Hi,

I'm getting a new or nearly new car (buy or lease) and is wondering which one would be the best as far as biodiesel or SVO goes. I am happy to change filters and make/blend the fuel myself. Just want to know which car/engine I should be going for that will be the least hassle. I've heard of Fiat owners using BD so thought I'd ask you all. Thinking of getting a brava 150BHP sport or similar.

Thanks.

As far as I'm aware a modern common rail diesel engine won't run on much else other than diesel.

i have a shower every day and i cut my hair once a month so i'm definately not a hippy, but even i think its wrong to use biodiesel, why dont you just set fire to a local forest instead? then you get to see the animals burning. it would be a shame for a south american farmer to get all the pleasure.

the 1.9JTD can be run on svo, i believe you can run on 75% svo without any modifications. for 100% you need a heater, although i personally believe in summer you could run on 100% if you used a light oil such as rapeseed.

there are many previous threads about this, especially in the marea section, have a search.

for example https://www.fiatforum.com/marea-technical/110945-jtd-glee-fastest-veg-oil-car.html

A 50/50 mix of diesel and biodiesel should be fine in any modern diesel. Can use a higher mix of biodiesel (80/20 maybe) during the summer.

So is it true you can get in trouble if you get pulled, and a fuel check reveals un-taxed homemade fuel?

jug said:

i have a shower every day and i cut my hair once a month so i'm definately not a hippy, but even i think its wrong to use biodiesel, why dont you just set fire to a local forest instead? then you get to see the animals burning. it would be a shame for a south american farmer to get all the pleasure.

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I'll be making my own from WVO if that matters. Appreciate the sarcasm though.

jug said:

the 1.9JTD can be run on svo, i believe you can run on 75% svo without any modifications. for 100% you need a heater, although i personally believe in summer you could run on 100% if you used a light oil such as rapeseed.

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Ok cool, I'll check out which new cars have this engine.

jug said:

there are many previous threads about this, especially in the marea section, have a search.

for exampl ...

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I have seen the marea threads but I don't want a marea, and haven't seen any other definitive lists/guides regarding 2007/2008 cars.

Thanks for the info, appreciated.

matthew.raine said:

So is it true you can get in trouble if you get pulled, and a fuel check reveals un-taxed homemade fuel?

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Nope, law was changed, you can produce 2500L per year yourself. This equates to around 20k miles on average I believe.

Ahhh cool ok. I guess it would be contradictory for the government to encourage green-ness then b*llock people for using their own bio fuels!