Had me absolutely cracking up with the Fake Taxi stuff, the blurred face was gold 😂 😂😂

They're so knowledgeable about the features they found in this one missing from the taxis they have recently seen and how drivers interact with passengers. Sounds like they had done a lot of very specialist taxi research.

Love how you guys first did a lot of research on where to best mount the cameras in the taxi. There sure are a lot of helpfull videos out there that have the same setup as yours. Good job 👏🏼

"What would you do with that money that you'd save?" "Buy some diesel" Modern problems require modern solutions

Seems like Alex and jack are well knowledge to the taxi game 😂

The fake taxi referencess. Had me laughing hard😂😂😭

A few years back I ran an old Polo SDI on a 50:50 mix of diesel : veg oil. It wasn't great on straight diesel, so best to mix it. And regular fuel filter changes required. Bought the oil in bulk from the likes of Costco or like local Asian food places often did decently priced bulk, 20L drums. I think at one point I was £15 for a 20L drum, so 75p per litre. It was roughly a 45L tank in that car, so 20L of veg oil, then top up with 20L diesel. So £51 to fill the motor with 40L of the mix (assuming £15 drum and £1.80 per litre for diesel). Used to get around 400 miles per tank so that's around 12p per mile (or £6.37 for your 50 mile journey). Cheap motoring that. I was commuting around 100 miles a day at that point, so it was worth it for me. I used an old 2L "pop" bottle as my funnel. Cut off half of the "bottom" of the bottle and used it as the funnel. Was tricky starting off the 20L drum, but wasn't too messy.

The knocking sound in old Volvos usually comes from the OAP locked in the boot.

If you guys moded this by removing weight, you could have an eco-friendly track day car. If you made it into a public event with "Chippies", you could use the waste oil from their operations selling "chips" to your spectators/fans/subscribers, and then race for free. Possibly even profit. I really like where this is going.

It’s a good job you do entertainment and comedy based car content as no one could ever take serious car advice from someone who bought an X5

For my American friends who are wondering how the price of fuel translates from pounds/l to dollars/gal, the price shown at 0:15 works out to $8.83 per gallon. You, my UK friends, have the absolute short end of the stick when it comes to fuel prices and I'll never complain about what I pay at the pump ever again.

Honestly the taxi comments made this video. I have actual tears of laughter. For me this is hands down the best and funniest video you’ve ever done. Absolute gold 😂😂😂

These style of videos are literally my favourite thing to watch on KZfaq

17:18 " What would you do with the money that you saved?" -"Buy some diesel." 🤣🤣

This is genuinely the most useful car show on or off TV. Good work lads

Add a litre of green 2 stroke oil to a full tank, it will stop the oil clogging filters etc. Plus keep a spare fuel filter with you.

Anyone else want too see them mod the hell out off this 😂

Alex said TX4 and my immediate thought was "Those are common rail and they get terrible fuel mileage" but they made it worse by buying a ticking timebomb transit engined TX2 lol

I used to work for lti as a technician and we had loads of problems with the Ford engine especially timing chains, cams pulling out the heads, fuel pump solenoids, fead belts being noisy due to tensioner failure but when running properly they drove really well.

Absolutely loving the comedy!! This channel is so much better than any other commercial car content

Chip shop stool fella told me today that oil has doubled from £24 to £50 for 20 litres. Can’t even do this lol💔

I have seen this style of taxi before, but it was rigged with camera's.🤔

You know you’re a man of culture when laugh at their jokes for straight 5mins Are you gonna pick up passengers at the Fake Hub?

"This is how you win against government tax" Until the government drive up the price of cooking oil through tax to match the price of diesel, again. 🙄

Great video, would be interesting to see a budget LPG conversion with a race or see how long you could go on one tank

Alex is so short his legs didn’t completely reach the seat when he put his feets up 😂😂

I used to drive a Silver TX1 SE for Saint Dunstans Charity for the war blind now called Blind Veterans UK. It had the Nissan 2.7 litre fuel injection diesel engine. It's a 8 gallon tank and I used to get 15mpg on a good day or 9 mpg in the city. Back seats fold,and there's a ramp in the back for wheelchair users. The back doors open a full 90° max speed 97 mph. You can take the divider out and fit a seat in the front, Best change the tyres for a better ride.

Great job, mates! You've set your minds on getting it cheap, worked the elbow grease, plowed thru the pile-on of shady bangers, and it seems like your efforts been paid off with a load of spare liquid! Well done, you surely know, how to beat the pump. Some fancy cafe at the end, btw, they even got the lasershow for customers! I kept seeing red beams, waving all over your heads, the entire conclusion time..

You can also use old engine oil from any oil changes/ or and mix with oil. btw did you not think the motor started to stink like a graesy spoon? I used to run a old pd 100 seat Ibiza 1998 plate on these, just had to do a more regular fuel filter change.

