Love how you guys first did a lot of research on where to best mount the cameras in the taxi. There sure are a lot of helpfull videos out there that have the same setup as yours. Good job 👏🏼
They're so knowledgeable about the features they found in this one missing from the taxis they have recently seen and how drivers interact with passengers. Sounds like they had done a lot of very specialist taxi research.
A few years back I ran an old Polo SDI on a 50:50 mix of diesel : veg oil. It wasn't great on straight diesel, so best to mix it. And regular fuel filter changes required. Bought the oil in bulk from the likes of Costco or like local Asian food places often did decently priced bulk, 20L drums. I think at one point I was £15 for a 20L drum, so 75p per litre. It was roughly a 45L tank in that car, so 20L of veg oil, then top up with 20L diesel. So £51 to fill the motor with 40L of the mix (assuming £15 drum and £1.80 per litre for diesel). Used to get around 400 miles per tank so that's around 12p per mile (or £6.37 for your 50 mile journey). Cheap motoring that. I was commuting around 100 miles a day at that point, so it was worth it for me. I used an old 2L "pop" bottle as my funnel. Cut off half of the "bottom" of the bottle and used it as the funnel. Was tricky starting off the 20L drum, but wasn't too messy.
Done the exact same with a fabia sdi a caddy sdi and countless old peugeots its mega cheap and you can gwt away with a slightly thicker mix in the summer
@@juchetony1910 Years ago I also had a Range Rover P38. It was the 4.6L V8, with an LPG tank. I averaged 13.5 mpg with that thing. I loved it. But back then, I remember paying over £200 to fill both tanks one day.
If you guys moded this by removing weight, you could have an eco-friendly track day car. If you made it into a public event with "Chippies", you could use the waste oil from their operations selling "chips" to your spectators/fans/subscribers, and then race for free. Possibly even profit. I really like where this is going.
I would go full batshit crazy on this one. Like full plush interior with fake long fur (or shag carpet) roof in some weird colour (neon blue or bright orange or something like that) and a smoke machine in the back, padded PU leather exterior, probably with zebra stripes or something equally weird (and of course couch buttons), full tinted windows in the front (red or yellow), and there's so much useable space in the front, I'd add a fridge and/or a backing oven. I'd turn it into a total eyecatcher for all the wrong reasons.
For my American friends who are wondering how the price of fuel translates from pounds/l to dollars/gal, the price shown at 0:15 works out to $8.83 per gallon. You, my UK friends, have the absolute short end of the stick when it comes to fuel prices and I'll never complain about what I pay at the pump ever again.
It's not too bad when you realise we tend to drive smaller more economical cars and our average journey distance is shorter. (Since our country is allot smaller) the longest travel distance in the UK is 1,000 miles by road (Land's End to John o' Groats, Englands most southern point to Scotland's most northern point). My Toyota Aygo averages 70mpg (although I can imagine doing this it would be more 80mpg) and costs 10p a mile at the current fuel prices meaning I could drive 1,000 miles for £100. My brother's wife does have a 2L petrol ford Mondeo though and it recently cost her £20 to travel 40ish miles. She's a bit of a mad driver though so I would be surprised if she's getting 20mpg (16mpg US). I think the closest car available in the US to average car what we drive is something like the Mitsubishi mirage.
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe Actually the grade of fuel is very similar. UK and US just use different units for measuring octane. After conversion the octane level is pretty much the same.
Alex said TX4 and my immediate thought was "Those are common rail and they get terrible fuel mileage" but they made it worse by buying a ticking timebomb transit engined TX2 lol
@@atherrien95 It's probably the most efficient in terms of MPG, and is generally the smoothest running as well. But it being common rail is bad in this context because it means the injectors are finer and are more susceptible to being clogged up, so you can't use cooking oil mixed into your fuel. My dad actually drives a TX4 with the 2.5 VM Motori Chrysler common rail engine, the injectors are so fine that you can't actually see or feel the holes in the injectors with your bare eyes and hands. It's also very 'thirsty'. Goes through diesel like it's nothing, since it's heavy and has basically no torque. I've been thinking about undertaking a project with my dad wherein we swap a 1.9 TDI PD VW motor into his TX4 since those have boat loads more torque and are likely more economical. Unfortunately it would have to stay auto, although a tiptronic would be nice.
@@Darkest_matter What do you mean by that? I didn't write anything clever intentionally lol. Unless you're talking about how the last line has 3 words in a row that start with T?
@@jackroutledge352 I suspect it's not mentioned as oil producers don't want you to use anything but diesel in your car. But that's an assumption, it also helps in diesel as they have reduced the amount of sulphur in diesel.
