How To Beat The Crazy Fuel Prices

smokey hence price so no issues ethan it comes with a spare engine it's got issues this is how you win against government tax fuel prices around the world have skyrocketed in the uk for example you'll be expected to pay up to one pound 85 a liter which means it'll cost around 111 pounds to fill up a midsize saloon as for anyone stupid enough to have just bought a large suv dummies like this guy can kiss goodbye to 150 pounds to refuel oh god so in light of all of this doom and gloom we decided to set ourselves a challenge of beating the pumps and buying the cheapest most fuel-efficient car for 500 pounds we'll then take it on a road trip calculate our costs and work out if buying the right car at the right price can help you beat the pumps too we want something lightweight old rear-wheel drive at least three seats something with an mot although with a with the prices of fuel there's got to be a little bit of give no mot but you're still paying one pound i caught it on the microwave they're kind of everything is on the motorway yeah i paid 1.93 the other day to fill up my brand new x5 slip that in i did slip it in you check it out on instagram old diesel i'm thinking an old peugeot we don't want to pay at the pumps we could do like a 50 50 mix of vegetable oil yes and diesel screw you government stuff like peugeot 205s the old diesels are going to be out 405's probably also going to be out they're too expensive now and we only want diesels we don't electric do we what was that every question that's a really stupid you got that electric car could you get for 500 pounds we just bought two for less than that yeah oh are they working do they have batteries no no they have no batteries we don't pds do we no we've done pd's we've done we've done so much pd did you say something like a year it can't be are you are you feeling all right yeah yeah yeah why do you not sound all right oh i was a big weekend you went to watch the ufc yeah i did you take part got punched in the throat that's why it sounds like yeah did you say oh my god did you say i can't even say it the older the better volvo s40 not needed any more not you less free euless is another very topical thing at the moment which we will come to at some point but not in this video but basically yule's ultra low emission zone covers london and then our mayor sadiq khan has decided that he wants to expand ulez to within the m25 which means that my new x5 three little diesel will have to go there's a knocking sound which has been there and i'll be honest with you it's a common problem in volvo's where's the knocking coming from the engine i'm pretty much at the 800 pound mark oh that's too much yeah it is too much that's a lot of negotiating oh thanks ugly did you catch a reflection oh wow a one pound 2021 bmw x5 i mean they do look like bricks but that maybe it's the color that's doing it i have an 04 civic is that too new probably not lend itself to veg oil it's 895 pounds we have a budget of 500. where's all the old french tat it's just all expensive now say obita 1.9 sport tdi 695 description it says 795 bargain no offers so he's already given himself an offer oh no 1992 cc well don't do that what what you're completely out what can i do you got the whole internet there's nothing further out of war detroit should i look on ebay facebook marketplace is just pure nonsense i can't look at it anymore they're trying to sell me trousers how about here we go a tx4 tx4 yep what is that in london taxi yeah this might be it actually i will close my laptop again 600 pounds we've always talked about this good running cab good engine drives well gearboxes delayed gear change occasionally maybe requires a service don't worry about it has livery good condition all round few minor marks ideal workhorse usual wear and tear 600 quid hold out your rounds look at that plate just 57. but it's blurred it out and i think these cabs run the old uh ford transit diesel engines so i have a feeling you can probably in it and it would probably run we could whistle him down from the side of the street busy night mate [Laughter] maybe he's busy hello wait i see that you've got a taxi for sale on gumtree oh okay but we know that they exist for 600 pounds yeah so get on ebay get on facebook you look for those taxis there you go oh hello ex london taxi not till may been sat for four months drive's okay the mot runs out in may so maybe he's thinking like right i just gotta shift this now this is an eyesore on my front garden yeah when did he put this up for sale three days ago in west drayton oh my god that's literally next door is it yeah ringing jack have you just one-timed it probably like you you can go out and up all the ads that you've put in one of mine is worth like 20 of yours the mot history on that taxi outputting isn't bad this is all brakes this is brake stuff what's considered old tap these days because in my head it's like a 1990 205 or 1991 like a j reg or something like that four row five have i got too old and has my sense of old tat just not moved with the times do you want to take this one yeah i think they answer it yourself fiat doblo 1.9 d smoky hence price spare engine and gearbox included if wanted what so no issues ethan it comes with a spare engine it's got issues as there's matey no i've messaged him we've got a big selection oh oh no he has oh brilliant how long was that how long ago that taxi ten minutes ago come on david yeah can you just tell me a little bit more about it what was it like overall so it's my girlfriend's granddad's taxi and he brought me up ebay sort of by accident to be honest