LPG - Worth it?
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From what ive read, consumption on LPG is a little worse, but its half price.
As for not being allowed on the channel tunnel, I dont care as i always take the ferry anyway
I assume for £550 the kit is a single point closed loop (no lambda sensor and only 1 entry either under the carp or on the air intake)?
You also have the added bonus of knowing you'll never fail an MOT on emissions assuming you present the car running on LPG.
I guess so. Id be buying the kit from here: http://www.lpg-kits.com/volvo.htm
No damage indeed but you are wrong.
You can start the car on LPG, we had to for a year or so as the fuel pump in the corolla broke and we couldn't be arsed to fix it. But you're not supposed to indeed, when the pump was working again the car started on petrol...
The only disadvantage we know of the car starting on LPG was that it was terrible to get it started at some days ( colder/freezing days iirc), eg it took a minute of spinning the engine till it started. But it is possible to start it without any petrol/ borked petrol pump at all.
Which engine do you have?
2.3i K-jetronic ---- non lambda engine
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I bought my mondeo with it already done, the install was a 2500 quid pro job and you can really tell, i dont see any performance Drop, you can start mine on LPG cus it wont let the lpg take over untill the car has reached running temp.
its nice when it only costs 16 quid to fill it and do 200+ miles, in a V6 mondeo
its true about the oil, mines still looks new as if the oil had just been done.
its nice when it only costs 16 quid to fill it and do 200+ miles, in a V6 mondeo
its true about the oil, mines still looks new as if the oil had just been done.
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I have recently got an E34 540i running on gas. Costing me the same to run as a 1.9TDi Audi A4 was. IT isn't as quick on gas, certainly from standstill but that is more the autobox and ECU etc getting confused by the whole 286 brake not being there on tap and thus it tries not to stall. I reckon it loses about 15% of it's power on gas. 5 secs on petrol and back on gas sorts that tbh.
I have a 60l tank. It's too small really, but hey ho, I am running a 540i that does the petrol equivilent of 40ish mpg as it is the multipoint unit and suffers very little drop in economy. Best of all, when you want to give it beans, press the magic button and all the horsies return, and you're off.
Add in that petrol has risen by 20p/litre here recently, LPG has gone up...err...2p.
I have a 60l tank. It's too small really, but hey ho, I am running a 540i that does the petrol equivilent of 40ish mpg as it is the multipoint unit and suffers very little drop in economy. Best of all, when you want to give it beans, press the magic button and all the horsies return, and you're off.
Add in that petrol has risen by 20p/litre here recently, LPG has gone up...err...2p.
Why?
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Depends on the quality of the conversion and car you start with.
It could well be tuned to have more power, but the good ones aim for no noticeable difference.
From what ive read on various forums and web pages, normally there is no noticeable difference, but my car isnt a rocket ship to start with, so i doubt id notice any difference.
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Hope this helps
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Basically, duty ISN'T going to fly up like the doom mongers insist and even if it does, duty on petrol/diesel will have increase by the same, all bar the shouting.
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Basically, duty ISN'T going to fly up like the doom mongers insist and even if it does, duty on petrol/diesel will have increase by the same, all bar the shouting.