Honestly the taxi comments made this video. I have actual tears of laughter. For me this is hands down the best and funniest video you’ve ever done. Absolute gold 😂😂😂
It depends on the Engine and LPG generation. Old carburator engines with 1st gen LPG consume 30% more LPG than petrol and with LPG price in UK more than half petrol price it was not very economical. I had BMW e34 520 6cyl injecto on 1st or 2nd gen LPG (the kit wich has no injectors in inlet manifold for LPG, it had rounded disk wit many LPG jets and on motorway my consumption was 10.5l of petrol or 12.5l LPG / 100km ... so you can convert it to MpG or just check prices and compare costs). Find low mileage 4cyl 16v car with LPG tank in spare wheel space and you will save aprox. half of your money on fuel... (Read reviews about diffrent cars on LPG some engines work well some have backfires and engine check light all the time on)
That’s a cool episode. I was always curious about those. I’d like to see you guys improve it. Not by scrapping or painting black and putting yellow sticker, but fixing breaks and steering. Headlamps looks dimmed too. If not rusted bolts Ethan should be able to do some work on simple technology. Good detail can turn it around.
Great job, mates! You've set your minds on getting it cheap, worked the elbow grease, plowed thru the pile-on of shady bangers, and it seems like your efforts been paid off with a load of spare liquid! Well done, you surely know, how to beat the pump. Some fancy cafe at the end, btw, they even got the lasershow for customers! I kept seeing red beams, waving all over your heads, the entire conclusion time..
Here's a tip for waste oil. Get 10inch water filters. Three in a row and use the cheap paper filter. 0.5 Micron final step. The finer the better. 0.2 clogged too quickly but 0.5 was good. The filter housing uses standard fittings and get a pump to pump the good stuff. Works like a charm
A colleague of mine has a 1982 Mercedes (w124) 300d estate with a professional twin tank conversion. He starts the car on diesel, once warm, he flicks a switch and swaps to veg oil. He buys it in bulk and pays about 80p a litre. The car runs sweet as a nut
You should’ve bought a saab, they are super cheap and have a large top gear, they can do over 30+ mpg US, and they come with Diesel engines that can do even better
@@kennorcott7074 I bought a 2.2 mondeo for £900 (with all fancy bits too, exhaust, alloys etc which can be sold to recuperate some cost I guess) which averages 49 mpg. Heated seats, aircon, heated front screen, auto lights, auto wipers etc. A fair bit of car for the price.
All across Europe the prices of old diesels which can run on oil and old petrol engines that can be easily converted to LPG, have basically quadrupled over night. Early to mid 90s cars now go easily for €2000+, where 6 months ago people were wondering how to get rid of them. IT's just insane.
I used to drive a Silver TX1 SE for Saint Dunstans Charity for the war blind now called Blind Veterans UK. It had the Nissan 2.7 litre fuel injection diesel engine. It's a 8 gallon tank and I used to get 15mpg on a good day or 9 mpg in the city. Back seats fold,and there's a ramp in the back for wheelchair users. The back doors open a full 90° max speed 97 mph. You can take the divider out and fit a seat in the front, Best change the tyres for a better ride.
People who are keen to sell quickly combined with poorly looked after cars in need of servicing and new parts. But also non performance cars that are expensive to tax and poor on fuel, they are not desirable anymore, meaning people will only buy them if they are cheap to the point where it's a bargain for someone.
Man I missed those vids, keep em coming. A fun fact to know is that the original diesel engine was designed to ryn on veg oil and technically diesel engines can still run on veg oil, that is cheap and it also acts as a lubricant. Altough it has advantages it shouldnt be used for an extented period of time because after a while microorganisms are going to start being created and and then there is something like mud that is being formed from them that can block the pump, or the becks. Another fact is that the diesel that everyone is using right now contains 2% ,or maybe a bit more, biodiesel which is produced from fried ( or used in any way veg oil) and the goal is for that percentage to keep increasing in the coming years
Oi tell you something I absolutely love you lads, sound geezers just pissing around having fun with 4 wheels. You don't take yourselves too serious either, keep it that way! Doing a great job boys 👍
If you start to use veg oil in a vehicle that has always used diesel change the fuel filter after the first tank full has gone through. This is because veg oil is thicker than diesel and picks up any crap in the tank. If there's a lot of crap at the first filter change you may need to change the filter again after another couple of tank fulls. You can thin veg oil out by using methylated spirit (but you must pay fuel duty and VAT on the meths) if you get any running issues due to thick veg oil
Had an old 1999 S-reg Shitron berlingo (DW8 1.9 engine) that I ran on 100% used restaurant cooking oil for about 5 years. Didn't even need a 5 micron filter either, just ran it through a boggo standard coffee filter and put it straight in the tank. I think I did approximately 60,000 miles on used oil before I sold it to another veg burner about 5 years ago and I still sometimes see it on the road now.
I used to work for lti as a technician and we had loads of problems with the Ford engine especially timing chains, cams pulling out the heads, fuel pump solenoids, fead belts being noisy due to tensioner failure but when running properly they drove really well.
That's exactly the reason why veg oil is the price it is today ~£1 per litre, because the last time there was a spike in fuel price everyone realised they could use veg, then the government realised they could tax it more aswell win win for them
@@Chill2221 The government didn’t tax it more. The supermarkets and suppliers just had to charge more as demand went up. It’s been going on for 20 odd years. Happens less effectively now as most people don’t want to drive a vehicle old enough to do it. Also the saving isn’t that great unless you have a very thirsty car or do mega miles.
You can also use old engine oil from any oil changes/ or and mix with oil. btw did you not think the motor started to stink like a graesy spoon? I used to run a old pd 100 seat Ibiza 1998 plate on these, just had to do a more regular fuel filter change.
