Fuel Prices

[Vendition Ltd]

Fuel prices are literally killing me at the moment!

Went to install a site today which cost me over £10 in fuel (there and back) only be told that the machine would not go with the 16th century theme of the pub!!!

Do you think it would be better if the site were shown a picture of the machine before the telesales tell us to go there and install the machine?

Finally I have thought about converting my van to run from cooking fat. Does anyone know much aout this? I think it will cost me £2000 to convert but then I will effectively be travelling for free so will make that back pretty soon. I drive 400 miles per week

Kind regards

Ross

[Vendingwarehouse]

You still have to buy the cooking fat as it needs refining and filtering first.

[BigVend]

Even if they saw a machine in advance you'll still get rejections, that's life unfortunately.

As for fuel, do you mean convert a petrol car to lpg, as that costs £1k+ but drops fuel costs in half?

If you have a diesel you can run on chip-fat, heating oil and many other things without conversion in older cars, but they all require additives/filtering and technically legally you are still required to pay fuel duty to HMRC. I doubt many people do, but be aware its still illegal. Also the more modern diesels will not run on these fuels as they are very sensitive to the nature of the fuel (heating oil is kerosene which is a different grade of fuel to diesel and has a different viscosity).

[Vendition Ltd]

I didn't realise this Guy, I will look into it a litle more, I have a 01 Ford transit van will that be old enough to run on chip fat?

Regards

Ross

[BigVend]

Few people do this, so no real facts, just some 'opinions and experiences' :

http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74383" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FlintVending]

I didn't realise this Guy, I will look into it a litle more, I have a 01 Ford transit van will that be old enough to run on chip fat?

Regards

Ross

Find out if its a high pressure injection system, if it is dont let a drop of cooking oil near it!
I found this out to my cost when I had to spend £900 on a new fuel pump for my Citreon Dispatch.

[FlintVending]

I have just downsized from a 1.9 turbo Diesel to a vauxhall Combo 1.3 turbo Diesel.
Had a false floor put in the vauxhall to compansate for the loss of loading area.
The Combo does nearly 60mpg and saves me at least £30 a week over the 1.9 Van.

You need to downsize now, you dont need a transit for this Business, its a nice size van BUT conditions are such now that you will be losing money if you arent carfeul
All sorts of nasty rumours about Diesel going to £1.50 litre +++ this summer, I know what i would lay my money on with all this unrest in the middle east and goverment taxation earnings being well down due to unemployment!
Fuel tax raises heaps for the Goverment and it aint coming down!

[BigVend]

I have just downsized from a 1.9 turbo Diesel to a vauxhall Combo 1.3 turbo Diesel.

Exactly what I'm looking at doing, going down from a Mercedes Vito to a Combi or a Partner/Berlingo.

It's nice to have a big van for occasions, but it's pretty empty most of the time.

[FlintVending]

I have just downsized from a 1.9 turbo Diesel to a vauxhall Combo 1.3 turbo Diesel.

Exactly what I'm looking at doing, going down from a Mercedes Vito to a Combi or a Partner/Berlingo.

It's nice to have a big van for occasions, but it's pretty empty most of the time.

Guy get a false floor put in, some ex BT vans already have them.
Machines at bottom, stock on top!
works a treat

[BigVend]

Guy get a false floor put in, some ex BT vans already have them.
Machines at bottom, stock on top!
works a treat

Show us a photo!