WVO complaints

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 29 May 2009, 10:54

Chaps, do any of you running WVO actually get complaints...

My colleague here has said she can tell when I arrive and leave the carpark

I asked her if it was a problem and she said I stink

(this morning she emailed asking why I hadn't come in, but I had driven in using some horrible VW bora petrol thing)

I asked her if I should throw my 200L brought last weekend and she said 'no'... (I would never have thrown it of course)

she also made the point she is a Vegetarian, for what ever that means..

I personally love the smell, but I guess if I was on Derv, there would be a lot less smell/smoke...

I am not in anyway worried, just curious

maybe you follow someone who stinks?

John

red_dwarfers · Post by **red_dwarfers** » 29 May 2009, 10:59

I have had collegues pick up on the smell when I have driven in, mind you there are a few of us that run on WVO/SVO.
I stick with SVO myself. I do prefer the smell when running on soya oil as apposed to rapeseed which is too sweet a smell!

Post by **CitroJim** » 29 May 2009, 12:46

Smells a lot nicer than Diesel John

Maybe she's on a diet and your car gives her hunger pangs...

I know a car running WVO makes me a bit peckish

davetherave · Post by **davetherave** » 29 May 2009, 13:13

Yep i am known to my friends as "Captain Chip Fat" and none of them want to follow me, they all overtake...
The bonus is depending on where the WVO comes from you get a different smell, ie indian chips or chinese!

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 29 May 2009, 14:20

thanks all..

Jim, she is very thin ... bit like a chip

Xaccers · Post by **Xaccers** » 29 May 2009, 14:50

I get comments too.
Netta, my housemate, gets car sick, and the smell doesn't help.
I even have to get the car up to height before she gets in as the rising turns her stomach.
I think her nightmare car would be a 1.9TD Activa running on veg!

reblack68 · Post by **reblack68** » 29 May 2009, 18:08

My mate used to run his Chavalier Diesel on a mixture of petrol and waste engine oil. It had the most noxious exhaust fumes I've ever smelt, it was even worse than a carburetted CVH.

Deanxm · Post by **Deanxm** » 29 May 2009, 21:29

We used to run my work transit 2.5 turbo on wvo, i liked the smell but the other blokes said it stunk, trouble is they couldnt overtake and get away from the smell because they have got the newer, gutless trannies

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addo · Post by **addo** » 30 May 2009, 01:38

John, TTIWWOP.

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 30 May 2009, 08:48

pics of what Addo?

her

addo · Post by **addo** » 30 May 2009, 10:07

What do you think?

Maybe ask if she'd like to meet a vegetarian carpenter.

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 30 May 2009, 10:51

its not like you are far apart really ..

actually, i will bring her over, you can keep her, she's annoying and hates sun

addo · Post by **addo** » 30 May 2009, 12:07

Deal.

If she's not good for much, I can always Ebay her...

WVO-fuelled cars are pretty rare here; far too uncommon (yet?) to really put a "nose" on the different odours. I do remember a Swiss builder here running his Landcruiser on a heater fuel blend. You could smell that.

I reckon a good splash of cod liver oil in your tank, might have the local cats a bit quizzical!