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  • I have a 91 Merc Diesel W124

    I am thinking of trying this on my car

  • I'll sun my keen page

  • Anyone else notice that the Volvo in the film looks just like the one that Jeremy used in a different challenge where James had an Audi and Richard had a Rover. At the end they had to crash into wall.

  • What year was this shown

  • HAHA 3:24 did anyone notice the AA man hit his head on the boot of the car lol

  • lol 3:25 look at the guy

  • ya like im gona tell the tax man .tax man go fuck your self

  • Just watch mythbusters if you do not believe this haha. They did an episode on it, even checking the mileage and it was the same.

  • would white spirit work with new vegatable iol??

  • The only bad thing is it has to be used and needs to 3ml of that thing, plus you need to leave it for a week, im sorry, but thats just a waste of time.

  • @InSaNeNuKeBoY Just make sure you buy a whole tank extra so you never have to wait a week. and hey, beats paying for regular gas.

  • @phanthomboy Yeah

  • @InSaNeNuKeBoY Why? Waste of time, which you would otherwise have to spend at work to make the money to pay for the diesel.. I haven't done the maths and of cause it depends on how much you earn pr. hour of work. If you only make 3 pence and hour it will work out brilliantly, if you make 100 quid an hour it will probably be cheaper to run it on normal diesel and then work a bit more.

  • Would this work with a Golf GT TDI 2.0?

  • @HotpointForever for common rail it has to be filtered superd

    but any 1.9 would be just fine

  • @HotpointForever Any kind of vegetable oil will work.Make sure your car has a bosch fuel pump.Lucas pumps are to wimpy.Used engine oil works also.But you need to filter it first.

  • Only really to be tried on an old skool diesel, i.e the 1970's mercedes 4 and 5 cylinder as fitted to w123, also peugeots indenor as fitted to 504s, sierras, granadas and LDV 400 is ok on it. I owned one of these volvos with the VW LT d24t engine, that did many trouble free miles on veg. some more modern stuff is ok but there WILL be issues with the EGR valve if you have one and anything with a lucas injector pump will die very quickly on veg.

  • used oil from frech fries also can be use for fuel

  • i wonder what mexican food is like in Britain

  • Me and dad on this kind of thing XD

    Me - Why does your car smell of kebab meat?

    Dad - Thats the fuel ya half wit......

    hahahah XD

  • Well as a swede i have to say, that volvo can run on anything. Very reliable engine and can run for thousands of miles. Good ol' volvo

  • haha AA just steals the car

  • A: Your car smells.... Mexican.

    B:That's the Oil from the Taco...:)

  • lol mexico j c looks 2 bent

  • lol he looks so long

  • california banned bio diesel because they wern't getting their tax money. it is now considered "toxic waste"

  • you can run alcohol in a car also. i thought Top Gear would have done that already because they seem to like high performance cars.

  • @switchgrassfuel

    You can run a petrol car on pure ethonol but not a diesel.

  • @blackrockgroup i have seen diesel engines run ethanol before. their are even some videos on You Tube. ethanol can be used in any internal combustion engine. it may need modifying, but it is possible.

  • @switchgrassfuel you would need to modify it to a petrol lol. Ethanol is not oily enugh and is to flamable. Ethanol would stop compression as it burns to quickly making it useless

  • @blackrockgroup first off ethanol burns slower than diesel. you do use more because it has less btu than gas or diesel. but it can be compressed even more than diesel. i think when ADM ran their diesel trucks on ethanol they raised the compression from 18 to 23 or something like that. i am not shire on all of the stats because i don't have them in front of me right now. i am aware that you loose efficiency with ethanol. but you can run ethanol in a diesel engine. i have seen tractors do it also.

  • @blackrockgroup No you cant without modifications .

  • can you put the vegetable oil in the tank with the diesel that was already inside?

  • It's 2011 and he is still driving

  • Thanks to the money coming in from the Oil companies to the Goverment they have made it illegal for Resturants to give they used oil to people.

  • TDI from now on meens Taco Direct Injection

  • Ford Excursion 7.3, smell meeeh!

  • Elix-e-air.

  • my volvo has also no problem with it. 80:20 Veggi:diesel and it runs easily in summer. but 1,39€ for "fresh" vegetable oil and 1,43€ for diesel isn´t profitable...till the Liter Diesel goes up to 1,49 and more

  • I wanna see a video where Top Gear meets Mythbusters

  • @bigun89 If you are saying the fixed this to fake it or whatever, first deisel engine ever made ran on oil as a form of gas. So this needs not a mythbuster

  • anyone else see the mechanic brain himself on the boot lid?