4:30 yes they do. You can clearly hear it. Yes they run on everything. Even ran old engine oil at 100% in my Mondeo with that engine and it worked fine and started just like on Diesel
Used to run my old Citroen ZX diesel on veggie oil - every third fill was diesel, but I really was saving money. Course, what you've not mentioned is how your car then smells like a chip shop, for those who are in traffic behind you 😊
@@MultiVogon i found anything over 90ish% and it was down on power and mpg was lower also. old trick was to brim the tank with veg oil and add 1 litre of petrol to thin it out a bit just reminded me of a time i ran out of fuel and mother in law came to the rescue with a bottle of filippo bereo olive oil lol
I think you guys should keep running the taxi on veg oil and see how that holds up for the long run. Ofc saving money on veg oil rather diesel would efficiently work for the long run if there aren't much repairing to do for the engine later lol.
Heres how to beat it. Get a van cut a hole in the floor. take the plates off and any distinguishing features. Go when the servo is shut and park over the dipstick vents. open the hole in the floor, open the vent and put a hole down into the tank. use a suction pump manual not electric and pump all the fuel you need into a 1000l ibc in the back of the van. then drive off. make sure to cover your face and afterwards enjoy the fuel.
Easily get it done get to the old chippy and boom your in business I'm thinking of brewing some and selling it for half price I used to do 8 litres of veg with 2 litres of pure diesel
I don’t know if it’s worth it to go through the whole rigamarole of converting veg oil to proper biodiesel. I think it’s a bit difficult and messy, you need to buy chemicals to do it, and you can’t really store it for long so you gotta convert it sort of fortnightly or monthly? I reckon if you get free used oil just concentrate on filtering it really well and mixing it with diesel (more diesel in the winter). Or spend the money on a system where you start and finish the vehicle on straight diesel, but convert to veg oil when the engine is nice and hot.
Don’t use supermarket oil. It’s got additives in it for cooking that isn’t good for engines. To be honest it’s probably not going to be worth the hassle.
those small engine cars are not as efficient on fuel as people think the problem is your constantly ragging it just to keep up gotta red line it every where lol.
I’m actually thankful I just got what I did. 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring, because Canada. Going from a Jeep Grand Cherokee with the L6 to a 5 speed 4 banger was huge. $20 can get me 3 days of driving to and from work instead of just one day in the Jeep.
Old peugeot diesels are brilliant, there was an old 309 1.8 that had 750,000 miles on it (taxi car). Only major things that went wrong were the clutch and the head gasket.
I live in France, in about October bought a kit of the internet for €150 to convert my petrol fiesta to e85, at the moment diesel and petrol are both €2 per litre, whereas today the E85 has fallen to €0.75. I loose about 10% range but get that back in performance feels a bit jumpier but does struggle on cold mornings.
*Thank goodness some of big retailers started taking a stand against the crazy price increases I imagine if it wasn't for that prices would be at £2 pounds something by now* 😐
You guys do know that vegetable oil will be getting extremely rare because a lot of it is made in the ukraine ans russia, so prices will skyrocket as well.
Got my mk 1 Skoda Fabia VRS which I have had since new: 50 mpg plus on a run means pain is not too bad though Diesel is 11p more than petrol in my area.
My ex used to run a care home, I used to collect about 25 litres of USED veg oil per week from the kitchens fir free. Filtered it in my shed using a screen filter and sand. My motoring used about another 20 litres on top. Interestingly at the time, to buy cooking oil was about the same cost as diesel. So I used to use the old cooking oil, mixed with actual diesel, but occasionally used neat USED oil, which was of course free. Never had a problem, it was a Vauxhall movano. I think if you used some kind of solvent to thin it down, you could get away with it in a more modern engine. This is branded as "cheating the system" , but of course there isn't actually a fuel called diesel, it's a diesel engine, the fuel is heavy oil, as it says on the v5 document. The engine is named after Rudolf diesel, who invented it so it could be run on any oils. You're actually using it as intended. It's the wanker government calling the fuel diesel , that cons people into buying their fuel.
Since Ukraine and Russia are the 2 the first producers of sunflowers using vegetable oil won't be advantageous over fuel. Veggie oil price is poised to rise.
As soon as the fuel prices went past £1.55, i decided to buy 500litres from aldi. i just walked in and asked to order 510litres of sunflower oil. 3 days later I went and picked it up. been running 100% for the last month now. I did a RUclips video but i'm no good at describing stuff.
Had me absolutely cracking up with the Fake Taxi stuff, the blurred face was gold 😂 😂😂
what is this Fake Taxi that you are talking about?
@@LetOthersFindThis big Jon
you could say that was the money shot lol
I'm dying here with how many people know about the Fake Taxi stuff. Total jokes!
I was gonna comment if this was THE taxi.
Love how you guys first did a lot of research on where to best mount the cameras in the taxi. There sure are a lot of helpfull videos out there that have the same setup as yours. Good job 👏🏼
I wonder which platform is best for such research. Is it Po（Censored）ub or is it Xv（Censored）os
They're so knowledgeable about the features they found in this one missing from the taxis they have recently seen and how drivers interact with passengers. Sounds like they had done a lot of very specialist taxi research.
