V8 lpg running costs?

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at the moment im running round in a nice disco 300tdi, i dont do that many miles in it just work and back which is about 18 miles aday, i've just been offered a late model (soft dash) range rover classic very cheap and very nice, hes a good friend of my mates so i know the car is a good one, he just wants to get shut to clear some room on drive (orders of the wife!!), the range rover is a V8 with lpg my question is, even running on lpg will i get close to the mpg of my disco, i drive like a girl and get about 30mpg at the moment, working on the price of lpg at the moment being about half price of diesel, would it be realistic to say i'd get about 15mpg on lpg?
 
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I would asume so, I'm getting 17mpg out of my V8 Auto on petrol which of course isn't a Rangie but allowing for the 10% reduction in calorific value of LPG that would equate to 30.6mpg (cost) equivalent for my vehicle on LPG.
 
that sounds ok, i think the best way to put it is, will range rover travel as far on £20 of lpg as my disco on £20 of diesel?
 
at the moment im running round in a nice disco 300tdi, i dont do that many miles in it just work and back which is about 18 miles aday, i've just been offered a late model (soft dash) range rover classic very cheap and very nice, hes a good friend of my mates so i know the car is a good one, he just wants to get shut to clear some room on drive (orders of the wife!!), the range rover is a V8 with lpg my question is, even running on lpg will i get close to the mpg of my disco, i drive like a girl and get about 30mpg at the moment, working on the price of lpg at the moment being about half price of diesel, would it be realistic to say i'd get about 15mpg on lpg?

I would asume so, I'm getting 17mpg out of my V8 Auto on petrol which of course isn't a Rangie but allowing for the 10% reduction in calorific value of LPG that would equate to 30.6mpg (cost) equivalent for my vehicle on LPG.

that sounds ok, i think the best way to put it is, will range rover travel as far on £20 of lpg as my disco on £20 of diesel?

I reckon (in the words of Simon Cowell) you got three yesses :p
Go for it, V8s got their quirks just like doozils have but why not enjoy the lovely NOISE they make??!!

BoB - Doozil? You aint going all PC and liberal minded on us now are ya?
We rely on you for carefully structured and well thought out abusive answers, wot next??!!
 
no it wont get you 30mpg cos you will enjoy the noise so much you will keep your right foot firmly planted and stop driving like a girl..

if you carry on driving like a girl you might get equivalent of 30mpg though.. and it does depend if it's single point or multipoint..
 
no it wont get you 30mpg cos you will enjoy the noise so much you will keep your right foot firmly planted and stop driving like a girl..

if you carry on driving like a girl you might get equivalent of 30mpg though.. and it does depend if it's single point or multipoint..

Are you saying that I drive like a girl ....................








































Oh, :rolleyes: :doh: :D
 
Running 3.9's on single point, open loop gas for about three years.....
Gas has got more expensive....... but Diesel has got a LOT more expensive!

I'm VERY happy with gas; I get around 20ish out of my Rangies, depending on use, driving, distance and tyres.
Better on AT's than muds by about 2mpg.
Better on a long run on the motorway by about 4mpg.
Keep it under 60 on duel carriageways & M-Way, and you can better 25mpg on AT's!
Purely 'round town' maybe 17-18ish....
Really thrash it, perhaps down to 15-16mpg.
Really thrash it on muds, IN the mud...... you can get down to 13 or worse..... but you REALLY have to be trying to get figures that bad (worth every penny though!)

But one thing working against me is that I do a lot of short 'hops' like less than a mile or so, & have to use FPF (Full Price fuel) as the engine isn't hot enough to switch to gas before I park up!

You do have to chuck a bit of unleaded at them from time to time anyway, as they start on it. I reckon on about £15's worth every three or four LPG fills, which usually takes me around 300 miles a fill.

At last weeks prices, about £40's worth of LPG..... average out, LPG + Unleaded, and over a mixed bag of driving, with my frequent 'hops', and I get something in the order of £17 per 100 miles.

Do the same for a 30mpg Deseasel, and you get roughly £16 per hundred miles..... there's not a lot in it, especially if you dont do huge mileages, and if you ae doing 'decent' commuter miles so you can run more on LPG you will better my figures, which are 'concervative'...........

.....unless you decide to run muds, and cant restrain yourself from letting that motor howl!
 
conservative.. 20mpg.... mine wont even do that on petrol... even the cloud cuckoo land of official figures hardly tries to pretend it's that high .. dunno if the rangie is better than the discovery..
 
conservative.. 20mpg.... mine wont even do that on petrol...
Trigger, if you are going to paraphrase something I have said, please don't infer something I HAVEN'T said.....
I did NOT say, that 20mpg was 'concervative'.... I said that I got 'around' 20mpg, and then qualified by how much and in what circumstances.

What I said was 'concervative' was my comparison of gas running cost to derv running cost, which put the two within a penny a mile of each other....... that is NOT saying 20mph is 'concervative'........ nor departing into 'cloud cuckoo land'.....
.....even the cloud cuckoo land of official figures hardly tries to pretend it's that high .. dunno if the rangie is better than the discovery..