it was up 895 and i dropped it to 795 this morning because i didn't have much interest in it okay to be honest with you i'm probably at a budget of about 500 pounds right let me speak to her granddad yeah and i'll give you a call all right sweet all right stay up should we go to west kebab oh shut up and just hold on that's my line should we go to west coast [Music] okay cool and did he say he was happy with 500. okay all right cool yeah send me the postcard yeah yeah yeah all right so 500 quid he's done the deal yeah very eager to sell there we go yeah i guess we just pulled out your app you've just bought yourself a taxi how many cars have we bought in west coast a lot it's just good luck as well it was as soon as we walked in and sat down my phone started well let's eat first and then go pick up a shagged taxi [Music] and here it is our lti tx2 that we picked up for 500 quid the reason that it's with us is because i picked it up a few days ago because he couldn't see us on the day that we wanted to so we're back at the farm ready for an adventure the stuff that's probably gone on in the back of that as well yeah and it's important to note as well this isn't obviously a real taxi anymore no no what would it be was a fake taxi anyway shall we have a quick look around our london taxi i know absolutely nothing about taxis probably not that good on fuel which for the video isn't that great however it will swallow a lot of vegetable oil whether it likes it or not i mean considering it's done 270 000 miles it's not actually in too bad nick is it no it's just a bit scabby oh that familiar taxi sound yeah very basic mechanical fuel pump proper basic engine and it does smell a wee bit hot you've also noticed i had to put a brand new battery on it yeah i saw that because it was completely knackered it's probably never even been serviced as well before it doesn't need servicing right probably not we've got here then not a lot actually by looks of it not a lot there's a lot of plastic no seat here everything has just been built to last the seat is quite hard but it's not actually too uncomfortable i like that you can probably like rock back on it as well yeah is he supposed to do that though is that broken i don't know considering you that a cabbie would spend all day in here i don't see a lot for the taxi driving themselves in there's not a lot of lights i don't want storage and tables they do other stuff as well they don't only drive they converse with you know with the with the general public as well especially like if if there's a payment problem or the the card payment doesn't work yeah there's always some ways there's a lot of buttons as well here is your intercom button so you can talk to people in the back if the intercom button doesn't work that's probably what i'm getting confused with that's when the driver will probably get in the back and have have that personal conversation it's unusual though because usually like recently when i've seen taxis they don't have this and the passenger likes to lean through this maybe there's been like some stuff in the glove box that the passenger just wanted to reach for and the driver's helping just bringing up the rear really um it's always useful it's quite a physical job isn't it it can be it looks really good yeah it really can be up here is where the meter would have gone that's a shame that's gone that would have been good that would have been cool i think that's enough chat up front should we go to the business end yeah yeah this is good this is really good then i got seat belt and everything the history with this yeah just imagine how many people have been inside here there is cigarette ash everywhere in this vehicle if you notice that it's a dusting like everywhere we have some hubcaps which are quite ranked there will be some a disability ramp is that right i don't know oh so it has two ramps with it maybe for the other side when i was doing some research as well the lady just tripped then i think the driver came round and helped her up but that that took a while yeah we've not done something right here have we no sorry i just just keep on remembering that video sorry to all the cab drivers out there we don't know what we're doing yeah should we move on it doesn't go it doesn't go in like that it doesn't check you're right being a cab driver is very difficult wait wait no we're back to where we started we'll speed all this up that's why cab drivers take so long when they're in the back there's a lot of cramming into other isn't there there really is [Laughter] it's good pointing [Music] where to love uh sorry sorry force of habit yeah just um just up the m40 please so what's what's with the face oh yeah sorry about that's that happens yeah strap on strap in oh right here we go right red light indicates doors are secured good luck oh hello hello hello oh i can hear you really oh i can hear you oh there we go there we go where's it coming out it's coming out speaker here this is so weird it's like you're sat on the steering wheel wow lmo hello mate what's it like to drive jack it depends if you're steering or not if you're steering it's fine if you're going in a straight line there's a dead spot where it just does absolutely nothing how much fuel have you got got about quarter of a tank just over because we are beating the pumps we're gonna go buy a whole bunch of oil and then we're gonna put that oil in the fuel tank so let's see how much our journey will cost us versus diesel and then we can recommend and you should do it too i have to say this is really quite weird being driven by jack in a taxi it suits him it does yeah jack