Biodiesel and your new TDI.

[Transporter]

Some people on this forum think that I'm "antibiodiesel" well I'm not more antibiodiesel than the article in the link below.

"Before you fill up your new TDI fuel tank with biodiesel".

http://www.dieselpowermag.com/tech/g...nty/index.html

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=U&st...ZF1lYM3MnrfM-Q

[CatonaPC©]

I believe the manual gives just such a warning but also permits the use of biodiesel which meets the appropriate fuel standard. (In short, B5.)

Provided we are not duped by the oil companies, we shouldn't have a problem in this country.

[STV4SYT]

but now with diesel sitting at under $1.40 a litre and dropping more each day its becoming less of a saving. the risks far outweigh the gains IMO.

[Greg Roles]

Well the day my warranty runs out, I hope to never use Dino again.
Sure you need to know what you are doing, but a properly set up car and biodiesel plant is definately my future. Dutchaussie is writing a book of his european experience, and I'm on the "want to purchase list". It's WHY I'm planning on hanging onto this car long term, and I can't think of a greater joy than to be able to drive past servo's and stick it to the man fuel wise.

Shame they will still get the oil use!

[85Fuego]

Well the day my warranty runs out, I hope to never use Dino again.

Thats what i had hoped to do - there's a servo on Middleborough Rd not far from Burwood highway here in Melb., that sells biodiesel. Put through a few tanks - by the time the second tank was 3/4 of the way empty it was getting hard to start. (this was after topping up occasionally with BD and changing the filter). Went back to dino after 1 tank was back to easy starting.

There is obviously a quality problem, my hunch is that unless you have BD that is up to a standard the quality may be suspect ie use no more than 5%. The problem is where was the base stock from? Oils, tallow? Was it washed properly?

Unless u do it yourself, without testing you don't know what you have.

Regards

David

[hokenmk3]

Making biodiesel is really easy:
-Filter fryer oil with a calico bag
-Dissolve napthaline (crushed moth balls) into it
-Filter again
-QED

[phaeton]

One of the forum members here powers his vehicle with Biodiesel and I think he makes it to.

No problems...........so far to my knowledge.

[Transporter]

One of the forum members here powers his vehicle with Biodiesel and I think he makes it to.

No problems...........so far to my knowledge.

I need a bit more prove than one member here and there to experimenting with his car before I would use biodiesel.

Something like driving 200,000km using the biodiesel only and under different driving conditions in different climates on more than just one car, than

after that 200,000km dismantle the engine and check the wear on the components and compare to the one driven on the petroleum diesel.

20 engines in the testing like that could give some reasonably accurate data.

But the problem is that the quality of the diesel fuel is not guaranteed, so even such test wouldn’t be accurate.

P.S. Buying biodiesel instead petro diesel when there is not saving (actualy the engine is using more of it) is non sence.
Any car fitted with DPF cannot use biodiesel anyway.

[neil]

Making biodiesel is really easy:
-Filter fryer oil with a calico bag
-Dissolve napthaline (crushed moth balls) into it
-Filter again
-QED

Dutch aussie and a few others make there own with no complication.

I would be interested to know there thoughts on your Bio recipe as I think its a
bit more complicated than that to make.

Have you actually tried this recipe.

[hokenmk3]

Dutch aussie and a few others make there own with no complication.

I would be interested to know there thoughts on your Bio recipe as I think its a
bit more complicated than that to make.

Have you actually tried this recipe.

Yeah but only in a 4.2L Nissan Patrol so there is no hurting that thing. It runs on just the oil with no moth balls so it is not really any indication... although without the moth balls chewed the fuel filter and with the mothballs seemed not to.