Freelander and Lpg

My man has just bought a Range Rover that is on Lpg.

I have always admired the Freelander - has anyone had experience of a Freelander on Lpg - if so where was the gas tank fitted? Thanks

the 1.8 and the v6 2.5 engines are a pile of crap. lpg would see em off even quicker. bad bad bad idea. save the money to pay the rac renewal

I've converted several, and actually they take to it fine.

Tank locates under boot floor, chop off storage box and panel flat, 40ltr tank hangs underneath, make new exhaust - bit sporty sounding though!

Make sure it's a good sequential system, an old single point system will backfire and blow your manifold in 2! (on the 1.8)

Rob

My 1.8 runs on LPG, and like Robgeev says the tank is under the rear floor so you don't loose any load space.
Performance wise the accepted wisdom is you loose a bit off the top( but if you drive a freelander like a racer you are in the wrong car)
Bimbling around the B roads and lanes I get around 30mpg but at 66p a litre its better than petrol
Oh and we are now on 80,000 trouble free miles

Many have had them converted to lpg. For for the money to convert my v6 to lpg, against buying a td4 diesel in the first place, I'd go for the diesel if I were you. Reliability and mpg is betterer. Value of the car is betterer on resale later on too. td4 will be lower on tax too. A good lpg fitted system shouldn't give you any problems, but there's less to go wrong on a td4 when compared to a petrol/lpg car.

I second Hippo's advice about getting a TD4 instead. The TD4 can do 0-60 in 12 seconds which is very similar to your average saloon car. Sure, it's not fast but it's by no means bad. It has almost the same amount of torque as a Disco 300TDI, so you could say it has quite a lot of pulling power for a 2.0 diesel. If you want it much faster, then you should probably think twice about getting a Land Rover, or any 4x4 for that matter. Having a fast 4x4 is almost like having a fast tractor. Sure it's possible and it has been done but one could be forgiven for saying it's a silly idea.

If you want to convert a petrol to LPG, you should do it on a strong engine. The 1.8 is renowned to be a weak engine in terms of reliability. All you'd be doing is increasing the risk of catastrophic failure. Sure, there will be some who have troublefree motoring, but there will be many in the opposite position!