No big announcements were made but it has been legal to run a diesel on vegetable/ cooking oil since 30th June 2007 without paying any fuel duty as long as you use less than 2500 litres per annum, (over 20,000 miles at 40mpg).
DieselVeg
Seems quite a few older Mercs can be converted:-...
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How did any of you locals fare in Sheffield last night?
We didn't get home until after midnight this morning!
Unfortunately Mrs B took her car into the city yesterday and i spent hours trying to find her and get her parked up safely.
Every single road to our house was closed.
Now...
Wow, no more duty on biodiesel commencing 30th June !!!
http://www.dieselveg.com/
Had a look on the hmrc website and its true !! its in the whats new section for 8th June.
So basically, for own use below 2500l per year you no longer have to pay a penny :D
Mate of mine works for the Honda F1 team doing fancy software things ...
He's managed to get staff passes for the Grand Prix, and I am going with him.
It's for access to the Honda team/pit area :bannana: :bannana:
How cool is that!
I have a facelift June05 C220 CDI Coupe with widescreen COMAND, 6 disk CD changer in the glovebox and 3.5mm AUX in jack in the glovebox.
Here's a lot of questions :-)
How do I get it to play DVD's? (it says No Video)
Same for TV
Above but on the move
A later Map?
TMC?
Does it need an...
I went to GT battle @ Rockingham yesterday - although my car has been nicked just before the major events we still had a great time.
Some of you will remember Adam from the Brunters track day and he did really well. I spent some evenings last week getting his car ready and lending him a few...
Hi All,
Just thought I would let you know - Bend and I are heading back to the ring again, but we're doing it on the cheap and thought that some of you may be interested. A friend is coming all the way from Australia to do a couple of laps with us. :-)
We're going with Ryanair from...
Just to give us a rough idea of how many cars to expect, please would you post in this thread if you are planning to attend the Summer GTG.
Please use the original thread started by Jimmy to discuss anything else about the GTG. ---> Click Here
We will then edit this post on a regular...
Who's up for a GTG in Germany? (june)
Last years event was MASSIVE and Nick even won a trophy!!! :D
more info: http://www.mercedestreffen.info/event2003.html
so far
Shude
Mer190E
MBenzNL
MikeC200
Myself
Surf Blau
Fudger
Maff
doriant
GRAV888
GrahamC230K
We leave on...