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Nov 4th, 2022, 17:07 | #51 | |
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Going back a few years (4 or 5 i think) the govt said LPG would continue to be available for at least 10 years - that still means the 10 years expires before 2030 annoyingly! Why do govts do this???? A clean (by comparison) fuel and they don't encourage people to use it, instead forcing people to buy new cars (we can't all afford brand new cars) that are electric that will be just another passing fad like diseasel was, noww the health problems are coming into the public domain.
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Nov 18th, 2022, 17:46 | #52 |
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My LPG'd V70 was the best car I ever owned. It did over 250,000 miles for me on LPG, and because I used it for work and could claim at 45p per mile, over the 9 years I owned the car it actually made me a profit - even taking into account the purchase price!
I had thought about getting my current 1997 S90 converted, but couldn't find anyone to do it. Apparently more modern cars are too risky to convert because the quality of the cylinder head castings isn't up to the hammering from LPG, the complexities of modern computer-driven cars is a problem, and converters are reluctant to take a risk on the subsequent claims. Even though from a technical perspective my car would happily run on LPG the installers I approached advised against it as being unviable. The £3000 cost would have been way more than the car is worth, and would have taken too long for me to recoup. This means that LPG is dying, which is daft because it's greener and cleaner, and could definitely extend the service life of older petrol cars that are otherwise perfectly usable, just a bit polluting. And as has been said, upgrading an old petrol car is actually way better for the planet than buying a new electric car, but no-one seems to listen to common sense any more! Jack |
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Nov 18th, 2022, 20:21 | #53 | |
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It seems Morrisons will be discontinuing LPG from their forecourts (currently ~80p/L across most of the country) but my nearest LPG supplier is ~100p/L and only 12 miles away instead of 30+miles for the nearest Morrisons. I totally agree it's the next best thing to zero emissions at point of use and as a by-product of petrol and diseasel production, is saving more "waste" gases being disposed off however they see fit. Perhaps consider a secondhand kit, install yourself and get a local reputable LPG installer to set it up/certificate it and enter the car on the DVLA/LPG Register?
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Nov 18th, 2022, 20:28 | #54 |
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" but no-one seems to listen to common sense any more!"
Agreed. What's worse is the fact that the "Electric" car saga, seems now to be a Dictatorship with the government not interested in listening to anybody or anything, however well researched it is, that does not conform to their pre conceived ways. |
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