A 5 year old diesel. 5 years old, so it's off warranty, and cheap enough that I feel like I can gamble. Then I'd get the conversion kit to let it run on vegetable oil.
It doesn't mean you put vegetable oil in the main tank; you need regular diesel in the main tank, because until the engine is hot enough, vegetable oil won't work. But, you have a secondary tank, and a button to start using it, once the engine heats up.
Restaurants have to pay to have cooking oil hauled away. They'll give you oil for free. You run it through a large coffee filter, and pour it into your secondary tank, and voila, you have a frenchfrymobile!
However, the conversion voids the warranty, and unless you have a good mechanic, things could go wrong, and if you're like me, you might keep forgetting to check with the restaurants until they've already thrown their oil away, etc.. Still, right now, it's my dream car, and diesel is more efficient than gas, so it has good mileage, used McD grease or diesel.
So, none of this means anything to you, but it still gives me a chance to talk about one of my ittybitty dreams.
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A 5 year old diesel. 5 years old, so it's off warranty, and cheap enough that I feel like I can gamble. Then I'd get the conversion kit to let it run on vegetable oil.
It doesn't mean you put vegetable oil in the main tank; you need regular diesel in the main tank, because until the engine is hot enough, vegetable oil won't work. But, you have a secondary tank, and a button to start using it, once the engine heats up.
Restaurants have to pay to have cooking oil hauled away. They'll give you oil for free. You run it through a large coffee filter, and pour it into your secondary tank, and voila, you have a frenchfrymobile!
However, the conversion voids the warranty, and unless you have a good mechanic, things could go wrong, and if you're like me, you might keep forgetting to check with the restaurants until they've already thrown their oil away, etc.. Still, right now, it's my dream car, and diesel is more efficient than gas, so it has good mileage, used McD grease or diesel.
So, none of this means anything to you, but it still gives me a chance to talk about one of my ittybitty dreams.