Was £542 to get it back on the road, kind of stings a bit considering the Pug 205 cost us the grand total of £300 on the road and has cost us very little in repairs to get it roadworthy..... but it's just a runabout and it's cheap to run at that.....Alas the same can't be said about the Terrano... we can't really afford to get rid of it at the moment so it's a cost we have to absorb, but at £86 to fill up the tank and a tank lasts just under 500 miles..... it's an expensive hobby.....
it doesn't help having to run the kids back and forth into town in it for their ever expanding social life with the hoodies of Carmarthen when of course the Pug is being used by me, but we try to minimise its use, I'm seriously considering running it on chip oil, you can put 2500 litres through it a year without any tax liability, but I'm wondering if it will do any long term (expensive) engine damage to it, but with veg oil for sale at £0.86 per litre it's tempting, I will have to change the fuel filter after a couple of tankfuls at a 50/50 dilution because apparently it strips the dino-diesel varnish off the inside of the pipes and tank and clogs the filter but once the dino-varnish has been removed all is ok .......... apparently .... mind you with diesel over £5 a gallon now it's probably going to be cheaper to wreck your engine than use it ;¬)
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