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fezzy192:
i get 12-14 m.p.g and thats driving with a light foot most times lol

discomummy:
Hi,

i averaged about 14 mpg, but to enable me to afford to run the disco, i bought pugsley.

sonar is now just a toy to be taken out when i feel like it, altho i really miss not driving it daily, but as someone else said £80 every 300 miles gets a bit pricy (pugsley does 600 for £55)

sonar being a DII 4litre V8 and proud of it.

i have now decided that i will not lpg sonar as i no longer drive around sufficiently to warrant it

regards

ela

Range Rover Red:
I've sneaked over from the dark side (Range Rover territory), but I hope my two pennorth is not totally unappreciated.

Until February this year I had a 1990 RR 3.9 V8.  On petrol, it averaged around 16 mpg no matter what it was doing, and I had a job on keeping my speed down when towing the caravan - I think if I had let it, then it would quite happily have done the ton down the M5 with the BWSOW on the back!

It had a multipoint LPG conversion (RRB can tell you more - he sorted it out for me) and averaged 12 mpg, towing or otherwise.  I could not tell the difference between gas and petrol when I was driving it, and RRB reckoned if anything it was slightly more powerful on LPG.

I now have a 1994 RR 300TDi.  On holiday in Wales this summer it averaged 22 mpg towing the BWSOW and 30 solo.  It has just had a new head, water pump, injectors etc. so I will need to get the calculator out again soon.  Okay, it's not quite as quick as the V8, but is that a bad thing when towing?  Personally, I don't think so.  It will comfortably (shall we say) keep up with the traffic on the motorway (HWTHSBO and I don't exactly hang about) and it is not embarrasingly slow.

I did go out laning on one occasion in the V8 round Derbyshire and had a job on to keep up with Tim M in his diesel!  He and the V8-powered RRB were dots on the horizon.

I do miss the V8 burble, but if I need a 'fix' I can always get in touch with RRB in the next village.  Heart says the V8, and with the LPG kit the two cost about the same to run, but head is beginning to say diesel.  In Wales this summer, with the 300TDi, we covered over 300 miles.  We filled up twice - on arrival and the day before coming home.  In Somerset last summer, we covered maybe 500 miles in the V8 and were filling up every day :shock: - luckily that time the nearest LPG point was round the corner.

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