Lpg Conversions - Anyone Tried?

[FireFrog]

Dear all,

I have yet to buy my RAV4, although the time is drawing near - I'm going to see one as soon as the weather permits (which may of course be March, by which point, the urgency will be less, but you never know...)

I saw someone advertising a conversion to LPG and wondered if it was worth it, what the cost/benefit analysis was and how much hassle it is to find fuel. There are two pumps within 10 miles radius of here, and one is at a garage I use regularly, but I'd hate to have to plan an entire trip round the possibility of finding fuel.

Thoughts, anyone?

thanks

Ff

[Davrav]

There was some discussion of this a while back:LINK and LINK

Two main concerns - you are unlikely to save any Nelsons and Kingo's point about Toyota warranty specifically excluding LPG conversions.

[bothwell_buyer]

been there twice

once with a Jaguar and once with a Renault

My advice...... ?

Forget it unless you intend doing 50k miles a year. So much hassle when things go wrong and they do.

[FireFrog]

been there twice

once with a Jaguar and once with a Renault

My advice...... ?

Forget it unless you intend doing 50k miles a year. So much hassle when things go wrong and they do.

OK: 50K miles a year is way beyond my average (closer to 15k) so we'll leave it at that.

so now only decision is between diesel and unleaded, and I guess that comes down to price fluctuations that we can't predict...

tx, all

m

[bothwell_buyer]

been there twice

once with a Jaguar and once with a Renault

My advice...... ?

Forget it unless you intend doing 50k miles a year. So much hassle when things go wrong and they do.

OK: 50K miles a year is way beyond my average (closer to 15k) so we'll leave it at that.

so now only decision is between diesel and unleaded, and I guess that comes down to price fluctuations that we can't predict...

tx, all

m

Have a look at the percentage of posts on this section and you'll see, on a rough count, that the majority are about problems with diesels (steps back to await the furore of the 5 door-dieselly-owning brigade )

[atkiman]

my 52 plate 126k miles nrg petrol still returns 32/34 mpg , and has only ever let me down with a broken exhaust pipe, if thats any help.

[Jan&tone]

Didnt vauxhall do a factory fitted option on cavaliers some time ago? I suspect a factory option would be more reliable than a retrofit, and warrantied as well???

[MarsKy]

Diesel version costs more than the petrol.

Diesel fuel costs more than petrol.

Diesel mpg is better than petrol mpg.

Diesel seems to be more prone to problems (or diesel owners complain more on the forum).

So you need to do the sums to see what mileage you would need to do, to make the diesel more cost effective than the petrol.

I would still have went form my T180 diesel though, as torque, power and mpg are relatively great.