[woodman]

Is anyone running an LPG van ?

With diesel going through the roof and this goverment raking it in on the tax it thieves from us twice at the pumps (bit political ) I have been making enquiries on obtaining an LPG van or at least a convertion.

I wondered if anyone is running one and if you are how are you getting on with it.

[Singrey]

Trevor,

I had a LPG pick-up truck. Fuel cost once all things factored in were around the 50% cheaper than un-leaded. I trust you’re aware of the loss in pure grunt, don’t expect to be overtaking anything uphill!

I’m pretty sure you cant convert a diesel LPG needs a spark!

[paul@scc]

No u cannot convert a diesel to lpg as far as i know but u can have it set up to run recycled vegtable oil and such there are a few companies doing this now and all you have to do is go down the local chippy and tell them youll dispose of there fat for free

might smell like a chippy on a saturday night but at 5p a litre to run who cares

[ianharper]

hi,

had a grand cherokee on LPG and found it great

Bye Ian Harper

[Glynn]

Yes you can do LPG on a diesel

http://www.ilovesponge.com/spongecars/diesel/diesel.htm

[pjulk]

Used to drive an LPG transit great van
Used to start up on petrol and automatically switch over to LPG.
If i was running low on gas we could just press a button for petrol.
Never noticed any loss of power using LPG in fact the van went so well you would have thought you were using petrol all the time.

Paul

[Singrey]

Thanks Glynn, I stand corrected. The web page has certainly wetted my appetite; 30% savings with no detriment to performance. Would be interesting to hear from anyone who gets a conversion quotation from this company to see just how many miles one would need to drive in order to break even.

S

[Singrey]

Paul, my truck was the same, flick a switch to change from petrol to LPG and back again. I wasn’t as fortunate as you with regard to performance, when on LPG I lost huge amounts of acceleration and the high-end torque was non-existent. However having said that I totally resented having to switch from gas to petrol whenever I couldn’t find a LPG fill-up point!!

S

[CARPET KNIGHTS]

had my shogun converted to gas and nwow fuel bills are £25 a week as apposed to £75

[paul@scc]

good thing i think with gas is you can get a goverment grant for work vans and cars if its younger then 5 years and it can give tax relief dont quote me on that tho