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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 16:55:20 »
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edit  I have thought about the lpg route but find it hard to justify on a now 11 year old car,if I find a late 3.2 estate I may do it
I did it to a (then) 12yr old, 163k ::)

But then, I'm mad if you listen to GayBoy Gixer

actually its not so much the age,if it was a 3.0 or 3.2 I would do it ;)
yes, though with a 2.5, you should easily get away with a single hole tank, reducing cost by around £100....

I would need the spare wheel well tank though,need the estate load bay left unmolested :y

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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 16:22:00 »
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edit  I have thought about the lpg route but find it hard to justify on a now 11 year old car,if I find a late 3.2 estate I may do it
I did it to a (then) 12yr old, 163k ::)

But then, I'm mad if you listen to GayBoy Gixer

actually its not so much the age,if it was a 3.0 or 3.2 I would do it ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 13:43:37 »
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I am humming and harring about this ::) When I bought this Mig I intended to LPg it, having bought this giving up a more economical diesel :'(  More recently my idea to lpg it has come into question :-/ and most lately the idea of buying a sub£1k diesel for work and keeping the Mig for weekends is favourite....... :-/ :-/ :-/

thats the route I took,bought a cheap 406 hdi (lovely drive as well) and in the few months that I have owned it its paid for itself already,my mig does around 23mpg knocking around locally and the 406 is doing late 40's mpg(best I've seen is 51 :D)
How does a one off diy payment of say, £700 for a diy install, cover the cost of running two cars continually?  Or an extra car i should say, Insurance, tax, mot, repairs servicing,etc every year?

Insurance alone car for two years wouod pay the kit price? Surely?  :-?

 insurance is a non event for me as I have traders policy and the mig was getting killed doing parts pick ups for work etc with me in shitty overalls so pug works out nicely :y

edit  I have thought about the lpg route but find it hard to justify on a now 11 year old car,if I find a late 3.2 estate I may do it

Indeed, obviously length of ownership plays a part in the decission, obviously.  ::).   :y

I only bought the mig in the first place cause it was cheap and had only done 60k,it was never going to be a main car as the wifes 7 seater does most of the work

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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 13:31:33 »
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I am humming and harring about this ::) When I bought this Mig I intended to LPg it, having bought this giving up a more economical diesel :'(  More recently my idea to lpg it has come into question :-/ and most lately the idea of buying a sub£1k diesel for work and keeping the Mig for weekends is favourite....... :-/ :-/ :-/

thats the route I took,bought a cheap 406 hdi (lovely drive as well) and in the few months that I have owned it its paid for itself already,my mig does around 23mpg knocking around locally and the 406 is doing late 40's mpg(best I've seen is 51 :D)
How does a one off diy payment of say, £700 for a diy install, cover the cost of running two cars continually?  Or an extra car i should say, Insurance, tax, mot, repairs servicing,etc every year?

Insurance alone car for two years wouod pay the kit price? Surely?  :-?

 insurance is a non event for me as I have traders policy and the mig was getting killed doing parts pick ups for work etc with me in shitty overalls so pug works out nicely :y

edit  I have thought about the lpg route but find it hard to justify on a now 11 year old car,if I find a late 3.2 estate I may do it

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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 12:01:28 »
are you going to have to raise the boot floor to accomadate the tank cliff ?

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General Car Chat / Re: LPG Doesn't Pay for me Anymore
« on: 25 February 2011, 10:12:14 »
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I am humming and harring about this ::) When I bought this Mig I intended to LPg it, having bought this giving up a more economical diesel :'(  More recently my idea to lpg it has come into question :-/ and most lately the idea of buying a sub£1k diesel for work and keeping the Mig for weekends is favourite....... :-/ :-/ :-/

thats the route I took,bought a cheap 406 hdi (lovely drive as well) and in the few months that I have owned it its paid for itself already,my mig does around 23mpg knocking around locally and the 406 is doing late 40's mpg(best I've seen is 51 :D)

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General Car Chat / Re: I want one of these
« on: 24 February 2011, 19:42:44 »
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Jesus Wept, quite a bit bigger than a 5 series  :o

I read a test in auto express and they said it was mahoosive, they also reckoned that the hot diesel is the one to go for

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General Car Chat / Re: I want one of these
« on: 24 February 2011, 19:11:08 »
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the new one is a big car,I was suprised at how big

It's nigh on if not pretty much the same size as my 5 series.

just checked the specs,a fraction over 5 metres long and 1.9 metres wide :D

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General Car Chat / Re: I want one of these
« on: 24 February 2011, 19:04:40 »
the new one is a big car,I was suprised at how big

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General Car Chat / Re: Cheap & cheerful runabout?
« on: 22 February 2011, 10:14:00 »
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'87 Astra.....a classic?  :o

you're 'avin a giraffe mate  ;D ;D
Back up big boy i said not a classic yet...read the post! You can do a clutch for £50 in an hour on these, coz GM were good enough to fit inspection plates for us to take off, even i can manage.
   Still take it to any classic/VX show. When did you last see another? 8-)

you did - sorry  :y

it'll never be a classic, despite achieving old age -  had a 1.4L "H" reg - terrible car in whats known as lovely "corpse blue" - you know that flat blue colour VX insisted on ruining cars with in the 90's  ;D

wallowy, uncomfortable, underpowered, poorly put together - maybe i had one of the friday afternoon ones  :(


no, I think most afternoons were much the same :D

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General Car Chat / Re: have managed over 4500 Omega miles this year
« on: 18 February 2011, 19:03:20 »
Mine will probably do 5-6000 this year as it's not my daily driver

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lack of coolant capacity affected the freelander worse than  the 25/45's,I have done a lot more head gasket failures(oil/coolant mixed)on freelanders than  any other k engined cars

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General Car Chat / Re: Ball park figure please
« on: 20 February 2011, 21:29:56 »
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£140 max, this neck of the woods.

it seems to vary around the country,a mate weighed in a 1.2 corsa since christmas and that made £135

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General Car Chat / Re: Ball park figure please
« on: 20 February 2011, 18:59:36 »
I weighed in a rover 620 ti just before christmas,that made £190 :D

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General Car Chat / Re: Ball park figure please
« on: 20 February 2011, 17:57:20 »
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If the MOT has expired and assuming no tax... No more than £500... I'd start closer to £350 ;)

Is it generally in good nick or not? Leather/cloth etc?
Overall really tidy motor. 1 month left on MOT. No leather.
Been offered it for less

If youve been offered it for less and its clean body work then probably worth a punt Rob.

Chris.

if its less than £350 then you could weigh it in and get most of that back :y

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