Goodbye 940 :(

[SteveP]

Originally Posted by 360beast

I have looked in to the way diesel is being banned now and have decided the plan is as follows.

Get the Fabia in the road and use it
Sell the 360 project
KEEP the 940 where the 360 is
Hopefully rent a unit close enough to my house that I can walk or use the 940 again and sell the Fabia.

I was driving the 940 today with the heated seats on, needed to overtake someone and it was effortless and still quiet and I just know I will miss it too much. The other thing that swayed me was the fact the 940 has more air bags and probably a much stronger shell if I were to have an unfortunate accident and it isn't a dirty diesel haha.

Sell the 360 project? Nooo! The diesel issues are only really going to be a problem in the short term if you regularly drive into city centres, if so then it's probably a no go.

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.

[827Roverman]

Originally Posted by 360beast

thanks laney

it is increasingly looking like the sensible option here.

Dave has sent me an email regarding the lpg which i am yet to have time to sit down properly and go through (i will certainly do it though dave and thank you for taking the time to write it for me).

I will hopefully be able to do the installation myself and then get it certified so i'm hoping a bank loan won't come in to it! Worst case is it does then nationwide do a very attractive one.

hi luke, sent you a pm, david

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by SteveP

Sell the 360 project? Nooo! The diesel issues are only really going to be a problem in the short term if you regularly drive into city centres, if so then it's probably a no go.

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.

The diesel problems are going to get worse for diesel owners, the price of diesel is going to go up, as will the VED on diesel cars. Buying a disel car now is a false economy, you'll pay in the long run. Back in the 80s, the government were advised against selling diesel as a "green" fuel because it's not - the exhaust from diesels is heavily carcinogenic, a fact i've known since about 1982/3 when i was still at school.

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!