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Dec 9th, 2010, 22:37 | #11 |
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Thanks Andy.
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Dec 10th, 2010, 07:40 | #12 |
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Try living where I live then
LPG = 2.18TL Petrol = 3.95TL 97RON = 4.10TL Diesel = 3.15TL The exchange rate is about 2.25TL-£1 so LPG is nearly £1 a litre and decent petrol is approaching £2/litre! |
Dec 10th, 2010, 08:53 | #13 |
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That's terrible!
I went to Turkey on holiday this year and was amazed at the price of fuel compared to the average wage. I assume TL does stand for Turkish Lira. |
Dec 13th, 2010, 16:22 | #14 |
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Prices still going up!
Shell at Fenstanton just gone up another 2p to 75.9! Morrisons charging 70.9, even Flogas are charging 67.0 and say they've been told to expect increases any time soon. Anyone else experiencing big increases outside Cambridgeshire? |
Dec 13th, 2010, 16:36 | #15 |
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Just for comparison, over here in France LPG is around 0.65 euros / litre (@0.55£). In Belgium it is MUCH cheaper.
Also in France we can buy Ethanol (E85). I pay around 0.75€ per litre and the conversion cost me less than 100€, diy.
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I remember getting 4.4million turkish lira to the pound! those were the days...
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Dec 17th, 2010, 16:19 | #17 |
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Typical! Just found some reasonably priced fuel but the pump wouldn't work in the cold weather. Took 10 minutes to get less than 2 litres of fuel before it gave up altogether.
Is this a common problem? |
Dec 17th, 2010, 18:45 | #18 |
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Chilly bits
Yep, LPG pumps do seem to slow down in very cold weather, although I've never known one that wouldn't deliver at all, unless there was another problem of course.
I've found that it pays not to be the first LPG fill up of the day - the gas can take an age to reach the filler, and that sometimes, simply un-coupling and then reconnecting the filler can solve the problem. LPG is a mixture of propane and butane, and each behaves differently in different ambient temperatures, so it might have something to do with the mix of gases at that particular site. As I understand it propane will become gaseous at much lower temperatures than will butane, and that butane will not 'gas' much below freezing. Then again, I think that pressure will have a lot to do with it too. I guess a camping stove expert is needed here! cheers Jack |
Dec 17th, 2010, 20:01 | #19 |
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In the UK LPG is pure propane. In the rest of europe Autogas is normaly a mix of propane and butane with upto 50% butane content.
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Dec 18th, 2010, 11:30 | #20 | |
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Does this mean that a UK LPG car needs to be set up differently for use overseas? The one time I took my V70 to France I filled up a couple of times over there, and apart from needing an adaptor, there were no issues at all. Although come to think of, it did start misfiring on the way home, but I put that down to to tired plug leads because the problem went away when I fitted a new set.......but of course it could equally well have been the fact that I then filled up again with UK LPG/propane. The whys and wherefores of this would be very interesting! Cheers Jack Last edited by capt jack; Dec 18th, 2010 at 11:35. |
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