@@thomas316 **whoosh**
And your comment is edited 😂
You've said a sentence there but I can't quite understand what it means
I had a stroke reading this
Can i have a simplified version of this?
A few years back I ran an old Polo SDI on a 50:50 mix of diesel : veg oil. It wasn't great on straight diesel, so best to mix it. And regular fuel filter changes required. Bought the oil in bulk from the likes of Costco or like local Asian food places often did decently priced bulk, 20L drums. I think at one point I was £15 for a 20L drum, so 75p per litre.
It was roughly a 45L tank in that car, so 20L of veg oil, then top up with 20L diesel. So £51 to fill the motor with 40L of the mix (assuming £15 drum and £1.80 per litre for diesel). Used to get around 400 miles per tank so that's around 12p per mile (or £6.37 for your 50 mile journey).
Cheap motoring that. I was commuting around 100 miles a day at that point, so it was worth it for me. I used an old 2L "pop" bottle as my funnel. Cut off half of the "bottom" of the bottle and used it as the funnel. Was tricky starting off the 20L drum, but wasn't too messy.
Just checked prices it's around £40 now
@@fractalofgod6324 You can get oil from old restaurants but it takes a bit of a hustle and some diy refining
Done the exact same with a fabia sdi a caddy sdi and countless old peugeots its mega cheap and you can gwt away with a slightly thicker mix in the summer
my old Megane on LPG got about 33 mpg. 60p a litre, sometimes 50p, so that 50 mile journey would have cost under £4. Even now it's only £6.
@@juchetony1910 Years ago I also had a Range Rover P38. It was the 4.6L V8, with an LPG tank. I averaged 13.5 mpg with that thing. I loved it. But back then, I remember paying over £200 to fill both tanks one day.
Seems like Alex and jack are well knowledge
to the taxi game 😂
What kinda taxi game are we talking about mate 😂😂😂😂
@@trishennaidoo1309 TX2 56 plate
@@trishennaidoo1309 shorter grill
Explains the stains on his laptop 😂
Tough assignment researching for this one 👀
"What would you do with that money that you'd save?"
"Buy some diesel"
Modern problems require modern solutions
Then invest in the diesel.
If you guys moded this by removing weight, you could have an eco-friendly track day car. If you made it into a public event with "Chippies", you could use the waste oil from their operations selling "chips" to your spectators/fans/subscribers, and then race for free. Possibly even profit. I really like where this is going.
I have an eco car lol. It has solar and its been places
Just imagine taking the rear interior out and sticking a huge engine in
I would go full batshit crazy on this one. Like full plush interior with fake long fur (or shag carpet) roof in some weird colour (neon blue or bright orange or something like that) and a smoke machine in the back, padded PU leather exterior, probably with zebra stripes or something equally weird (and of course couch buttons), full tinted windows in the front (red or yellow), and there's so much useable space in the front, I'd add a fridge and/or a backing oven. I'd turn it into a total eyecatcher for all the wrong reasons.
@Justin .....you're on something. :)
@@ReviewedbyRob no
For my American friends who are wondering how the price of fuel translates from pounds/l to dollars/gal, the price shown at 0:15 works out to $8.83 per gallon. You, my UK friends, have the absolute short end of the stick when it comes to fuel prices and I'll never complain about what I pay at the pump ever again.
jeez im sitting here complaining about $45 to fill up i cant even imagine what they're going through😂🤦🏻♂️
A lot of it is tax. That and UK fuel tends to be higher octane. Cheapest fuel here is 95 octane. We can't even buy 87 or 93.
It's not too bad when you realise we tend to drive smaller more economical cars and our average journey distance is shorter.
(Since our country is allot smaller) the longest travel distance in the UK is 1,000 miles by road (Land's End to John o' Groats, Englands most southern point to Scotland's most northern point). My Toyota Aygo averages 70mpg (although I can imagine doing this it would be more 80mpg) and costs 10p a mile at the current fuel prices meaning I could drive 1,000 miles for £100.
My brother's wife does have a 2L petrol ford Mondeo though and it recently cost her £20 to travel 40ish miles. She's a bit of a mad driver though so I would be surprised if she's getting 20mpg (16mpg US).
I think the closest car available in the US to average car what we drive is something like the Mitsubishi mirage.
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe we pay almost 58p for fuel duty and then another 20% VAT after the total cost so around 88p per litre to our fantastic government
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe Actually the grade of fuel is very similar. UK and US just use different units for measuring octane. After conversion the octane level is pretty much the same.
The fake taxi referencess. Had me laughing hard😂😂😭
*Chuckle,* mate. It had you *_chuckle hard_* ;)
The knocking sound in old Volvos usually comes from the OAP locked in the boot.
These style of videos are literally my favourite thing to watch on RUclips
I can't find any of my favourite taxi content on RUclips
Lol
Alex said TX4 and my immediate thought was "Those are common rail and they get terrible fuel mileage" but they made it worse by buying a ticking timebomb transit engined TX2 lol
I'm not super knowledgeable about fuel delivery, but isn't common rail one of the more fuel efficient methods?