Love the fake taxi rodeo absolutely class 😂 should’ve done a video in the taxi on how the whole government fucked us in such very little time 😂

Had an old 1999 S-reg Shitron berlingo (DW8 1.9 engine) that I ran on 100% used restaurant cooking oil for about 5 years. Didn't even need a 5 micron filter either, just ran it through a boggo standard coffee filter and put it straight in the tank. I think I did approximately 60,000 miles on used oil before I sold it to another veg burner about 5 years ago and I still sometimes see it on the road now.

Funniest Car Throttle yet, Fake taxi banter, PMSL at you lot, Ace! 😂

Great choice on Sunflower Oil. The biggest supplier is a really quiet place called... Ukraine I think? Doubt there'll be any issues with supply.

This is by far your best video yet…sat hear laughing my head off 😉 great work and great content as usual 👏👏👏

This might be the funniest video from Car Throttle, laughing so much at all the Fake Taxi chat 🤣

Completely agree with Alex on the old Peugeots. I have a 205, C15 van, and ancient LDV all with diesel Peugeot engines.

16:59 a good challenge could be something along the lines of what’s the best B-Road Blaster for x amount of money

Had me rolling on the floor laughing at the "other" taxi comments!!!

Great vid, did you notice the "tax man" by the mini watching you when you were filling the tank in the Asda carpark with your "tax free fuel" LOL

That’s a cool episode. I was always curious about those. I’d like to see you guys improve it. Not by scrapping or painting black and putting yellow sticker, but fixing breaks and steering. Headlamps looks dimmed too. If not rusted bolts Ethan should be able to do some work on simple technology. Good detail can turn it around.

How are there still cars in the UK that are less than 1000? That feels impossible right now

We need a follow up to this of either 1 month effects on the engine or just thrashing it after some weight reduction/"performance mods"

Man I missed those vids, keep em coming. A fun fact to know is that the original diesel engine was designed to ryn on veg oil and technically diesel engines can still run on veg oil, that is cheap and it also acts as a lubricant. Altough it has advantages it shouldnt be used for an extented period of time because after a while microorganisms are going to start being created and and then there is something like mud that is being formed from them that can block the pump, or the becks. Another fact is that the diesel that everyone is using right now contains 2% ,or maybe a bit more, biodiesel which is produced from fried ( or used in any way veg oil) and the goal is for that percentage to keep increasing in the coming years

12:25 😂😂😂 It didn’t even phase me when it showed a big blurred face then I realised oh that’s not normal

Superb hilarious video once again and loved all the Fake Taxi references!👌🙈🤣

I love how innocent Ethan is, his stupidity makes me chuckle😂

Here's a tip for waste oil. Get 10inch water filters. Three in a row and use the cheap paper filter. 0.5 Micron final step. The finer the better. 0.2 clogged too quickly but 0.5 was good. The filter housing uses standard fittings and get a pump to pump the good stuff. Works like a charm

A colleague of mine has a 1982 Mercedes (w124) 300d estate with a professional twin tank conversion. He starts the car on diesel, once warm, he flicks a switch and swaps to veg oil. He buys it in bulk and pays about 80p a litre. The car runs sweet as a nut

The FakeTaxi stuff is the funniest! 8:30 🤣🤣

Absolutely golden this episode. Haven’t laughed like this in ages. All the best guys.

Great video boys Love the content keep it up 👍🏼…as a car trader Iv got a few cars to pick but I’m running about in a 107

Old peugeot diesels are brilliant, there was an old 309 1.8 that had 750,000 miles on it (taxi car). Only major things that went wrong were the clutch and the head gasket.

Oi tell you something I absolutely love you lads, sound geezers just pissing around having fun with 4 wheels. You don't take yourselves too serious either, keep it that way! Doing a great job boys 👍

How tf do you buy a taxi by accident 😂

I am absolutely howling at the in-taxi scene. Absolute gold

You guys just keep succeeding. Incredible stuff!

The vw group 1.9 tdi is a great fuel efficient diesel

I think you guys should keep running the taxi on veg oil and see how that holds up for the long run. Ofc saving money on veg oil rather diesel would efficiently work for the long run if there aren't much repairing to do for the engine later lol.

‘Fake taxi on full throttle, 3 wise men battle the pumps’. Can we just appreciate the work that’s gone into that mk2 rs at the pub 👏

4:30 yes they do. You can clearly hear it. Yes they run on everything. Even ran old engine oil at 100% in my Mondeo with that engine and it worked fine and started just like on Diesel

Brilliant video boys. Always hilarious but informative 👍

"If there's a payment problem, or the card payment doesn't work, there's always means and way" 😂😂😂

The puns were top class lads 😂 the blurred face had me dead 💀

Been running my Peugeot 405 td on a mix of diesel and veg. Runs a treat

I bought my first car 3 months ago at the age of 37 and picked a 325i. Super unleaded was £101 for a full tank.