  • 240p, we meet again.

  • @mrnathv Retarded comment, we meet again.

  • I love the sound of old diesel engines and Volvos are the best ones :)

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  • i would say that that aint a car its a tractor so plz dont call it a car have owned 1 ^^

  • No Jeremy, it's a 760, not a 740! ;-)

  • "And how much tax do we have to put in?"

  • dont eat it, burning it is much better.

  • it's a Vovlo! Obviously it will start!!

  • i fucking love the sound of diesel in a car.

  • 240p, we meet again

  • BBC is not what it USED to be. More british brainwashing CORP.

  • @TheBENGALHANNIBAL not what it used to be when?this is 5 years old..

  • @gargantuate

    The british brainwashing Corp has changed from 2000. If you look at the heads, some are traced back to banksters or oil corporation.

    I remember top gear(now just baseless mouth piece) used to be quite informative, exploring different fuels ie poor nations using sugar cane as fuel & humerus.

  • @TheBENGALHANNIBAL Don't insult Top Gear! I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE!

  • @TheBENGALHANNIBAL Eat a massive bag of dicks, you cock sucking fuck hole.

  • @3rdsnowleopard

    Clearly you speak from experience, you POPE CUM guzzling sCUM!!

  • The Diesel engine was originally designed to run on Peanut Oil - The inventor died mysteriously and the Oil companies started selling thier version of Diesel, the fossil fuel kind with the higher profits!! This does work!

  • 26p is a really cheap way to kill your engine.

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  • Gotta love them Supermarket Trains!

  • will i have to pay tax if i ran my car on dead babies

  • i used to use cooking if i didnt have any 2 stroke as a kid and worked just fine

  • Throw some chips in

  • sounds like a frying pan..

  • I've done this and it works very well!

  • @simonspaz

    this is bullshit. it doesnt work. i used it on my 1999 ford mondeo. first i got 20 litres used veg oil from chip shop. i then filtered it as shown on video using a cleaning cloth.

    i added kerosine and left it standing for 7 days.

    i then used it in my car. every time i was driving it smelt badly of kersonene ! after 3 days, the car became sluggish. after a week the fuel pump in the car stopped working !! my car got messed by the veg oil.

    so BEWARE: IT DOESNT WORK.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked If you listen to the video Clarkson said " it works in any OLD diesel" 1999 will be considered new compared to the old Volvo.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked Err, doesn't he specify a NON-kerosene based solvent?

  • @BillTheBard

    i used a non-kerosene based solvent (white spirit in fact ) . but still smelt of kerosene. fuel pump got damaged. i think this works on certain older cars not all cars

  • @SuperstarTheMasked

    Yes, this should not be tried in modern cars without better knowledge. Traditional engines like old Mercedes function well. Mixing with petroleum diesel fuel is sometimes necessary.

    Just like most actual biodiesels, this only works in warm climates. Mixing with normal diesel fuel only adds very little protection against freezing.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked

    Yes, this should not be tried in modern cars without better knowledge. Traditional engines like old Mercedes function well. Mixing with petroleum diesel fuel is sometimes necessary.

    Just like most actual biodiesels, this only works in warm climates. Mixing with normal diesel fuel only adds very little protection against freezing. The problem there is not with the engine but fuel tank and lines.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked That's a ford for ya...I've done this for 10 years in my old Mercedes Diesels and they all work fine...So it DOES work.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked

    This is not bullshit. It worked with my car for about 4000 miles until I sold it. It was a vauxhall astra turbo diesel 1.7.

    Were you there to see my car break like yours?

    No. You have no way of disproving my claim.

    You can also read the other comments to see that it does work.

    The diesel engine was originally designed to work on a wide range of viscosity and type of slow burning fuel. The concept has stayed roughly the same over the years.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked

    ...So why not use vegetable oil?

    It's worked very well for many people over the years.

    You obviously don't know how to prepare the mix it as you broke your car, and it's not my fault that you fucked up.

    Further research on websites such as dieselbob (google it if you know how to!) will determine if your distributor and fuel pump was indeed compatible to use other types of fuels that can be ignited well under compression ignition.

  • @SuperstarTheMasked Non kerosine NON KEROSINE MATE

  • @rms16006

    yes, i used NON KEROSENE

  • This is a 1990 760!!!!

  • Im suprised macdonalds havent cottoned on to this idea, they use gallons and gallons, have the drive through already set up and nobody is more than a mile or two from a mackie deez so why arnt they offering us 30p a gallon? I wonder what Monopoly prizes we would win!

