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[flyer 0712]

Hi and welcome 

[Lazydocker]

Pm LD. He'll sort you out I suspect.

I can sort the details for a DIY kit, but not fully fitted Whatever you do, don't be tempted by a cheap, fitted in a day company in Wales

[i260]

... so how does fitting it yourself affect your insurance??

I was under the impression that insurers now require sight of some sort of certificate from the installation to show it was done by a 'competant' person. Will insurance be more expensive if you do this yourself or will they just decline??

I am also interested in going lpg and have three different companies within 5 miles of me here in south wales.

[feeutfo]

Thats the old system....Any LPG install must be certified, by a registered uklpg installer. You'll need a safety certificate. Can cost anything up to £150 potentially.

Once passed your car reg will be entered onto a web site data base. Rather farcical, but you only get a receipt in effect. The insurer is expected to go to the web site and look up your reg as proof of certification. ...yeah, I know.

[TheBoy]

Thats the old system....Any LPG install must be certified, by a registered uklpg installer. You'll need a safety certificate.

Thats not necessarily correct. The industry body tries to make out it is a legal requirement, but its not.

However, its advisable to do, a) to get an 'expert' (ie, someone who makes a pigs ear doing professional installs) to cast an eye over it; b) gives insurance one less route to wriggle out of.


To OP, my insurance just states it must be fitted by a competent person, and on the MV6, there was no increase in premium. The Elite increased by around a tenner.  Incidentally, both mine are on the UKLPG register.

[albitz]

Aviva didnt even ask about certification etc.I filled in the relevant section in the online application to state the car is fitted with LPG and they insured me.Seemples.
Hastings Direct on the other hand (who I was with for years) wont insure LPG,d cars under any circumstances.

[feeutfo]

Sorry yes, as TB says. It's not required, it's not law. But you knw what insurers are like.

Process with insurance is flakey at best on average, IME.

Dual fuel cars aren't popular enough for call centre jobsworths to know what's required. They often have no idea, and you'll have to tell them what's "required" yourself.

[Steve B]

can a 2.2 have lpg

[feeutfo]

Yep. Tunnie and others have duel fuelled theirs.

[Steve B]

who are others. i think i want lpg. looks like mega saving

[albitz]

Bear in mind that the car will give less mpg on LPG (10-15%) than on petrol,so savings may not be quite as high as they appear at first glance. Do plenty of research before jumping in.
Lpg prices in this area havent risen recently (yet) but petrol has,so LPG is looking a little more worthwhile than it did a while ago.Not sure how long the price differential will remain at current level though.

[feeutfo]

I wouldn't say mega.

It's about a third cheaper. But only after install costs.


...also depends where your nearest LPG station is.

[stevepugh]

I've long considered an LPG conversion as like many of you, we all like big engined powerful cars, but don't like tip-toeing round in them. (Kinda defeats the object...) so LPG might be the answer.  But I didn't know that it affected your insurance at all? Or that some won't even insure it.   This is odd.
I used to have a Nitrous bottle in the back of my carlton, and you could argue that this is more dangerous than LPG but never had an issue insuring that.  (Mind you, it was a high premium regardless, so I think it probably didn't affect it that much anyway..)

[Entwood]

LPG ...

no difference at all to my Insurance

£10 a year less road tax (WOW)

38% savings on fuel costs over 40,000 miles

no difference in performance whatsoever

Whats not to say LPG to ..

[feeutfo]

Just to add, there is no increase in premium, and don't buy any if that sur charge for paperwork nonsense either.