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diesel or petrol
Russell:
i was thinking about lpg. Where is best to get the kits from?
:cool:
dxmedia:
Have a look at tinsleytech (think that's how it's spelt), or ebay for a cheap one. Single point is fine for the 4.0
Range Rover Red:
Is there a place that sells LPG close to home? My V8, the late Tarquin, used to do about 12 mpg on LPG, 16 on petrol, and when I took him to work I had to fill up every week. Luckily there is an LPG garage at the bottom of the village - he used to do 168 miles to a tank of LPG or 148 if I was towing, meaning that long journeys had to be planned very carefully. If you have to do a 30 mile round trip just to fill up with gas, is it really worth it? When we took Tarquin to Somerset a couple of years ago we had to fill him up EVERY DAY! Luckily we found a place round the corner that sold gas. When we took the diesel to Wales the following year, we had to fill up twice - once when we arrived and again the day before we came home, having spent ten days exploring Mid Wales. She averages just over 20 mpg towing, nearly 30 solo.
Tarquin was fitted with a multi-point LPG system (Range Rover Blues sorted it all out for me - I don't have any more detail than that, sorry) and seemed if anything to be even more powerful on gas than petrol. He used to climb a 1 in 4 in low box just ticking over - I didn't have to touch the loud pedal once he was moving. Penelope, the 300TDi, doesn't go marching off anything like the same way - even in low box on the relatively flat, I have to tickle the throttle to keep her moving. I don't go laning any more, I have her for towing the caravan and she is more than capable.
Swings and roundabouts. V8 = the sound it makes, the power, the FUN! Diesel = being able to fill up in every garage, but not every five minutes.
Head says diesel, heart says V8.
jay2578:
diesel!.......... what was the question? :grin:
alaric:
I used to get 22-26 mpg from my 2.8 LWB Diesel Pajero - then again I get the same from the V6 Petrol Land Cruiser, so long as I don't floor it too often....
Of course when I do floor it a lot more happens than with the old Paj! :twisted:
Alaric.
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