  • The guy who invented the diesel engine desiogned it to operate on vegtable oil.

  • @kd7one peanut oil actually

  • @kd7one

    Psst, it was peanut oil, but close enough

  • @kd7one what does desiogned mean?

  • @kd7one Peanut oil I believe.

  • @kd7one peanut oil to be exact. 

  • @kd7one it was rudolph diesel, and it was designed to run on peanut oil.

  • @martyg565

    And actually came from the design of the early "fire piston" Brilliant!

  • SWEEET IMA DO IT !

  • You get used oil because new unused stuff is EXPENSIVE. And yes, it does work. Don't even need to add anything if you're in warm weather. Stir that crap so it can mix in everywhere. My goodness, knows his finances but not anything about the process.

  • Great video. At Hahn Environmental Services the entire company runs off biodiesel, it is a carbon neutral company.!

  • does it affect the car insurance?

  • MEXICANS. lol

  • Beautiful Volvo

  • while biodiesel itself works fairly ok, it's being marketed by false claims. we finns got it by promising that it would hit the stations by considerably lower prices. what was the truth? its equal to most expensive option, and the mileage is slightly worse than any of the options. then theres the wear to regular engines and so on. tl;dr, biofuels might be an option but theres lot of things that they're not telling us. all hail eco-fascism.

  • can i fry my egg when the oil gets hot?

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  • why did you add anything to the oil

  • I've never owned a diesel before, could someone please explain to me what Jeremy meant by having to bleed the system first? Does he mean every time you fill it up?

  • @NMbarrassment No you don't have to bleed the system every time you fill up. Only if theres no fuel in the system like if you run out whilst driving.

  • @gunner49061 Thank you for your response. If there's no fuel in the system, what do you bleed? How long does it take? And is it something an average person can do or does it have to be a mechanic?

  • @NMbarrassment You only bleed the fuel system when you run out of fuel, which causes that air to get into the fuel lines. All you have to do is to disconnect the fuel lines that go to the combustion chambers, crank the engine, and wait for fuel to come out. Right there you stop cranking the engine, and connect the lines again and is ready to go. Some vehicles even have a little hand pump to bleed the system, it is used mostly when replacing the fuel filters which also puts air in the system.

  • @NMbarrassment Also, just to clarify, bleeding something means to get rid of the air. You do it to hydraulic systems in certain machines, you do it to your break system after replacing certain components (no just while replacing pads and calipers), and you do it to your fuel system when air got into the fuel lines because you allowed the fuel tank to run dry.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo Thanks a lot for your very informative responses, I really appreciate it.

  • OH! He didnt put on a seatbelt.

  • taxing you for what comes out of your fucking shed batsrds!!

  • 10/10

  • does anyone know what season and episode is this

  • @pepovr Season 1 Episode 1

  • Dear ferrari, please make a 30litre diesel engine........

  • downloaded top gear challenges from btjunkie ^^

  • But doesn't it make engine last shorter? I mean, I should broke down, because oil is thick.

  • @mieguistumas yeah, but the white spirit makes it thin

  • @lukerobin01, clue is in the name mate, all diesels are fuel injected be it IDI or DI but it still is fuel injection, I own a 306 with the xud9te in it and it has an injection pump and injectors,

  • @lukerobin01, clue is in the name mate, all diesels are fuel injected be it IDI or DI but it still is fuel injection, I own a 306 with the xud9te in it and it has an injection pump and injectors,

  • The issue with this fuels is not if it works or not, the issues is that most likely will ruin your car on the long run. I was a mechanic for the USAF and I can tel you from personal experience that running on anything else besides regular low sulfur diesel will ruin your engine. The first thing it does is to clog your EGR valve, then it slowly ruins your catalytic converter, and it will take out some O2 sensors along the way. I am up for alternative fuels, but this oils are just not meant to be

  • @Vallecaucanisimo

    Thats why you don't use veg oil on modern diesels like they said.

    My old Peugeot has none of things you said, but there are other things to look out for, like oil contamination, if your oil level rises all the time then it's time to mix with regular disesl.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo Just get an old Peugeot diesel like a 205. No 02 sensors, no catalytic converter and I've not heard of an EGR valve on them although I may be mistaken by that. The biggest problem I've heared is that many fuel pumps can not take it so you have to mix.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo

    so how do you avoid this problem then ? is it better to mix the oil with some diesel ? will that be better ? say 60% oil and 40% regular diesel ?

    i have a w reg ford mondeo. if i fill my tank with 40% diesel. i can then just add straight vegetable oil into my tank for the remainder 60%, right ?

    that should not cause any problems ?

