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Nice answer, are you a politician also ?
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You are the one claiming the car will go up in flames if you use veggie.

Do you have any real experience with veggie ?
Or are the things you say uninformed opinions ?

It is an easy enough question to answer.
But you might need to get past your inflated ego if your rants are not
based on any experience or facts.


RichC

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No, I'm not
I'm just messing with you guys

The only personal experience I've had with WVO is filtering it and heating it in preparation for converting it to biodiesel, but I can tell you I'd feel much more comfortable running clean, clear biodiesel in my car than WVO.

I do have to agree with whoever said it above, it is a shame that E300's are getting cheap enough that they're being converted to WVO. What a brilliant, complex way to ruin such a beautifully engineered car.

Sounds like it's time to sell mine..........mm E320 Bluetec

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01 540i 6 spd

The CDI's are probably safe from the WVO crowed for a long time. They are to expensive and to complicated.

God help you if you pour fryer grease into the tank of a Bluetech! OMFG that would be a $5k++ bill from your friendly dealer!

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Wasn't there are thread on here a while back about someone who did that? I think it was a friend or acquaintance of somebody on here.

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Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

I think it was a CDI, not a Bluetech. But I could be wrong I don't really remember.

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2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I wish! They're 15k cars up here!

You mean adding lye and methanol to perfectly good WVO, and then plugging your fuel filters with biodiesel?

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1999 e300d PlantDrive WVO/SVO conversion
**note to self: oil changed at 268k kms**
1990 Toyota 4Runner FrankenDiesel swap

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Where are all of these cars people are saying get destroyed by veggie.

I have yet to find one.

Does anyone have any credible evidence ?

All I hear is lots of horror stories but no facts.

Anybody have any proof at all ?


RichC

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I've been chucking SVO in mine for a while. No flames yet. I'm wondering what BIOpower is on about tbh.

However, you may want to read this:

http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=38035

Although I'm interested to know how often he changed the oil.


By the way, just to annoy you all, I could go and buy a 320CDi this week if I wanted for only £4000 - about $8000 for you.

I think you are right. Your memory is better than mine. I have to much info stored up there, time to purge some files.

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Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

Hacked up fuel system.


Greasy fuel tank in the trunk, and drilled holes in the cars body to run those lines.


VW
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/328/328057/folders/253144/2196195Cylinderscorecloseup2.JPG&imgrefurl=http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D186108&h=960&w=1280&sz=331&hl=en&start=195&tbnid=wF53D1Ry4hcANM:&tbnh=113&tbnw= 150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWVO%2Bmercedes%26start%3D180%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

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2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

This one.

Good God, look at the crap on those valves.

Perfectly good WVO? Sure, if you call screwing up your car with a WVO conversion "perfectly good." Just look at that tangle of fuel and coolant hoses.

The sodium hydroxide and methanol are added to precipitate all the sludge that would otherwise end up in the engine if straight WVO was burned, as was the case with that TDI ^^^ up there.

For the record, I've never had a single plugged filter between three different diesels, each going straight from petrol to B100.


And yes, the CDI/Bluetec is safe from WVO, that stuff will screw up the high pressure injection......PD TDI's (04 and newer) are also safe.

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You aren't lookin that hard. Search Frankie's last posts. There are others too; in addition to many who have gotten lucky and recognized something was wrong in time to prevent more catastrophic failure.

That said, I understand the allure and that some have been successful running WVo blends or in making their own bio home brew. Thats great if you are very organized, thorough, can put up with the mess and have the time and the desire to do so in a controlled manner. Most dont and most mess up eventually. I know of no one on this board who has put a quick 100k on their engine in a couple of years running same. Lots of folks have burnt it for 20 or 30k in the last 3 - 5 years. Show us a few examples of folks using SVO/WVO or home brew fuels for 100k, or 200k miles and make US believers....(I don't want to know about VW's....we are here to discuss MB's).

Before you ask....I wouldn't dream of burning anything other than D2 or commercially prepared B99 in mine; but, show me enough exapmles and I might change my mind.....

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N. Calif. & Boca Chica, Panama

09' E320 Bluetec 77k (USA)
09' Hyundai Santa Fe Diesel 48k (S.A.)

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Here is exactly what you are asking for.

This is a link to a database with thusands of cars that have been running
veggie for millions of miles.
If you just want information for the Mercedes you can easily do a search
for just that make.

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/fuelsdatabase/database/index.php
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Who is frankie ?
Should I search for his posts here ?
How do I find the others that have avoided catastrophy ?

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Finally, somebody that knows what should be used in their vehicle.