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[rands100]

LPG is not an option unless there is somewhere else to put a tank apart from the boot?
I have a 3.9i Discovery that I have run in lpg since 1999 but I have two undersill tanks on that. Just need someting more economical but with lots of space. Wifes 2.0 picasso diesel is very roomy with rear seats taken and does 42mpg round town and 55-60 on a run. Maybe a passat or mondeo estate diesel might be worth looking at
Richard

[TheBoy]

LPG is not an option unless there is somewhere else to put a tank apart from the boot?
I have a 3.9i Discovery that I have run in lpg since 1999 but I have two undersill tanks on that. Just need someting more economical but with lots of space. Wifes 2.0 picasso diesel is very roomy with rear seats taken and does 42mpg round town and 55-60 on a run. Maybe a passat or mondeo estate diesel might be worth looking at
Richard

Don't know what the 2.2DTi gives? Newer engine, hopefully more economical than older beemer unit?  And being manual only will help.  The Omega's problem is weight though...

[Taxi_Driver]

LPG is not an option unless there is somewhere else to put a tank apart from the boot?
I have a 3.9i Discovery that I have run in lpg since 1999 but I have two undersill tanks on that. Just need someting more economical but with lots of space. Wifes 2.0 picasso diesel is very roomy with rear seats taken and does 42mpg round town and 55-60 on a run. Maybe a passat or mondeo estate diesel might be worth looking at
Richard

Get an estate and shove the tank under the boot floor.....ive got a 55L (holds 38L) and have lost about 2 inches (boot floor raised up to get tank in)  

Ok bit of a pain having to keep filling it everyday.....but then i do quite a few miles a day.

[osealy]

LPGbbbbbbbbbbbbbb is not an option unless there is somewhere else to put a tank apart from the boot?


put it on the roof like a wartime gas balloon.

I've done 300k  in diesel est's . only expense is oil & filters. One I retired due to no hot start prob. But it started on first turn after sitting 18 months when I sold it.

No not as economical as an Audi 100 but replacing doorhandles, steering pumps,headlights,cylinder heads,& many CV joints I'm happy.

I had a Fiat 130coupe on gas & I Couldn't live wiyh the time it took to fill the tank. Also it seemmed MUCH quicker on petrol. 19mpg vs 15mpg.

If you buy ready converted good but don't spend your money on doing it.
My 2c.

[TheBoy]

LPGbbbbbbbbbbbbbb is not an option unless there is somewhere else to put a tank apart from the boot?


put it on the roof like a wartime gas balloon.

I've done 300k  in diesel est's . only expense is oil & filters. One I retired due to no hot start prob. But it started on first turn after sitting 18 months when I sold it.

No not as economical as an Audi 100 but replacing doorhandles, steering pumps,headlights,cylinder heads,& many CV joints I'm happy.

I had a Fiat 130coupe on gas & I Couldn't live wiyh the time it took to fill the tank. Also it seemmed MUCH quicker on petrol. 19mpg vs 15mpg.

If you buy ready converted good but don't spend your money on doing it.
My 2c.

Thats a valid point with the 2.5TD - the service interval is 5k MAX, and it takes a lot of oil (about 6.5l), and the filter is £8 (later) or £12 (earlier) + VAT

[osealy]

Sorry never answered the origional question.

Early car no MAF 34mpg
Later with MAF much smoother & 36mpg.
I do 25K per annum.

When my 1st td got no hot start prob I bought two Volvo autos, 850 2.5, 960 2.5. Best mpg 26 worst 15.
I quickly bought another omega td est.

Also td does not need cambelts. But as has been mentioned if ANYTHING goes wrong with the engine or HP pump you can give up.

[Kevin Wood]

Oh, I'm sure there are ways Wink - I'm sure recalling at the time that adding the dye to diesel wouldn't work either...

Quite apart from the kit you need to get the stuff into your tank! We have a kit to do this at the gliding club as the winches have Chevy 502 V8s powered by LPG. The filling kit consists of a compound about the size of my back garden with two huge LPG tanks, piping, transfer pumps, isolators, fire extinguishers, etc. I'm sure it could be done on a slightly smaller scale, but it wouldn't exactly be covert.

.. and someone would get suspicious that your central heating appears to be slightly inefficient if you were running a V6 Omega on it too! All it would take is an extra tier on tax on heating LPG at a little above a reasonable level for a central heating system to use. No need for dyes.

I must admit I considered LPG when I bought my last car 7 years ago and, with hindsight, had I converted it I would have been quids in, but I didn't believe then that the tax would remain favourable so I didn't invest. No one seems to have confidence to invest in anything that's at the mercy of the treasury at the moment..

Kevin

[Omegatoy]

  strongly recommend the diesel get a manual and chip it brilliant car then, agree its a pain to keep changing the oil every 3000 which is when i do mine, but it only takes 15mins to do then change fuel filter and airfilter once a year and thats it!!!
  hi guys !!! im  back on the interweb at last!!! only on laptop tho so loads of typos !!