@@atherrien95 It's probably the most efficient in terms of MPG, and is generally the smoothest running as well. But it being common rail is bad in this context because it means the injectors are finer and are more susceptible to being clogged up, so you can't use cooking oil mixed into your fuel.
My dad actually drives a TX4 with the 2.5 VM Motori Chrysler common rail engine, the injectors are so fine that you can't actually see or feel the holes in the injectors with your bare eyes and hands. It's also very 'thirsty'. Goes through diesel like it's nothing, since it's heavy and has basically no torque.
I've been thinking about undertaking a project with my dad wherein we swap a 1.9 TDI PD VW motor into his TX4 since those have boat loads more torque and are likely more economical. Unfortunately it would have to stay auto, although a tiptronic would be nice.
@@v6tex Oh... You are slick with the inuendos
@@Darkest_matter What do you mean by that? I didn't write anything clever intentionally lol. Unless you're talking about how the last line has 3 words in a row that start with T?
no wonder I was like... wait that does sound like a transit van...
It’s a good job you do entertainment and comedy based car content as no one could ever take serious car advice from someone who bought an X5
What about if somebody's grandfather bought it on Ebay by accident?
Add a litre of green 2 stroke oil to a full tank, it will stop the oil clogging filters etc. Plus keep a spare fuel filter with you.
That sounds like nonsense?
@@MT_T991 Diesel has additives to prevent engine wear, cooking oil doesn't.
Cooking oil will gum up if left to sit in the system too, so don't use it unless you are going to use it up quite quickly.
I've heard that one before and seen no evidence. Even manufacturers of two stroke oil don't recommend this.
@@jackroutledge352 I suspect it's not mentioned as oil producers don't want you to use anything but diesel in your car. But that's an assumption, it also helps in diesel as they have reduced the amount of sulphur in diesel.
17:18 " What would you do with the money that you saved?" -"Buy some diesel." 🤣🤣
This is genuinely the most useful car show on or off TV. Good work lads
Anyone else want too see them mod the hell out off this 😂
Make it mid engined!
@@SurgeDashcam I would say to make it lowrider themed, it slighty has that 50-60s look.
Camper van?
I have wanted to see ones of these slammed
Drop top
Honestly the taxi comments made this video. I have actual tears of laughter. For me this is hands down the best and funniest video you’ve ever done. Absolute gold 😂😂😂
Great video, would be interesting to see a budget LPG conversion with a race or see how long you could go on one tank
It depends on the Engine and LPG generation. Old carburator engines with 1st gen LPG consume 30% more LPG than petrol and with LPG price in UK more than half petrol price it was not very economical. I had BMW e34 520 6cyl injecto on 1st or 2nd gen LPG (the kit wich has no injectors in inlet manifold for LPG, it had rounded disk wit many LPG jets and on motorway my consumption was 10.5l of petrol or 12.5l LPG / 100km ... so you can convert it to MpG or just check prices and compare costs). Find low mileage 4cyl 16v car with LPG tank in spare wheel space and you will save aprox. half of your money on fuel... (Read reviews about diffrent cars on LPG some engines work well some have backfires and engine check light all the time on)
Very popular in Poland and Holland.
Every petrol TAXI drives on LPG.
Yeahhhh and I’ve seen some eastern European budget LPG conversions on youtube, I don’t think I’d want to get in it.
Budget and LPG do not work together in my experience. It ends quite... explodey
Going racing with a bomb in the boot. Sounds like a bad idea.
Absolutely loving the comedy!! This channel is so much better than any other commercial car content
Alex is so short his legs didn’t completely reach the seat when he put his feets up 😂😂
You know you’re a man of culture when laugh at their jokes for straight 5mins
Are you gonna pick up passengers at the Fake Hub?
16:59 a good challenge could be something along the lines of what’s the best B-Road Blaster for x amount of money
That’s a cool episode. I was always curious about those. I’d like to see you guys improve it. Not by scrapping or painting black and putting yellow sticker, but fixing breaks and steering. Headlamps looks dimmed too. If not rusted bolts Ethan should be able to do some work on simple technology. Good detail can turn it around.
Love the fake taxi rodeo absolutely class 😂 should’ve done a video in the taxi on how the whole government fucked us in such very little time 😂
Great job, mates! You've set your minds on getting it cheap, worked the elbow grease, plowed thru the pile-on of shady bangers, and it seems like your efforts been paid off with a load of spare liquid!
Well done, you surely know, how to beat the pump.
Some fancy cafe at the end, btw, they even got the lasershow for customers! I kept seeing red beams, waving all over your heads, the entire conclusion time..
I have seen this style of taxi before, but it was rigged with camera's.🤔
This one's full of GoPros as well mate🤣
my mum was telling me about the same thing! she had the journey of her life she said
@@lynx8437 and I didn’t charge her for the journey.
Cash cab ?
Here's a tip for waste oil. Get 10inch water filters. Three in a row and use the cheap paper filter. 0.5 Micron final step. The finer the better. 0.2 clogged too quickly but 0.5 was good.
The filter housing uses standard fittings and get a pump to pump the good stuff.
Works like a charm
Had me rolling on the floor laughing at the "other" taxi comments!!!
