Is it really possible to use cooking oil rather than petrol/diesel?

Question

for your car

Answer 1

i dont get it...where does all this veg oil gona come from...hate to tell people that the french fry oil is already recycled ....are you going to grow it??  95 % of land that can be farmed is farmed...

Answer 2

Yep.....Chip fat from a fryer can be used in your diesel car.

Answer 3

Diesel yes, petrol (gasoline) no.

Cooking oil can be converted into bio-diesel and used in any diesel that can use low sulfur diesel, basically any sold in the UK and any diesels sold in the US after 2007. Some US diesels need sulfur to lubricate some parts, and after those parts are replaced you can use bio-diesel.

It isn't that hard to separate the solids out of cooking oil, you can make a separator for a $100 US or less, then process it into bio-diesel.

Answer 4

Not really. It makes the chips taste funny.

Answer 5

Bio-diesel is the same as petroleum except it has aged many years and it all came from the plants.

Answer 6

This was my answer from another question;

Here in Wales UK "Sundance" makes biodiesal out of the local chip shops waste oil. Only problem is it is not good for my car as it doesn't like fuel injection systems and I had to put "RedX" in to make it start again. But I did try and that is the key, isn't it?

Answer 7

yes it is possible to run your diesel car on cooking oil, but not neat it has to be used oil, with certain inpurities taken out, however if you do want to run it on neat this will eventually cause blockages, there is a company that sells a machine that takes the inpurities out but it costs like £2000 this machine gives you enough oil for the average car to run for a week, there are companies around england that are begining to realise ppl use oil and are putting in stops for the cooking oil user lol

Answer 8

oh yes! if your a beginner start with a 10% mix of oil/diesel and see how it goes. use only pure stuff like straight out of the supermarket. if your confident enough you can process your own used stuff. bigger the engine your car has the better.

Answer 9

Rather than diesel, yes (with a couple of minor modifications).  This is a form of biodiesel, but cannot be used in a petrol engine.

Answer 10

Yes ,it solidifies a little during cold weather and the exhaust fumes smell of..you guessed it..cooking oil.

I suggest never using more than a quarter cooking oil to three quarters diesel.

It is probably better if you dont run too low on fuel either.The cooking oil tends to float on the diesel.The fuel pick up extracts from the bottom of the tank.So when its low you will get pure cooking oil rather than a more even mix.

Used cooking oil is every bit as good as new and costs nothing.New cooking oil has recently doubled in price and is hardly worth the effort.

Thieving Brown still wants his fuel tax from you to give away to immigrants.Thats up to you whether or not you volunteer it.

Answer 11

It is possible to adapt it for DIESEL cars, but not gasoline (called petrol in England) cars. But straight vegetable oil is not the same as bio diesel. Bio diesel CAN be used in unmodified diesel cars though, and it can be made from straight vegetable oil.

Answer 12

Only for diesel vehicles.