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700/900 Series General Forum for the Volvo 740, 760, 780, 940, 960 & S/V90 cars |
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Nov 11th, 2019, 10:33 | #31 | |
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Personally couldn't be bothered with the inconvenience of LPG, even though it can certainly work if your commute is lengthy enough and you have access to LPG at a station. Best of both worlds: Euro 3 S60 D5, remap it if it's not enough. You'd be able to pick one up for not much more than the cost of LPG kit and fitting. |
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Nov 11th, 2019, 12:25 | #32 | |
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If you have an LPG car, you'll find it's no more inconvenient than any other car, you add fuel, you drive, you refuel as needed. What's inconvenient? Nothing! There are loads of LPG stations around Coventry, mostly selling at about 53p/L at the moment, that's about £2.39/gallon roughly. Last diseasel price i know of was 129.9p/L (at my local Sainsburys) which is more than twice the price of LPG so you'd need to be getting more than twice the mpg just to break even. Yes, diseasels are more economical per gallon of fuel but the cost being that much higher than LPG it makes you wonder why more people haven't adopted LPG instead of diseasel. Also the main constituents (there are some more but in very small % and not as harmful as diesel exhausts) of an LPG exhaust is CO, water and oxygen. Because of this, it's perfectly legal to remove the cat during an LPG conversion (so no more poisonous H2S being pumped out into the atmosphere!) and the CO limit is raised to 3.5% - in practice most LPG fueled cars run best at whatever the manufacturers quote as the pre-cat CO level which is generally about 0.5-2.0% CO and let's not forget that plants, flowers, trees, bushes etc all need CO to breathe and give out oxygen as a result. We need oxygen to breathe and emit CO as a result - win-win! Also all that H2S that comes out of cats - it goes up into the atmosphere and becomes oxidised by water to give H2SO4 - your car battery is full of this and is better known as Sulphuric Acid. Getting rid of acid rain would be a huge bonus in my book!
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