A colleague of mine has a 1982 Mercedes (w124) 300d estate with a professional twin tank conversion. He starts the car on diesel, once warm, he flicks a switch and swaps to veg oil. He buys it in bulk and pays about 80p a litre. The car runs sweet as a nut
You should’ve bought a saab, they are super cheap and have a large top gear, they can do over 30+ mpg US, and they come with Diesel engines that can do even better
30mpg hahah
@@brewingfarts United States mpg. UK mpg that’s like 40+ ish. Try to find a cheap diesel that can do better
@@kennorcott7074 i got one, old vw 1.9tdi, get about 50mpg on a run with a map, there's loads of them about, in the uk anyway
@@kennorcott7074 I bought a 2.2 mondeo for £900 (with all fancy bits too, exhaust, alloys etc which can be sold to recuperate some cost I guess) which averages 49 mpg.
Heated seats, aircon, heated front screen, auto lights, auto wipers etc. A fair bit of car for the price.
All across Europe the prices of old diesels which can run on oil and old petrol engines that can be easily converted to LPG, have basically quadrupled over night. Early to mid 90s cars now go easily for €2000+, where 6 months ago people were wondering how to get rid of them. IT's just insane.
I used to drive a Silver TX1 SE for Saint Dunstans Charity for the war blind now called Blind Veterans UK. It had the Nissan 2.7 litre fuel injection diesel engine. It's a 8 gallon tank and I used to get 15mpg on a good day or 9 mpg in the city. Back seats fold,and there's a ramp in the back for wheelchair users. The back doors open a full 90° max speed 97 mph. You can take the divider out and fit a seat in the front, Best change the tyres for a better ride.
How are there still cars in the UK that are less than 1000? That feels impossible right now
I got a perfectly working and fairly clean civic for £500 not long ago. Laughed at my bargain all the way home.
Theirs a thing called Facebook marketplace or the gypos they always sell dodgy cars
People who are keen to sell quickly combined with poorly looked after cars in need of servicing and new parts. But also non performance cars that are expensive to tax and poor on fuel, they are not desirable anymore, meaning people will only buy them if they are cheap to the point where it's a bargain for someone.
@@ShedLifeUK Nice. What year?
Bought an 05 focus for £500
Put a £150£ mot on it, sold or £900
We need a follow up to this of either 1 month effects on the engine or just thrashing it after some weight reduction/"performance mods"
Great choice on Sunflower Oil. The biggest supplier is a really quiet place called... Ukraine I think? Doubt there'll be any issues with supply.
Man I missed those vids, keep em coming. A fun fact to know is that the original diesel engine was designed to ryn on veg oil and technically diesel engines can still run on veg oil, that is cheap and it also acts as a lubricant. Altough it has advantages it shouldnt be used for an extented period of time because after a while microorganisms are going to start being created and and then there is something like mud that is being formed from them that can block the pump, or the becks. Another fact is that the diesel that everyone is using right now contains 2% ,or maybe a bit more, biodiesel which is produced from fried ( or used in any way veg oil) and the goal is for that percentage to keep increasing in the coming years
Oi tell you something I absolutely love you lads, sound geezers just pissing around having fun with 4 wheels. You don't take yourselves too serious either, keep it that way! Doing a great job boys 👍
Sounds like you'd have enjoyed the back of that taxi
Funniest Car Throttle yet, Fake taxi banter, PMSL at you lot, Ace! 😂
How tf do you buy a taxi by accident 😂
Taxi driver couldn't afford his *services*
I don't know! I own 13 taxis and I have no idea why!
"I wanted an Austin Maxi, not a Taxi!"
_Alcohol_
If you start to use veg oil in a vehicle that has always used diesel change the fuel filter after the first tank full has gone through. This is because veg oil is thicker than diesel and picks up any crap in the tank. If there's a lot of crap at the first filter change you may need to change the filter again after another couple of tank fulls. You can thin veg oil out by using methylated spirit (but you must pay fuel duty and VAT on the meths) if you get any running issues due to thick veg oil
This might be the funniest video from Car Throttle, laughing so much at all the Fake Taxi chat 🤣
Had an old 1999 S-reg Shitron berlingo (DW8 1.9 engine) that I ran on 100% used restaurant cooking oil for about 5 years.
Didn't even need a 5 micron filter either, just ran it through a boggo standard coffee filter and put it straight in the tank.
I think I did approximately 60,000 miles on used oil before I sold it to another veg burner about 5 years ago and I still sometimes see it on the road now.
I was sure it would be a Lupo Diesel at first, until I saw the prices of them now. 😂
I sure am glad I'm drving a multijet Panda right now 😀
I used to work for lti as a technician and we had loads of problems with the Ford engine especially timing chains, cams pulling out the heads, fuel pump solenoids, fead belts being noisy due to tensioner failure but when running properly they drove really well.
I love how innocent Ethan is, his stupidity makes me chuckle😂
He’s not stupid. Just talking about a subject he isn’t so knowledgeable on.
@@trainman665 Well said.