is a proper taxi driver oh no wait it does switch him off now yeah it really does so again turn urina come on [Music] right so bought 30 liters of sunflower oil which works out roughly a pound of liter and we're in the asda car park making a wee bit of a mess but we will clean it all up they don't sell any decent funnels so i've made a makeshift funnel you fashioned one out of the plate don't film that there's evidence of us making the mess i think i got the good job here we're getting some proper strange looks i bet with the gopros in taxi as well i don't know what they assume is but then when they turn the corner and see us doing this they're like this is how you win against government tax yeah this is us shall we go and get some towels and clear this up and then we can be on our way with a taxi now full of vegetable oil it was time to take it on a little road trip right then yeah got these brakes i'm pulsating i can't hear what you're saying it's quite nice you're in the commonwealth drive would you please put my wind up a little bit it's just a little bit blowy drive yeah window uppy better sir yes not difficult is it he does the basic job of driving but there's no he doesn't go beyond that there's no finesse how's she running jack straight and true can we say that the veg oil works it's toasted it's far too soon oh wasn't it it was sputtering a bit there is it oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] one thing i've noticed when jack listens to the radio i can switch his radio off by pressing the intercom button yeah i'm sorry hello drive how are you how is the journey going yeah it's going great every time you turn that into cola we've had this discussion yeah do you want to listen to the rain i'm turning it off what's the fuel gauge saying is it saying oil just sat above the three-quarter mark so okay we've used a little bit of it now all right and it seems to be moving still so all good signs it is now impossible for this to fail brilliant [Music] oh this is not a b-road blaster is it it's not i think we're probably on a good mix of diesel and vegetable at the moment oh yeah for sure any difference in the way it drives it still drives like there we go perfect this has been an experiment well done it does yeah think of the money you'd be saving what would you do with that money that you'd save buy some diesel you could do like one year on one year off yeah i just wish there were more activities in the back yeah what can we do put our feet up yeah we can put your feet up your feet oh that's a good one stop sorry my foot slips is this is this all right here mate yeah no in and you go keep going to the plinth please drive which one does the plim where the the sand pit oh look oh god he's had to go forward again that's all it's because the the turning circle on this is totally it's not it's not tight enough thank you drive how much is that mate yeah oh we don't have i don't have any money you have anybody uh can we can we come to some arrangement i'll join you and we'll talk about it you want to come in the back excuse yeah that'll do it [Music] right then as you can see we have made it to caffeine machine where we're going to have a very nice dinner we have done 50 miles on vegetable oil and we have done some maths so you don't have to 50 miles using diesel at one pound 80 or thereabouts would have cost us 13 pounds 50. it's quite steep and that is that is with the taxi doing 30 mpg which i think is fair especially on the motorway but we didn't use diesel no because what did we do we beat the pumps our cost at one pound nine uh per liter is eight pounds 17 for the same journey very good that's really good so 8 pound 17 we paid 13 pounds 50 all you suckers have to pay go over the course of roughly a year so around two and a half thousand liters if you were to use diesel fill up with diesel at one pound 80 you would spend four and a half grand on diesel on veg oil though you would be spending 2 725 pounds wow that is a saving of one thousand yeah more than fifteen hundred pounds seventeen seven five seventeen seven five thank you we'll edit that so i said that there are tax implications if you go over two and a half thousand uh liters but i think for the purposes of this video we have beaten the pumps we set out with the task yeah and we've done it and you're doing that a lot recently yeah we just keep succeeding and also if you get veg oil from a fish and chip shop and if you strain it yourself to i think below five micro microns or something like that then you can really beat the pumps zero batter yeah exactly no chips don't go out and buy veggie oil and put it in your diesel chances are it won't like it has to be a really old diesel this is an old transit engine so make sure you do your research but for now should we go and have some lovely dinner yeah and then hope that this starts up again later when it's cold of course anyway from us thank you very much for watching we're gonna have some dinner uh subscribe here watch more videos over there also oh we've got new merch we do we've got some music i've got a staid on it but you do do they come with the stains no unfortunately not i can put them on there check out the link in the description there's more stuff in the shop cool yeah okay bye bye why are they still here

Channel: Car Throttle

Views: 699,180

Keywords: Car Throttle, CarThrottle, Alex Kersten, Cheap Car, Challenge, Old Diesel, Cheap Fuel, Veg Oil, Project Car, Taxi, Caffeine and Machine, Road Trip, How to

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Length: 20min 51sec (1251 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 01 2022