Others considered... was: How The Dealer treats us... was: Startof a silly season

[Fred Munro]

Yeah, they call these "grease cars". There's a local guy running a mid '90s
Jetta TDI on this stuff. I was behind him in traffic one day - his exhaust
kind of smelled like french fries. Yum. You can't run the post-2004 Pumpe
Duse diesels on this stuff - it's relegated to the earlier TDI's. Any
foreign particles cause significant wear in the PD injectors, and, well, you
really don't want to replace PD injectors - think second mortgage...

Fred Munro
'97 S6
'05 Passat TDI

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of LL - NY
Sent: December 2, 2008 7:42 PM
To: Taka Mizutani
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Others considered... was: How The Dealer treats us... was:
Startof a silly season


There's a fairly inexpensive adaptation to burn filtered vegestable oil in
Diesel cars. You must start and finish the run on either real or biodiesel
(or the veggie oil may coagulate in the injectors, THEN you're screwed) and
the vegastable oil tank must be heated (part of the conversion kit). I first
heard of it from Randy Pobst in Sports Car, and then looked into it. There's
even a book about a cross country journey taken in a converted M-B 300TD
where they described all of the advantanges and difficulties of running
cross country without touching a single service station. In the North-East,
they said it's easy, resturants are looking to get rid of old oil (because
they charge for disposal). In the Mid-West, they said the resturant owners
looked at them like they had 2 heads. Each.



On 12/2/08, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You would take a brand-new, under warranty car and do what to it?!?
>
> Taka
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:45 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If new, way too rich for my blood. Used, mebee. If the Legacy TD comes
>> out, there's a possibility as a commuter. I'd turn it to a veggie-mobile
as
>> I have easy access to used, clean cooking oil....
>>
>> LL - NY
>>
>>
>> On 12/2/08, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Out of the current AWD cars out there:
>>>
>>> BMW 535xi Touring 6-speed manual gearbox
>>> MBZ ML320 Bluetec
>>> Audi A4 2.0T Avant B8 chassis but only when DSG is released (no manuals
>>> for US)
>>>
>>> used B7 Audi RS4 (droool)
>>>
>>> Taka
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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