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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Entwood on 30 March 2012, 13:03:26
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Having filled with LPG at the new price of 76.09 p/litre, I also entered the spreadsheet with the local petrol price of 145.9 p/litre .. and was somewhat gobsmacked ...
The "savings per mile" figure has jumped to 14 p/mile ... from around 10 p/mile.
A check of the numbers shows that in the last 6 weeks LPG has risen from 73.92 to 76.09 .. a rise of 2.94 %
Petrol in the same period has gone from 134.9 to 145.9 .. a rise of 8.2 % !!!!!
makes me even more pleased I'm running LPG ... more savings and no queues !!! :) :)
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
It's a thought ....
Petrol at 145.9 p/litre * 4.54 = £6.62.386 / gall
At 76.09 p/litre, £6.62.386 buys 8.7053 litres LPG or 1.917 galls LPG.
Driving solo I average 21 mpg on LPG (I'm not known for hanging about ..... )
21 X 1.917 = 40.257
So I'm getting the equivalent of 40 mpg from a 3.2 litre luxobarge ... not many oilburners are doing that :)
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And that is why I used the profits from my last job to instal lpg on my shed last year :y
Good job my maths is better then my spelling ;D ;D
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
It's a thought ....
Petrol at 145.9 p/litre * 4.54 = £6.62.386 / gall
At 76.09 p/litre, £6.62.386 buys 8.7053 litres LPG or 1.917 galls LPG.
Driving solo I average 21 mpg on LPG (I'm not known for hanging about ..... )
21 X 1.917 = 40.257
So I'm getting the equivalent of 40 mpg from a 3.2 litre luxobarge ... not many oilburners are doing that :)
With the 2.2, I could near 55mpg equivalent. Quite a cost difference to now getting 27mpg from the 3.2.
Luckily I don't do the miles anymore and only fill up about once a month
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
It's a thought ....
Petrol at 145.9 p/litre * 4.54 = £6.62.386 / gall
At 76.09 p/litre, £6.62.386 buys 8.7053 litres LPG or 1.917 galls LPG.
Driving solo I average 21 mpg on LPG (I'm not known for hanging about ..... )
21 X 1.917 = 40.257
So I'm getting the equivalent of 40 mpg from a 3.2 litre luxobarge ... not many oilburners are doing that :)
With the 2.2, I could near 55mpg equivalent. Quite a cost difference to now getting 27mpg from the 3.2.
Luckily I don't do the miles anymore and only fill up about once a month
With that milage payback would be pretty slow, ???
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All the more reason to convert sooner rather than later ;) ;)
On the topic of LPG... There are a few members waiting for me to supply details for the supplier. Please bear with me as I'm finding it hard to get the time to do much at the moment. I'll try to do it over the weekend now that I have managed to make contact with him :y Amazingly, the kit price may well be going down a little as he has managed to get a bigger discount from some of his suppliers which he will pass on to us :y
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Such a shame you can only fit a dinky little tank in the back of the Estate (without raising the boot floor, which I don't want to do) :(
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Such a shame you can only fit a dinky little tank in the back of the Estate (without raising the boot floor, which I don't want to do) :(
Do you really need the full height? I've got a 76L tank in mine (with a 3.5" raise in the floor) which gives the same range as you get from the tank in the saloons :y
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Such a shame you can only fit a dinky little tank in the back of the Estate (without raising the boot floor, which I don't want to do) :(
Do you really need the full height? I've got a 76L tank in mine (with a 3.5" raise in the floor) which gives the same range as you get from the tank in the saloons :y
To be fair, rarely.. but a 3.5" lift is a lot - occasionally I have things in the back that I struggle to lift up to the height of the tail as it is.. (like the cement mixer I need to take back tomorrow) The extra height might be the difference between getting it in and not, so to speak :(
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the cost off fitting how long does it take to get that back,say i was doing 12000 a year
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the cost off fitting how long does it take to get that back,say i was doing 12000 a year
Depends on cost of fitting, if you DIY for £700. Costs can be recouped in under 10,000 miles.
If you pay someone going rate around £2k, going to take you a couple of years.
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
It's a thought ....
Petrol at 145.9 p/litre * 4.54 = £6.62.386 / gall
At 76.09 p/litre, £6.62.386 buys 8.7053 litres LPG or 1.917 galls LPG.
Driving solo I average 21 mpg on LPG (I'm not known for hanging about ..... )
21 X 1.917 = 40.257
So I'm getting the equivalent of 40 mpg from a 3.2 litre luxobarge ... not many oilburners are doing that :)
Great news. BUT contrary to what you say, many modern oil burning luxobarges do 40mpg, and more. But, they are 10 or more years newer.
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the cost off fitting how long does it take to get that back,say i was doing 12000 a year
Depends on cost of fitting, if you DIY for £700. Costs can be recouped in under 10,000 miles.
If you pay someone going rate around £2k, going to take you a couple of years.
Interesting, particularly if the new kit / supplier makes it easier by using existing injectors?
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the cost off fitting how long does it take to get that back,say i was doing 12000 a year
Depends on cost of fitting, if you DIY for £700. Costs can be recouped in under 10,000 miles.
