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Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: janaage on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 13:53:27 Thinking about having mine done, fed up of paying 120p + a litre.
Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: BANGKOK RED on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 14:03:34 Taxis out here have to use them, they can change from Petrol in the tank to LPG in a cannister in the boot at a flick of a switch.
Dirt cheap as well apparently. Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: JPC82 on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 14:07:18 think its bout 56p isnt it? bout £600 to have it done though
Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: Bushey Boy on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 14:26:54 Typical scot!
Jpkes aside, on wootoon bassett road oposite teh carphone warehoue next to DFS is a car advertising it Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: STFC_Manc on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 15:55:53 think it costs £1,500 or so, depending on the car. Around 52p a litre.
But you only get 30 mpg on LPG, so its not as cheap as you think! Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: JPC82 on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 15:58:40 Quote from: "STFC_Manc" think it costs £1,500 or so, depending on the car. Around 52p a litre. But you only get 30 mpg on LPG, so its not as cheap as you think! :shock: my uncle paid bout £600 Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 16:54:22 My brother in law had his converted and it cost him £2,200, the cheapest I have seen so far is around £1,500 for a 4 cylinder.
The MPG goes up a bit with it average say 30mpg where as with petrol it would do 36-37mpg but the cost more than outweighs that, performance on gas goes down a little too but no more than 10%. The only negative is that the engine has to warm up on petrol for the first 3 miles of a trip before you can switch to LPG so if you only do less than 3 miles a trip to work then its no use but if you regularly driver longer then it is well worth it, you can make your money back on an average conversion cost inside about a year and a half apparently. Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: janaage on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 17:19:58 Quote from: "jjedmunds" The only negative is that the engine has to warm up on petrol for the first 3 miles of a trip before you can switch to LPG so if you only do less than 3 miles a trip to work then its no use but if you regularly driver longer then it is well worth it, you can make your money back on an average conversion cost inside about a year and a half apparently. Really??? Bloody hell that's a massive draw back for me to be fair, as we live in Ash Brake and work in Swindon central. we go to Cornwall quite a nbit but not really that much to make a difference. Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: Bob's Orange on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 17:53:00 I'm driving over to the UK next week and I am not looking forward to paying £1.20 per litre as I only pay 1 Euro 20 for my petrol in Lux.
My car only does about 25 miles to the gallon so my trip could end up costing me quite a lot in petrol! Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: SwindonTartanArmy on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 22:29:06 Quote from: "Bob's Orange" I'm driving over to the UK next week and I am not looking forward to paying £1.20 per litre as I only pay 1 Euro 20 for my petrol in Lux. Get a boot full of massive military style jerry cans :mrgreen:My car only does about 25 miles to the gallon so my trip could end up costing me quite a lot in petrol! Title: LPG - Anyone had their car converted? Post by: Simon Pieman on Sunday, May 25, 2008, 23:32:15 You could always look into getting a bike to save the pennies
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