Sheds-r-us
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Posted 26 July 2007 - 08:29 AM
The shed is going on a 1500 mile round trip next week end
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Posted 26 July 2007 - 12:03 PM
ding the tyres comments - got a mixed bag of tyres on the rover but they are all branded and i good nick
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Posted 26 July 2007 - 12:45 PM
James, do some work.
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Posted 26 July 2007 - 03:40 PM
about to leave to go to poxall.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 09:10 AM
pig got some new shoes today! 
didn't get remoulds got new - 120 quid all in for 4 not too bad 
didn't get remoulds got new - 120 quid all in for 4 not too bad
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 09:29 AM
thinking maybe i should take the vx to scottland. can't take the bikes then though, or anything else for that matter.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 09:40 AM
So you guys that are running your sheds on cooking oil. Could you use used cooking oil from resteraunts and pubs? I've got a friend who used to work in a pub and he has been talking to one of the chefs who runs his van on the used oil, and says he has far too much to use, and they have to pay for the rest of it to be taken away. So he has said to my friend who is thinking of buying a Mk3 Golf diesel that if he wants some then to just come and get as much as he wants.
Which leads me to another question I was going to ask you diesel gurus, is a Mk3 Golf suitable for running on cooking oil?
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 10:33 AM
So you guys that are running your sheds on cooking oil. Could you use used cooking oil from resteraunts and pubs? I've got a friend who used to work in a pub and he has been talking to one of the chefs who runs his van on the used oil, and says he has far too much to use, and they have to pay for the rest of it to be taken away. So he has said to my friend who is thinking of buying a Mk3 Golf diesel that if he wants some then to just come and get as much as he wants.
Which leads me to another question I was going to ask you diesel gurus, is a Mk3 Golf suitable for running on cooking oil?
WVO (waste veg Oil) is a royal pain in the backside. If he is giving it to you, filtered, de-watered etc then thats a great deal. But if you have to do it, it just isn't worth it. That said, if you do all the right things and there is a load of information about it on the web, then it will probably work.
MK3 at a guess will have a Bosch pump (although do check, because i can recall a polo going wrong recently because it didn't have a Bosch pump
) so it will be fine. Best bet is something cheap so that when it does break you don't care.
I'm still debating which car to take to scottland, and how much veg to take if we go in the corsa
(cheapstake me? )(P.S seriously: if the corsa is going then it will go with a tank of veg and change to Dino there after, no chance that i'm actually going to carry extra veg in the boot)
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:06 PM
(P.S seriously: if the corsa is going then it will go with a tank of veg and change to Dino there after, no chance that i'm actually going to carry extra veg in the boot)
if only i could believe you James
in all seriousness Rob, if you are drying and filtering the wvo it will take at least 3 weeks for the fat/ oil/ water separation to take place at ambient temperature. and then you have to filter it. i'm going to do this as soon as i have the space
.if you don't let it separate properly you will become a victim of 'larding' of your fuel filter. this is a royal pita
re: mk3 golfs, see James' points above about the filter and also i'm not sure at which point the golf tdi designation became used for common rails. if you look back through Cheeky Chops posted a very useful link to an american site. BE VERY CAREFUL!!!!