If you pay someone going rate around £2k, going to take you a couple of years.
Interesting, particularly if the new kit / supplier makes it easier by using existing injectors?
Can't be done AFAIK ... additional gas nozzles are added beside the petrol ones ... gives the option of runing on either fuel .. there is great expertise within OOF on fitting the injectors ... and probably obtainable for the price of a few pints .. :)
There is a whole section in the maintainance guides on fitting LPG .. this is just the bit about the nozzles ..
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90630.0
HTH
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Maybe I should switch back to running the 2.2 :D
It's a thought ....
Petrol at 145.9 p/litre * 4.54 = £6.62.386 / gall
At 76.09 p/litre, £6.62.386 buys 8.7053 litres LPG or 1.917 galls LPG.
Driving solo I average 21 mpg on LPG (I'm not known for hanging about ..... )
21 X 1.917 = 40.257
So I'm getting the equivalent of 40 mpg from a 3.2 litre luxobarge ... not many oilburners are doing that :)
Great news. BUT contrary to what you say, many modern oil burning luxobarges do 40mpg, and more. But, they are 10 or more years newer.
Agree with you, my temporary runabout is a skoda superb 1.9TD .....and these are big heavy cars, nearly as big as an omega.....i get 40 mpg out of it just running constantly about town.....it goes upto 50mpg when i take it on a run......and its 5 years old with 240k on the clock ;)
Altho i suspect if it was the 2.5td auto superb it would do less to the gallon....
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Cheapest LPG around here is 79.9p (Towcester), locally 82.9p :(
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Cheapest LPG around here is 79.9p (Towcester), locally 82.9p :(
You're not THAT far from Banbury .. and countrywide has an outlet there
Banbury
Banbury Trailer/Towing Centre
Thorpe Way
Banbury
Oxon
OX16 4SP
24 Hours/7 days a week
http://www.countrywidefarmers.co.uk/pws/Content.ice?page=EnergyAutoGasRefuellingOutlets&pgForward=businesscontentfull
Have you thought about an account with them ?? Presently I'm paying 76.09 p/litre
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Cheapest LPG around here is 79.9p (Towcester), locally 82.9p :(
You're not THAT far from Banbury .. and countrywide has an outlet there
Banbury
Banbury Trailer/Towing Centre
Thorpe Way
Banbury
Oxon
OX16 4SP
24 Hours/7 days a week
http://www.countrywidefarmers.co.uk/pws/Content.ice?page=EnergyAutoGasRefuellingOutlets&pgForward=businesscontentfull
Have you thought about an account with them ?? Presently I'm paying 76.08 p/litre
Yeah, I know where it is.
I don't normally venture into the land of the inbreds, and its about 44m round trip.
I guess for the sake of a fiver, or whatever it is, I should sign up, as there is no other LPG at all out that way.
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If only it was that cheap round these parts Entwood. That country wide scheme, or what ever it's called, doesn't stretch much past Swindon. Forecourt price ranges from 81p to 83.9p these days. Although the later has a loyalty card giving an average of 5p a litre off. Thier forcourt price was 84.9p at one point. Bloody cheack.
Must admit I am quietly smug with LPG fitted currently. A range of up to £500+ miles "IF" needed.
Those figures don't quite add up as favourably here though. Still, could be worse. :y
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Best not tell you lot i'm only paying 74.9p round here then :-X :-X :-X
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Last week, in Somerset, I was filling up almost daily at 72.9p...
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Cardiff is cheap as well ... its all down to competition ... in Cardiff over 15 outlets .. including 2 supermarkets .... in Swindon just 3 .. one of which is account only .... oh for a supermarket to sell the stuff .. :(
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What are people paying in Lincoln at the moment ?
I know people where paying 86 pence a litre during last summer.
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There's an Asda near enough to me. If only they'd put gas in there.
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What are people paying in Lincoln at the moment ?
I know people where paying 86 pence a litre during last summer.
ouch !! I paid 80.9 in Kinloss last October .. but Morrisons in Glasgow was only 66.9 at the time .. down here it was then 73.92 ... big differences :(
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What are people paying in Lincoln at the moment ?
I know people where paying 86 pence a litre during last summer.
ouch !! I paid 80.9 in Kinloss last October .. but Morrisons in Glasgow was only 66.9 at the time .. down here it was then 73.92 ... big differences :(
Popped in to get a tyre off mutantcav on the way home from skegness last summer.
I was paying 64.9 at home at the time.
Aparently only 3 garages selling lpg round there at the time.
Sounds like they must have got there heads together and .............. >:(
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The variances are crazy..
The only LPG station within 5 miles of me is a BP at 82.9p - the only other option within 10 miles is a Total 9 miles away at 77.9p; that's 5p/L difference.
Near work there are more options, 11 in fact, with a range of 6p - 76.9p (coincidentally a Total, right by work) and 81.9p (another BP)..
Petrol, on the other hand, varies at most 2p/L - between Sainsbury and Shell, and it's usually 1p.
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There's an Asda near enough to me. If only they'd put gas in there.
Yeah, one of the biggest Asda's is near work. No kiosks, so will never get LPG there :(