From LRO Buyers Guide:-

Range Rover
3.5 Carb: 135bhp @ 4,750 rpm; 205 lb-ft @ 3,000 rpm; 15mpg top speed 91mph
3.5 EFi: 165bhp @ 4,750 rpm; 207 lb-ft @ 3,200 rpm; 17mpg top speed 101mph
3.9 EFi: 181bhp @ 4,750 rpm; 231 lb-ft @ 3,100 rpm; 15mpg top speed 110mph
200 TDi: 111bhp @ 4,000 rpm; 195 lb-ft @ 1,800 rpm; 23mpg top speed 97mph
300 TDi: 111bhp @ 4,000 rpm; 195 lb-ft @ 1,800 rpm; 23mpg top speed 97mph

Discovery
3.5 EFi: 144bhp @ 5,000 rpm; 192 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm; 14-20mpg top speed 95mph
3.9 EFi: 182bhp @ 4,750 rpm; 231 lb-ft @ 3,100 rpm; 13-27mpg top speed 106mph
200 TDi: 111bhp @ 4,000 rpm; 195 lb-ft @ 1,800 rpm; 23-32mpg top speed 92mph
300 TDi: 111bhp @ 4,000 rpm; 195 lb-ft @ 1,800 rpm; 23-33mpg top speed 92mph

Range Rover - P38
3.9 EFi: 190bhp @ 4,750 rpm; 236 lb-ft @ 3,000 rpm; 12-22mpg top speed 116mph

They only give one figure for the classics, where they give a range for the Disco & P38, and where they have used the same engines in the Disco, look like they have taken the lower one....

As I said, it's 'ish' and the figures can vary hugely; range on 3.9 Disco covers pretty much the entire range I've suggested I've seen from my classics, and as 'stock' the Disco has a bigger body and wider tyres...... which is sort of supported by the fact that the Rangie, with the same engines as the Disco, and the same power and gearing etc can clock an extra mph or to on top wack.

But it doesn't make a heck of a of difference either which way. Depends on what tyres you have, how, where and when you drive etc etc etc.

I am a bit of a 'tender-foot' in the 3.9, mainly becouse I am constantly conciouse of the fact that driving down the road at 60mph I'm chucking a kiddies drinks bottle full of jiuce down the things neck every minute!

I can almost SEE that fuel in my minds eye, dripping into the engine, like watching a leaking tap!

But I'm also an 'old fasioned' driver, with a very predictive driving style; I'm very light on the brakes and throttle, and steering, even though I drive Auto's,

I had an XR2, for five years, longest I've ever had a car, and the car I've cranked up most miles in. It was my Aunt's before me, she passed it on with 40K on the clock and all the bills she'd had for it. I did 80K in it during the time I had it. When I finally scrapped it, I looked at all the reciepts I had, as I'd kept them all too.

When I first got it, I had it completely serviced, and amongst the works done, it had a new set of brake pads on the front and two new tyres. I never changed the brake pads again, nor the rear tyres which were the ones it was wearing when I collected it. Fronts got changed once, at about 95K, astounding the tyre dealership who reckoned that most 'lads' barely got 12k out of them. The clutch 'went' at about 80K; and when pulled was the original item, and I'd worn the friction material paper thin. It had gone right down to the rivets, where they normally go 'pop', and beyond... I'd been so 'slight' matching the revs on changes, I'd never loaded it enough to break the friction material off them.... it had just got thinner and thinner and thinner, until there was virtually nothing left!

And that was a motor I didn't pussy foot about in..... still something of a 'legend' that I took the thing airborne off the Cock & Bear bridge in Nuneaton, just for fun...... with a police-woman in the back! (when I was young and foolish!)

Anyway, MPG figures I've got for my Rangies have been challenged many times; and yes, they probably AREN'T typical, but they are achieveable.

Bottom line is that diesel is around 105p/l LPG around 60p/l depending on local pricing. Not 'quite' the 'half price' often quoted, these days more like 40% cheaper, and you still need to factor in some unleaded for warm-up; but even so.

If you get towards top end of the 'quoted' MPG range for a Disco on Derv, you can expect to achieve towards the top end for a Rangie on Gas, (which in the lack of, we can presume wont be far off that provided for the 3.9 Disco) and the break-even will be around 18mpg on LPG..... And that I'd say is emminantly 'do-able.
 
Hi.

Had a 200tdi, 300tdi auto (both of which were fabulous), 2 normal Classics, a P38 4.0 lpg and have now gone back to a RR Classic soft dash as i don't want all the troubles and irritations from a P38. I am just about to convert it to lpg as diesels (for me) have the most irritating sound and smell and most weirdly i get pins and needles when ever i drive any kind of diesel in my heels from the vibration. It does work out roughly a couple of MPG less on gas but because of the cost and bigger service intervals etc it is just as eco as a diesel.

Cheers Nick.
 
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