Edited by AntB, 27 July 2007 - 12:17 PM.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:26 PM
Thanks for the info guys. I didn't have a clue about drying the oil, I obviously thought the filtering was necassary. The chef told my friend that he just puts it straight into his van even without filtering although I suspect this might be a "my mate down the pub story"
I am starting to seriously consider selling the Polo and getting a diesel Merc 190 and doing the whole cooking oil thing a different friends dad is currently driving a 190 2.0 petrol auto and it is amazingly comfortable and well screwed together. Its only done 80,000 miles with full Merc history and it is literally faultless. They took it in on part ex and gave the guy £800 so his dads just driving round in it until he gets a new car, but I think he has kind of fallen in love with it
although I suspect this might be a "my mate down the pub story"
I am starting to seriously consider selling the Polo and getting a diesel Merc 190 and doing the whole cooking oil thing a different friends dad is currently driving a 190 2.0 petrol auto and it is amazingly comfortable and well screwed together. Its only done 80,000 miles with full Merc history and it is literally faultless. They took it in on part ex and gave the guy £800 so his dads just driving round in it until he gets a new car, but I think he has kind of fallen in love with it
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:34 PM
iicr there was supposed to be a fifth gear (or somesuch) programme a while back with the people doing a roadtrip somewhere supposedly on unfiltered wvo. oddly enough it never transpired, doubtless they realised they were twunts
i still get 'pub talk' facts offered to me. royal pita 
merc diesel will be a very good idea
i still get 'pub talk' facts offered to me. royal pita
merc diesel will be a very good idea
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:39 PM
I'm tempted by the merc 190D 2.5 diesel, I got an insurance quote and it was only about £250 pa tpft, which is really tempting. But it would be alot cheaper to run a corsa 1.5td, I'll just have to see whats about when I fix/clean up and sell my Punto.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 08:46 PM
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Posted 29 July 2007 - 08:26 AM
made it to the island of mull in the wee corsa. 
trouble free, back on dino diesel but left with full tank of veg. 612miles on 50 quid.
trouble free, back on dino diesel but left with full tank of veg. 612miles on 50 quid.
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Posted 30 July 2007 - 06:35 PM
corsa will need £300 of welding for it's MoT, it's going to get done and undersealed with waxoyl added to the box sections before the weather gets bad 
in the style of a cheap old bastard who spent (read wasted) his youth on rubbish old cars i'm tempted to abandon the waxoyl idea and just fill the box sections with old engine oil..... 
at that price it's seriously teetering on the brink of getting scrapped. if i hadn't changed the cambelt (at a cost of £17) only 4k miles ago it'd be a goner
plus i'm a bit 
and i like the colour, white ones seem hard to come by, obviously no-one was stupid enough to by that colour back in the day
in other news i taxed the vx today. it's very odd, spending £200 on the vx isn't an issue, even thinking about any outlay on the shed brings me out in a rash
in the style of a cheap old bastard who spent (read wasted) his youth on rubbish old cars i'm tempted to abandon the waxoyl idea and just fill the box sections with old engine oil.....
at that price it's seriously teetering on the brink of getting scrapped. if i hadn't changed the cambelt (at a cost of £17) only 4k miles ago it'd be a goner
plus i'm a bit and i like the colour, white ones seem hard to come by, obviously no-one was stupid enough to by that colour back in the day
in other news i taxed the vx today. it's very odd, spending £200 on the vx isn't an issue, even thinking about any outlay on the shed brings me out in a rash
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 06:56 PM
i'll have to keep bumping this thread to the top with random, tedious factlets or JG will have to go searching for it when he returns from the land of haggis and men in skirts...
shed let me down for the first time today, got in it (after unlocking it and suspiciously not hearing the click- whirr of the central locking) and found the battery to be totally fcuked. a £30 battery charger and £3 of ionised water later and it's as right as rain (touch the proverbial wood).
saved me £80 on a new weasel battery
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 07:03 PM
my rev counter is playing up, sticks then fixes itself, i think its the new belts slipping (the old belts slipping caused the rev counter not to function i guess they are related ?)- i thought i'd got the new belts tight, but it was difficult to do (still couldnt work it out) , might strip it all down and grease stuff up.
heh i'd keep bumping the thread but i've been busy with the other one
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Posted 04 August 2007 - 07:14 PM
i have lights to the speedo like that a bit of 'percussive maintenance' (a couple of hard slaps) and it rights itself
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Posted 05 August 2007 - 07:05 AM
Got back yesterday.
1550 miles in the corsa, totally trouble free.
Edited by JamesGray, 05 August 2007 - 07:34 AM.
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