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[hotel21]

My thoughs (always a BAAAAD thing when my wheels start to turn) is that an LPG section would be an advantage - BUT - would need to be a tech help type thing and not open a door for a seperate lpg chat room.  A fair proportion of the old stagers here have already been there, done that elsewhere, hence OOF...

Agree in principle, but would not want it to become a self supporting offshoot of what is already a very good community and thus detract from the whole.....

[feeutfo]

only a newy but i could not help thinking, during my search for info on lpg, that an lpg section may be helpfull.
 lpg is an adition to exhisting, so i do not think the petrol/diesel argument stands up, esp. as its of no use to diesel owners. You might argue that you can not fit a diesel conversion for example? i wonder whats the ratio of lpg/diesel owners,i would bet (only a pound mind)  more people own and more importantly, are looking into lpg, esp. with the current fuel problems.
 i have searched a phew topics and have not found my info, usually because (having eventually found it by trauling through)i was not accurate enough with term or phrase. So from the outside i would say good idea. I  came to this section to post exactly that, and found this thread.

Excellent feedback


Valid points (though you can run diesels with a proportion of gas ).  I would suspect more tractor owners than lpg, but thats not the point...

Before we will add a seperate section, we have to be certain that it of benefit to a significant number of members, else we would be adding small sections for everything, if that makes sense. [/color] And I don't think we're big enough to split up the community that much yet?

If the demand is there from a reasonable proportion of membership, then it will get added though - this is your site


Anyone else think a seperate section is warranted?

Yeah,see your point, Diesel ownres will be next up maybe. Anyway done my vote. anyone else, for or against?

[Marie]

For

reasons are that there would end up being lasts posts about the same thing as the already asked lpg questions will be in plan view and easy to get to.

i dont beleive it would split oof but be like the electrics section of the home page.

there is my pennys worth!

[Jay w]

poll added

[TheBoy]

Remember, the software we use does not allow sub boards, so cannot be its own section under Omega Help, it has to be its own board in its own right.

[Jay w]

ahh right.......

So the other alternative would be to have one huge LPG thread as a sticky, like the legal one

[TheBoy]

ahh right.......

So the other alternative would be to have one huge LPG thread as a sticky, like the legal one

Its either a new board, similar to ICE section, or a sticky thread somewhere.

[Entwood]

Just my thoughts ...

Looking at how much stuff the Mods have to move about to get into the "correct" section at the moment, with a fairly simple structure, I see a lot more having to be moved if the structure gets complicated. There just happens to be a lot of interest in LPG, at the moment due to fuel prices/shortages .. will that interest continue enough to warrant its own board ??

Once LPG gets its own board, won't the tractor drivers want a "diesel" section for equality ...  then the 4 pots will ask for one  etc etc etc...

I just think it MAY become devisive....

[JamesV6CDX]

Tell the 4 pot owners to run and jump

Ack.. no...don't..... I don't own a V6 anymore!!

[Jay w]

Just my thoughts ...

Looking at how much stuff the Mods have to move about to get into the "correct" section at the moment, with a fairly simple structure, I see a lot more having to be moved if the structure gets complicated. There just happens to be a lot of interest in LPG, at the moment due to fuel prices/shortages .. will that interest continue enough to warrant its own board ??

Once LPG gets its own board, won't the tractor drivers want a "diesel" section for equality ...  then the 4 pots will ask for one  etc etc etc...

I just think it MAY become devisive....

over the last ear there has been a growing mass of queries relating to LPG, some of them are driven a bit more by the growing price of petrol.

Lots of the queries that relate to LPG are what kit to buy or how hard  is it to convert, again the issue is that there is no generic way of installing this kit, it is down to the car and the spec.

It would be great if we could devise a document/thread that contained all the info required, however there does seem to be a lot of questions that still come up.

personally i believe that a sticky would be better than a complete section. In time we would then build a very comprehensive thread and is would reduce the amount of different threads with the same info/requests.

The reason why i don't believe we wont get this with Petrol 4/6 cyl and Diesels is because general help will deal with those issues, LPG was never a standard fitting and so that generates more queries at a basic level

hope that makes sense  :-/

[Martin_1962]

I think there is enough traffic for another section, like meetings and suggestions.

We could fill it simply moving threads, and LPG won't go away for quite a while

[JueV6]

I think that the LPG should have a sticky in the General Help.
There is enough intrest to keep all the LPG enquires together.

I have LPG and so do quite a few members from what i've seen. I personally don't think that we would be splitting the forum.

Made my vote up to the Admin now

[philhoward]

I think there's another way to look at it - from the majority side of things.

Do non-LPG OOFers object to the number of LPG threads?  If it starts cluttering up the board too much, then its time to look at running a seperate one.

You could almost run the same rules on a HBV...but at least LPG is a big enough word to be searchable (unlike TC - too few letters).

Best it stays in one place - whether its in the General Help (most obvious place - although some threads pop up in General Chat) or its own forum.

I think it should be treated not by its specific nature, but rather by the thread count..if it was taking up 30% of threads in a section, then it needs its own TBH.

Personally, make no odds to me (although i'm in LPG transition mode, so could be biased), but am a mod on another forum and it annoys me when a new section is created (by request!) then gets no posts at all!  OK, thats not going to happen with an LPG section...

For now, if "LPG" is put at the front of the thread title, then its hardly difficult to miss..

[Dazzler]

How we going on this then???

Can we have a seperate section??? It would be a great help, espically with the amount of people starting/thinking about converting there cars :-/

[Jay w]

I think there's another way to look at it - from the majority side of things.

Do non-LPG OOFers object to the number of LPG threads?  If it starts cluttering up the board too much, then its time to look at running a seperate one.

You could almost run the same rules on a HBV...but at least LPG is a big enough word to be searchable (unlike TC - too few letters).

Best it stays in one place - whether its in the General Help (most obvious place - although some threads pop up in General Chat) or its own forum.

I think it should be treated not by its specific nature, but rather by the thread count..if it was taking up 30% of threads in a section, then it needs its own TBH.

Personally, make no odds to me (although i'm in LPG transition mode, so could be biased), but am a mod on another forum and it annoys me when a new section is created (by request!) then gets no posts at all!  OK, thats not going to happen with an LPG section...

For now, if "LPG" is put at the front of the thread title, then its hardly difficult to miss..

where we run the risk is duplication, something that we are starting to see already with requests for wiring codes for example.

I am wondering if, as an experiment we cant have an LPG sticky within the Technical side, in there we try and contain all the information we have gained to date from the installs that have been done, if the traffic is there the consider having an LPG section.

So far we have info on installs for 2.0, 2.5, 2.6, 3.2 and both saloons and estates, we have a lot of it covered.