This is by far your best video yet…sat hear laughing my head off 😉 great work and great content as usual 👏👏👏
"This is how you win against government tax"
Until the government drive up the price of cooking oil through tax to match the price of diesel, again. 🙄
That's exactly the reason why veg oil is the price it is today ~£1 per litre, because the last time there was a spike in fuel price everyone realised they could use veg, then the government realised they could tax it more aswell win win for them
@@Chill2221 The government didn’t tax it more. The supermarkets and suppliers just had to charge more as demand went up. It’s been going on for 20 odd years. Happens less effectively now as most people don’t want to drive a vehicle old enough to do it. Also the saving isn’t that great unless you have a very thirsty car or do mega miles.
@@trainman665 still crooks, MPs prolly got shares in rso
Cooking oil isn’t taxed
@@Aron-ru5zk It’s amazing how many idiots just blame the government and tax for everything going up in price.
12:25 😂😂😂 It didn’t even phase me when it showed a big blurred face then I realised oh that’s not normal
You can also use old engine oil from any oil changes/ or and mix with oil. btw did you not think the motor started to stink like a graesy spoon? I used to run a old pd 100 seat Ibiza 1998 plate on these, just had to do a more regular fuel filter change.
4:30 yes they do. You can clearly hear it.
Yes they run on everything. Even ran old engine oil at 100% in my Mondeo with that engine and it worked fine and started just like on Diesel
Used to run my old Citroen ZX diesel on veggie oil - every third fill was diesel, but I really was saving money. Course, what you've not mentioned is how your car then smells like a chip shop, for those who are in traffic behind you 😊
same here, well 306 - XUD engine (same in both vehicles i believe)
ha, though I only went to 20% veg oil in my ZX, and it stank like a chippie even then 😀
@@MultiVogon i found anything over 90ish% and it was down on power and mpg was lower also. old trick was to brim the tank with veg oil and add 1 litre of petrol to thin it out a bit
just reminded me of a time i ran out of fuel and mother in law came to the rescue with a bottle of filippo bereo olive oil lol
@@greenspoondcfc the V-Power of vegetable oils 😂
@@greenspoondcfc 1 litre of petrol!?
the fake taxi jokes killed me
I think you guys should keep running the taxi on veg oil and see how that holds up for the long run. Ofc saving money on veg oil rather diesel would efficiently work for the long run if there aren't much repairing to do for the engine later lol.
‘Fake taxi on full throttle, 3 wise men battle the pumps’.
Can we just appreciate the work that’s gone into that mk2 rs at the pub 👏
Absolutely golden this episode. Haven’t laughed like this in ages. All the best guys.
Heres how to beat it. Get a van cut a hole in the floor. take the plates off and any distinguishing features. Go when the servo is shut and park over the dipstick vents. open the hole in the floor, open the vent and put a hole down into the tank. use a suction pump manual not electric and pump all the fuel you need into a 1000l ibc in the back of the van. then drive off. make sure to cover your face and afterwards enjoy the fuel.
"If there's a payment problem, or the card payment doesn't work, there's always means and way" 😂😂😂
I’m smart myself I just bought a 1994 Ford F-150 4x4 5.0 5 speed! I have 2 tanks with a total capacity of over 168 liters! Yay Mercia!!!
Superb hilarious video once again and loved all the Fake Taxi references!👌🙈🤣
The puns were top class lads 😂 the blurred face had me dead 💀
Love the video and love that old Taxi!
I drive a 1.9 TDI and what I am thinking of doing is the little setup to convert Veg oil to Biodiesel.
Easily get it done get to the old chippy and boom your in business I'm thinking of brewing some and selling it for half price I used to do 8 litres of veg with 2 litres of pure diesel
Old Mercedes and land rovers run well on a 50/50 mix of vegetable oil and paraffin!
I don’t know if it’s worth it to go through the whole rigamarole of converting veg oil to proper biodiesel. I think it’s a bit difficult and messy, you need to buy chemicals to do it, and you can’t really store it for long so you gotta convert it sort of fortnightly or monthly?
I reckon if you get free used oil just concentrate on filtering it really well and mixing it with diesel (more diesel in the winter). Or spend the money on a system where you start and finish the vehicle on straight diesel, but convert to veg oil when the engine is nice and hot.
Don’t use supermarket oil. It’s got additives in it for cooking that isn’t good for engines. To be honest it’s probably not going to be worth the hassle.
Just do 10mph less 😂
the banter was off the charts :)
The vw group 1.9 tdi is a great fuel efficient diesel
8:50 "However it will swallow a lot of vegetable oil, whether it likes it or not" LOL
That saxo from the nc500 trip will be decent on fuel 👍
Not really. My mother had saxo with 1.1 petrol engine and it did 10-11l/100km (mostly city driving).
those small engine cars are not as efficient on fuel as people think the problem is your constantly ragging it just to keep up gotta red line it every where lol.
Depends on revs and gear
Completely agree with Alex on the old Peugeots. I have a 205, C15 van, and ancient LDV all with diesel Peugeot engines.
And now sunflower oil is all out worldwide and selling for €10 a liter online😂
There will be a limit in supermarkets soon.
@@MattyBrad Here in France there is already a limit because people were using it for their old diesels so now it is 4-5 1L bottles per consumer
You can use most cooking oil, not just sunflower :P
80% of the global supply of sunflower oil comes out of Russia and Ukraine
The irony that now petrol prices have fallen by like 45p per litre
Note: The TX4 doesn't have a Transit engine, the TX2 does. The TX4 has a 2.4 VM Motori engine.