  • @fonzi0was0cool Sorry dude, there is no way to avoid it...there are vehicles that do better than others of course, but on the long run it could cause mechanical problems. Now, that is not to say that your engine will break, but the emission control components might and it will cause problems along the way. We used to run trucks on 20% Bio-diesel, which come from other sources and it still causes problems. Now, is not something that will happen over night on in a year, but it will eventually.

  • @fonzi0was0cool Also, have in mind that mixing fuels might not be the best thing for your car, specially diesel. You have to make sure they are from the same quality and cetane rating. the one thing that always pisses me off about alternative fuels is that they deliver less power and therefore you use more fuel which defeats the purpose of using them. You could do that mileage test your self and you will see what I mean. The crappy part also is that in some areas all you can find is bio-diesel.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo show me your car running on wvo. you don't know what you're talking about

  • @tonycavez Not sure what you are talking about, I did not get a single word of what you said. You have and old truck with no emission control components that works fine with the stuff, it does not mean that all older trucks will work the same. Newer trucks require low sulfur diesel otherwise you will ruin your injection pump, I don't think you even know what an EGR is and why it gets stuck with Bio-diesel. Some older diesel trucks will run fine with any diesel-like fuel, but most do not.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo listen dude I have been a mechanic for 36 years I can teach you a thing or two about an egr valve ,no car requires low sulfer diesel its only for anti polution purposes,besides the mercedes 300sd I also own a GMC 6.5 diesel with a computer controlled fuel injected pump and it does have an EGR and runs just fine on wvo

  • @tonycavez Well man, I have been a mechanic too you know and I can tell you from personal experience that Bio-Diesel will clog your EGR valve. And yes, low sulfur diesel was created with the intent of reducing emissions, how ever newer cars do require it. If not used damage to the fuel pump components could occur. Older cars do not require but newer than 2008 do. Also, what you fail to realize is that the EGR technology is not the same for a 1995 than a 2008.

  • @tonycavez Now, have in mind that I am not saying that your truck will run like crap, but it is very likely that there is heavy carbon deposits in your exhaust system due to the use of certain alternative fuels, such as Bio-Diesel. I cannot tell you how many EGRs I have replaced because they got stuck due to the high carbon built up. It is not something that will happen over night but it will happen after a year or two.

  • @Vallecaucanisimo oh please give me a break biofuels are cleaner than petro fuels the glicerine left over from making biodiesel is used to make soap , e100 you could almost drink, it ' s just 100 proof moonshine , my snowblower and my wifes subaru are running on e85 and no modifications try it sometime before you make comments

  • @tonycavez I am sorry but you are the one who needs to give me a break, If you read my comments I am all up for saving the environment, however this fuels are not the solution, they are not even helping since they raise food prices. Now, about out discussion, I mentioned to you that I was a mechanic right? well I happen to be part of the USAF and we have LARGE fleet of vehicles. We have our own fuel pump on base for our government vehicles. Our Diesel supply has 20% Bio-Diesel mixed in it.

  • @tonycavez From experience, in our big ass fleet of diesel trucks, Bio-Diesel tents to deposit a heavy carbon layer in the manifolds and exhaust system. The first thing to go out is usually the EGR as it can't open and close due to the junk that the Bio-Diesel leaves. I have tested this, the fuel works but it has issues. I am not just telling you what I think, I am telling you what I have seen. I understand that you have no issues in your trucks. Well good for you but I can't recommend the stuff

  • @tonycavez I don't mean to be an asshole but you strike me as a very old school mechanic who still thinks Diesels run on anything, which is pretty ignorant if you ask me. I can see you doing the same thing our drivers do in the flight line, which is putting Jet Fuel in the diesel truck thinking it will be OK. Some Diesel trucks have engines that allow for that but in newer ones that is a rare thing.

  • @tonycavez

    bio diesel does tend to leave more deposits on injectors etc and the land needed to grow biodiesel crops is land that could be used for food so it pushes price up.

    we need a bio diesel crop that will grow anywhere; the opium poppy grows anywhere- opium as a fuel!!!

  • @fonzi0was0cool I don't really have a recommendation for you other than using straight high quality diesel engine, keeping up with maintenance, and drive your car properly. I am a huge fan making things better for the environment but in my opinion this fuels do not deliver the way they should. Somebody else might disagree and that is OK too, but since you are asking me that is all I can tell you my friend. However be glad to have a diesel! it is has great mileage regardless of the fuel you use.

