::) And as I said, real diesel doesn't sustain bacterial growth in the tank/lines/filter.
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Dunno what kind of oil they cook chips in where you come from, but what goes in my tank is a lovely light coloured golden liquid, filtered to 1 micron, which is more refined than what comes out of the pump on your local forecourt. ::)
Are you seriously trying to argue that cooking oil is less viscous than diesel? ::) And as I said, real diesel doesn't sustain bacterial growth in the tank/lines/filter.
If you can find it... Retail diesel is legally obliged to contain a percentage of biodiesel :'(
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Dunno what kind of oil they cook chips in where you come from, but what goes in my tank is a lovely light coloured golden liquid, filtered to 1 micron, which is more refined than what comes out of the pump on your local forecourt. ::)
Are you seriously trying to argue that cooking oil is less viscous than diesel? ::) And as I said, real diesel doesn't sustain bacterial growth in the tank/lines/filter.
Nope, but stating that your assertion that it has the viscosity of toffee is plain wrong. The action of filtering it to 1 micron means it may well contain less contaminants than pump diesel. The viscosity only becomes an issue in really cold weather, when mixing a small percentage of petrol in cures it. A mechanical Bosch diesel pump wont struggle to pump vegoil at all, so thats not a problem either. No particular risk of bacterial growth in the fuel system as the oil doesn't sit still or stay in there long enough to sustain it.
If it was a cause for concern, a small percentage of petrol or larger percentage of diesel mixed in would likely prevent it.
Its not something that I have encountered in tens of thousands of miles of WVO usage.
As you say though. Not really worth the bother if you only intend driving it a couple of thousand miles before getting shot of it.
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Dunno what kind of oil they cook chips in where you come from, but what goes in my tank is a lovely light coloured golden liquid, filtered to 1 micron, which is more refined than what comes out of the pump on your local forecourt. ::)
Are you seriously trying to argue that cooking oil is less viscous than diesel? ::) And as I said, real diesel doesn't sustain bacterial growth in the tank/lines/filter.
Nope, but stating that your assertion that it has the viscosity of toffee is plain wrong. The action of filtering it to 1 micron means it may well contain less contaminants than pump diesel. The viscosity only becomes an issue in really cold weather, when mixing a small percentage of petrol in cures it. A mechanical Bosch diesel pump wont struggle to pump vegoil at all, so thats not a problem either. No particular risk of bacterial growth in the fuel system as the oil doesn't sit still or stay in there long enough to sustain it.
If it was a cause for concern, a small percentage of petrol or larger percentage of diesel mixed in would likely prevent it.
Its not something that I have encountered in tens of thousands of miles of WVO usage.
As you say though. Not really worth the bother if you only intend driving it a couple of thousand miles before getting shot of it.
Ain't SVO then is it. :D It's faff brew :P
Personally I value my time at higher than £0 so filtering veg oil to 1mic is not a viable option. But each to his own.
I'm sure you could survive a great many years eating just crisps... doesn't mean you should.
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...but...but... everyone prefers the smell of chips to normal diesel...
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My filtering is done at work, so I'm actually getting paid to do it. Plus the smug satisfaction of knowing I'm not handing the treasury a big wedge of my hard earned each time I fil up, is a wonderful feeling. ;D