The transit is a 2.4 16 valve , the VM is a 2.5 16 valve . The VM is a euro 4 hence the tx4 .
@@dennisphoenix1 yes, your right. And also the petrol was a 2.4 engine.
Been running my Peugeot 405 td on a mix of diesel and veg. Runs a treat
You should get one off them blue lights to see how bad it really is inside 🤣🤣
I’m actually thankful I just got what I did. 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring, because Canada. Going from a Jeep Grand Cherokee with the L6 to a 5 speed 4 banger was huge. $20 can get me 3 days of driving to and from work instead of just one day in the Jeep.
Thinking we would miss the fake taxi quote haha
Old peugeot diesels are brilliant, there was an old 309 1.8 that had 750,000 miles on it (taxi car). Only major things that went wrong were the clutch and the head gasket.
I live in Germany, I haven't seen vegetable oil in the shops for weeks :-D
I live in France, in about October bought a kit of the internet for €150 to convert my petrol fiesta to e85, at the moment diesel and petrol are both €2 per litre, whereas today the E85 has fallen to €0.75. I loose about 10% range but get that back in performance feels a bit jumpier but does struggle on cold mornings.
*Thank goodness some of big retailers started taking a stand against the crazy price increases I imagine if it wasn't for that prices would be at £2 pounds something by now* 😐
And what retailers are these🤔🤔
Oil prices have dropped recently.
I am absolutely howling at the in-taxi scene. Absolute gold
The irony is you could be beating the current fuel prices if you filled a big tank with diesel when it was 99p a litre during the first lockdown!
Which we did at home :D except the fuckers have got us on the price of red now for our farm equipment
Great vid, did you notice the "tax man" by the mini watching you when you were filling the tank in the Asda carpark with your "tax free fuel" LOL
You guys do know that vegetable oil will be getting extremely rare because a lot of it is made in the ukraine ans russia, so prices will skyrocket as well.
And a lot is getting bought up to produce renewable diesel
In the past (discovery 1) I ran pure veg oil, i got it from Takeaway Cash and carry for £22 for 25 litres. The Bosch VE pumps are the daddy!!
"has livery" John definitely selling his taxi 😂
Got my mk 1 Skoda Fabia VRS which I have had since new: 50 mpg plus on a run means pain is not too bad though Diesel is 11p more than petrol in my area.
I bought my first car 3 months ago at the age of 37 and picked a 325i. Super unleaded was £101 for a full tank.
"Do you want to come in the back?" - "Yeah that'll do it"🤣🤣
It's back to "Miles" with you alex
YEP. Thats actually the best idea, if you want to save on fuel. Just not use fuel at all, but something else :D
I've got 1.6 48v Kia Sportage thinks it's the sweet spot 50mpg regular does not cost loads to buy and run and very reliable.
We need a part 2 to see if it’s still running!!!
"Do you want to come in the back?" "Yeah, that'll do it" 🤣🤣🤣absolute gold. Which one of you really wanted to be Big Jon?
FakeTaxi I’m dead😂
just bought a 106 1.5 diesel, 45liters of diesel/veg oil, 1200kms, so far, best deal i ever made =)
how beat fuel prices : get an audi a2 with a manual gearbox and get the 6. gear kit installed :)
You guys just keep succeeding. Incredible stuff!
I ran my focus tddi on vege oil for 4 years till a young lady parked in the side of it .... Modern common rail diesels are too fragile..:(
My ex used to run a care home, I used to collect about 25 litres of USED veg oil per week from the kitchens fir free. Filtered it in my shed using a screen filter and sand. My motoring used about another 20 litres on top. Interestingly at the time, to buy cooking oil was about the same cost as diesel. So I used to use the old cooking oil, mixed with actual diesel, but occasionally used neat USED oil, which was of course free. Never had a problem, it was a Vauxhall movano. I think if you used some kind of solvent to thin it down, you could get away with it in a more modern engine. This is branded as "cheating the system" , but of course there isn't actually a fuel called diesel, it's a diesel engine, the fuel is heavy oil, as it says on the v5 document. The engine is named after Rudolf diesel, who invented it so it could be run on any oils. You're actually using it as intended. It's the wanker government calling the fuel diesel , that cons people into buying their fuel.
Since Ukraine and Russia are the 2 the first producers of sunflowers using vegetable oil won't be advantageous over fuel. Veggie oil price is poised to rise.
Remember miles the skoda.
Using mcdo as if it was shell
If you can even find it. Shelves are empty at my local Tesco.
Jack is so awkward when buying a vehicle i die with laughter every time 😂 🤣
As soon as the fuel prices went past £1.55, i decided to buy 500litres from aldi. i just walked in and asked to order 510litres of sunflower oil. 3 days later I went and picked it up. been running 100% for the last month now. I did a RUclips video but i'm no good at describing stuff.
Is it just me or it missing an auxiliary belt from the engine. When the first start it look to the left of the engine. @9:05
Me too. It's probably the a/c compressor, which looked knackered. So rather than replace it, the drive belt was simply removed?