  • By the way you need to make biodiesel properly, google it. Most modern diesel engines will have fuel pump/injector problems on this stuff after some weeks or months. Older engines without fuel injectors will run fine on this stuff though, probably.

  • @CCmachine All diesels have injectors mate, theres no such thing as a non injected diesel.

  • @jarrus464 There is. Indirect Injection instead of fuel injected. The older PSA XUD engines are of indirect direction so they can run it fine. Try it on a later PSA HDi engine which is fuel injected and you'll have problems.

  • u reckon this stuff would work on an audi a3 deisel.

    i hear people talking about problems with the fuel injector

  • @fredrickkc its the white spirit that takes cares of the fuel injector

  • does this make you car fat?

  • @Octavideoz vegetable oil is healthy lol what country r u from?

  • @david1991rules4life yes i know vegetable oil is healthy, but not when heated :)

  • @Octavideoz WTF? LOL when heated it doesn't magically give you worse cholesterol, it doesn't give you more calories than it being cold, it's only the food that gives you that, that it's cooked in.

  • @david1991rules4life what you need is a research on what happens to the fat in the vegetable oil when heated to a high temperature

  • @david1991rules4life when any oil is heated the fats get damaged, polyunsaturates are particularly vulnerable. It can decrease particle size of ldl which causes artery plaque.

  • @Octavideoz Not with vegetable oil, only animal oil makes your car fat. American cars use animal oil.

  • this is why i'll be getting a series 3 landy, which is also road tax exempt due to its age. so in a nut shell thats free tax disc and very cheap fuel. nice

  • I smell french fries...

  • ugh imagine running a Ford F350 on that breaks diesel head's heart that

  • got a bit of diesel knock to it though

  • @moossee32 That's just a peculiarity of the volvo's engine. all the D24 engines sound like that

  • i bet it will run slower than before.

  • @NONcopyrite i doubt it could get much slower

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  • Its better then diesel it isnt rocket science to figure it out i run oil myself, dont knock what you havnt tried that dosnt mean go put it in a new Audi Tdi an clogg the injectors. People are so scared of change its amazing how we all follow like sheep except for some of us who have a brain an knowledge.

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  • My old Mercedes likes this stuff too. No tax in the US for using old oil. But it's no longer free as the Restaurateurs figured out they can sell it.

    White spirits are more important in the winter. In the summer the oil is thin enough.

  • volvos are not great for this, not the 740 diesel anyway, , u need heated system also, anyone who things ya dont is silly,

  • he says 3ml for 97mls of oil ,,well the oil looks around 450mls in the cup and jeremy empties it to the beaker so 3mls in the is not right !! isnt it?

  • right after the camera faded it stopped working

  • when the oil runs out in the Middle East, they'd better start growing huge fields of sunflowers, rapeseed and whatever else used to make this biofuel, because what will their main income be when the oil runs out?

  • @McLarenMercedes have you ever heard about solar power from sun...

    there is pretty much sun over there and they will be selling it

  • So if my calculations are correct (may not) you would put about 1/2 cup of "spirits" to one gallon of veggie oil.

  • @yesiamanalien the info here is not 100% accurate White spirit doesn't do a thing to the veg. It's hocus pocus. Waste veg oil has a lower thermal value than diesel so the mpg is reduced by 10% or so. There is now no duty to pay on veg oil. Not any old diesel will do. Bosch injection pumps and injectors are needed ideally. Petrol thins WVO better than diesel. I have succesfully run my cars on veg for 10 years or so and covered 80,000 miles in that time. Check out database on goatindustries

  • @uraldneprvw the white spirit is just to thin it down and make it more viscous, its not there or any other purpose

  • @robertgisthebest I have tried various drip tests at different temperatures to determine the viscosity levels of veg. The minimal amount ot white spirit added doesn't do a thing to reduce viscosity. Also why the need to wait a week when it is added? There a few inconsintancies and although this programme did ultimately lead me to run my car on veg,it is not as easy as just whacking it in.It knackers up fuel guages, fuel filters and lines. There are ways round this though as I have discovered.

  • @uraldneprvw i could be totally wrong but as far as i know, vegetable oil is an ester consisting of glycerin and a variety of fatty acids... so adding spirit (which is ethanol or drinakble alcohol if you will) might cause a chemical reaction. for example splitting up some of the esters. i dont know though if that rather little amount of spirit is actually having an effect as a catalyst. as i said... i dont know, im just a high school senoir ;-)