You should’ve bought a saab, they are super cheap and have a large top gear, they can do over 30+ mpg US, and they come with Diesel engines that can do even better

Got my mk 1 Skoda Fabia VRS which I have had since new: 50 mpg plus on a run means pain is not too bad though Diesel is 11p more than petrol in my area.

In the past (discovery 1) I ran pure veg oil, i got it from Takeaway Cash and carry for £22 for 25 litres. The Bosch VE pumps are the daddy!!

I was sure it would be a Lupo Diesel at first, until I saw the prices of them now. 😂

Used to run my old Citroen ZX diesel on veggie oil - every third fill was diesel, but I really was saving money. Course, what you've not mentioned is how your car then smells like a chip shop, for those who are in traffic behind you 😊

Hi guys, brilliant video as always. I was wandering how you got insurance for a taxi as that seems to be rather difficult as it cannot be classed as a car or van. Also with it not being used for business, I can’t seem to find anywhere that does normal commuting insurance. Would also be interested in how much that would cost?

Love the reference 🤣 love the focus rs in the background, love the video, on point as always 💪

We need a part 2 to see if it’s still running!!!

FakeTaxi I’m dead😂

Mk2 1.6 Diesel (Tdci/Tddi) Ford Focus 2008, has been good as Gold so far... Runs Me about £60pw. Will get some Drums and Filter Screens for a 'Top Up'... Pals a few Years ago where running 60pc Diesel, 40pc Cooking Oil and a dollop of Lighter Fluid where doing well....

I’m smart myself I just bought a 1994 Ford F-150 4x4 5.0 5 speed! I have 2 tanks with a total capacity of over 168 liters! Yay Mercia!!!

I live in Germany, I haven't seen vegetable oil in the shops for weeks :-D

Love the video and love that old Taxi! I drive a 1.9 TDI and what I am thinking of doing is the little setup to convert Veg oil to Biodiesel.

quality episode lads, hope to see you with your own tv show one day looking forward to the next video cheers for the laughs

I’m actually thankful I just got what I did. 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring, because Canada. Going from a Jeep Grand Cherokee with the L6 to a 5 speed 4 banger was huge. $20 can get me 3 days of driving to and from work instead of just one day in the Jeep.

Thinking we would miss the fake taxi quote haha

And now sunflower oil is all out worldwide and selling for €10 a liter online😂

the banter was off the charts :)

You should do the next episode with this on the round track you do stuff at and compare the engine capabilties with diesel vs veg oil!

You should get one off them blue lights to see how bad it really is inside 🤣🤣

*Thank goodness some of big retailers started taking a stand against the crazy price increases I imagine if it wasn't for that prices would be at £2 pounds something by now* 😐

8:50 "However it will swallow a lot of vegetable oil, whether it likes it or not" LOL

I live in France, in about October bought a kit of the internet for €150 to convert my petrol fiesta to e85, at the moment diesel and petrol are both €2 per litre, whereas today the E85 has fallen to €0.75. I loose about 10% range but get that back in performance feels a bit jumpier but does struggle on cold mornings.

That saxo from the nc500 trip will be decent on fuel 👍

The irony is you could be beating the current fuel prices if you filled a big tank with diesel when it was 99p a litre during the first lockdown!

2.4 ford transit engine in them most tx2s back then were converted to the 2.7 Nissan terrano engine they used in the fairway and the TX1

I've got 1.6 48v Kia Sportage thinks it's the sweet spot 50mpg regular does not cost loads to buy and run and very reliable.

You guys do know that vegetable oil will be getting extremely rare because a lot of it is made in the ukraine ans russia, so prices will skyrocket as well.

As soon as the fuel prices went past £1.55, i decided to buy 500litres from aldi. i just walked in and asked to order 510litres of sunflower oil. 3 days later I went and picked it up. been running 100% for the last month now. I did a KZfaq video but i'm no good at describing stuff.

+1 for the Arctic Monkeys ref!! I have been looking at buying one of these recently. A 3 grand one which much less miles and no rust.

"Do you want to come in the back?" - "Yeah that'll do it"🤣🤣

"has livery" John definitely selling his taxi 😂

Note: The TX4 doesn't have a Transit engine, the TX2 does. The TX4 has a 2.4 VM Motori engine.

If you start to use veg oil in a vehicle that has always used diesel change the fuel filter after the first tank full has gone through. This is because veg oil is thicker than diesel and picks up any crap in the tank. If there's a lot of crap at the first filter change you may need to change the filter again after another couple of tank fulls. You can thin veg oil out by using methylated spirit (but you must pay fuel duty and VAT on the meths) if you get any running issues due to thick veg oil

I once owned a TX2 Taxi & tried to drive it to Albania...Only problem being covid broke out half way through the trip