to LPG or not, that is the question

I have too V8s, one is very rusty and have a very sick engine but it also has an LPG kit which works and was new a year ago and has only done 5000.

The other car is good, has a nice engine that is water happy. I have always intended to swop the LPG kit over, any one got any opinions on LPG.

A lot cheaper to run than petrol. I had my last car (Renault clio) converted and I did save a lot on fuel bills.

Much depends on the availability of the lpg. Not much point here as takes a 60 mile round trip just to fill up!

Beneagles said:

Much depends on the availability of the lpg. Not much point here as takes a 60 mile round trip just to fill up!

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Exactly why I don't have it, if I lived near to a source I wouldn't hesitate to use lpg & id have load of v8's instead
of old oil burners lol

I had LPG on my Kia sorrento. It was cheaper to run than petrol but it isn't as good as many claim. The BP garage near to me stopped selling LPG so I had to drive about 8 miles to the nearest place. The system had to be serviced every year which cost about £120 and the nearest place that could do it was a 80 mile round trip. It didn't do as many miles per litre as it did on petrol, I reckon it did about 15mpg on LPG and about 22 on petrol. For some reason the lambda sensors wouldn't work with LPG and so the engine management light was always on. The LPG tank only held 75 litres and so the range was about 250 miles or less. Eventually I didn't have it serviced and it started running rough so I reverted to petrol. Even though petrol was more expensive the aggro of finding LPG garages and spending ten minutes filling up rather than about 2 minutes for petrol prevented me from continuing with the LPG.

Col

The Calor Gas depot near where I worked was the cheapest source, but lots of garages have it around here. I am surprised that we would have anything here that the rest of the country doesn't. I was always the only car there so didn't have to wait like I do on busy forecourts.

I had an app on my phone that showed where all the LPG garages were but it was always out of date. I would come off a motorway, follow the route for a few miles only to find the indicated garage had closed down.

Col

I've had a 2¼ ,that's right 2¼, petrol 90 for 19 years and it has ran on LPG for nearly all that time. Last month I got 19 mpg on a run to the north east, which at current petrol/lpg prices difference, equated to nearly 40mpg. I'd heartily recommend it, providing, as others say, you can actually get hold of the stuff easily. Even if you only pass an LPG station occasionally its still cheaper to run than a petrol only vehicle, so you may as well fit the kit as its costing you nothing.

I'm a fan of LPG... but here we have it in almost all the gas stations, too few which dont have it

Thank you all for your responses, some very helpful points. I know my area is ok for log at the moment but it's interesting to hear that it's not always available elsewhere.
I also live 15 away from RPI engines who do conversions and sell log.

As it's a virtual brand new and free system, it is worth fitting I think as I can always swop back ina few years if lpg gets harder to source. I think I'm keeping my disco for the long hauk as I like it more than modern stuff and its more than halfway to being mot and tax exempt!

Or maybe I should fit my kit to my BMW 525 instead as that does far more miles????

I hate spelling correction on phones!!!

The Countrywide network is the best option as once you have a smart key you can fill up any time you're passing one whatever the time of day.

My general feeling is late model V8 engines don't fare as well on gas - you'll still get the inevitable block/liner issues on petrol but some considerable mileage later.

Rangie Disco Sportsman said:

The Countrywide network is the best option as once you have a smart key you can fill up any time you're passing one whatever the time of day.

My general feeling is late model V8 engines don't fare as well on gas - you'll still get the inevitable block/liner issues on petrol but some considerable mileage later.

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Bit more info on the country wide network key scheme please