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Hi Steve, with regard to the chip oil I went into that myself and what was required, basically you would need to have your own small refinery in the back garden and then the purchase of the additives to make real Bio Diesel, the cost did not quite make it a going proposition as unless you were going into major production the savings were minimal which is why McDonalds who run their lorries on their waste oil get it blended at a refinery which in view of the volume makes it a cheap option. We then came to the tale of the Bio Diesel plant that opened up on an industrial estate next to my local garage, at 30p a litre cheaper than them I thought it would start a price war, WRONG, the garage was not getting in to a Dutch Auction with the Bio boys because they already knew what was going to happen, Shell makes fuel at a refinery and it has to reach stringent criteria to be sold, look at the Tesco fiasco a few years ago when an over treated batch of fuel was terminating the customers engines. I digress, in the event everyone and their dog was making a beeline for the Bio boys outlet, this went on for most of the summer then when the world cooled down thats when the fun started a lot of my fellow cabbies were using Bio and were suddenly experiencing loads of limp mode, one of them asked me to plug his in to find any faults, virtually all the 1.8 tdci and 2.0 tdci I plugged into that day had the same problem, low fuel pressure which begs the question how can so many HPFPs fail at once, the answer was in the first one I changed the fuel filter on it and it was full of what appeared to be black Rowntrees jelly, because most of the early Mondeos had the filter housing hanging down by the rear subframe and open to the elements and whatever was in the Bio solidified and inhibited the fuel flow, new filter and a clean out of the filter housing produced miraculous results, the moral of the story is if its that cheap, why is it that cheap, you wouldn't give your family recycled food waste. Steve.

Hi Gareth, Thanks for informing me about the CAB. Got the ball rolling will definitely not be keeping this car by any means.

Yea thats wat he had done an fitted apart from the oil cooler he said he didn't have time to hav it fitted thanks for all ur help i need to buy a decent thermostat an try that