Yea, saw that too! Nope thats pretty much all you need to do! You wouldnt even need to bother with the heater if you were running it on say 25% Chip fat and 75% diesel.
Running a 1.9 JTD on 50/50 veg oil diesel mix
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Running a 1.9 JTD on 50/50 veg oil diesel mix
wonder how long itll be until garages start selling it for more than diesel because it's 'greener' bet people buy it too
tesco charge 1p more for a 5% biodiesel mix already
Slightly different topic but I asked at a filling station that stocks bio-diesel last year and for my Panda MJT, only 5% was recommended, in fact the assistant in the shop said they wouldn't sell the 50/50 mix to me as it wasn't suitable for common rail engines. However, she said they would quite happily sell the 50/50 to taxis as the older engines could run quite happily on it.
If it's made to standard EN14214 you should be safe on 50/50 at least (check my links). Unless the car's under warranty, which brings us back to the 5% issue. Rolling road booked for Saturday then I'm off to fill up again 
The first ever diesel engine was designed to run on rape seed oil. (which is why old mercedes cars will run off chip fat from a fryer as it comes) And Bio diesel cleans the engine out and acts like a libricant. It also gives better MPG and if made right will look after your engine.
So your facts are totally wrong!.
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It's advisble to filter the chips first
.And a modern diesel engine used in new fiat's is a completely different machine to those dirty old "pumpe duse" like engines
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