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

[Taka Mizutani]

Yeah and again, you'd take a brand-new $30k car and do this to it,
especially while you could still have a warranty?!?!

Taka


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:41 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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