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[Taxi_Driver]

163 miles round trip.....

Left the Hotel at 9pm.....80ish miles to get back home.....10.10pm i walked thro my front door......not bad for the old girl.......seeing as i had to get out of Portsmouth and back into Swindon.......nearly 145k on the clock now.....tho i just did a quick calc......and she averaged 22mpg on lpg  

[JamesV6CDX]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

[Vamps]

163 miles round trip.....

Left the Hotel at 9pm.....80ish miles to get back home.....10.10pm i walked thro my front door......not bad for the old girl.......seeing as i had to get out of Portsmouth and back into Swindon.......nearly 145k on the clock now.....tho i just did a quick calc......and she averaged 22mpg on lpg  

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My old Manual 2.0 would do over 30 mpg and near to 40 whn the fuel strike, the first one, was on and driven nicely. That seems poor even for LPG

[Jay w]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

how the hell are you getting 35mpg on a motorway run, i still only average 30mpg on petrol or 22mpg on gas

[JamesV6CDX]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

how the hell are you getting 35mpg on a motorway run, i still only average 30mpg on petrol or 22mpg on gas

I was getting 22mpg before, but I sorted out the stat ( so it's now getting up to temp) - sorted out the cambelt timing, (which was a few deg out) - got the alignment done which helped - serviced the brakes, so on so forth...

I now easily get 35mpg at 70mph = 3.0 Auto.

My 2.0 was gutless and did 20mpg on Gas.

It really makes me question if I need it - 500 miles+ per tank is achieavable on petrol  :-/

[Entwood]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

methinks you are not comparing like-with-like  

Portsmouth - Swindon ... 80 + miles in a little over an hour is moving quite quickly ... so an "average" of 22 mpg (LPG) is IMHO pretty good. my guess is if he had taken 1 1/2 hours he'd probably get well over 30 mpg (LPG) and that is cheap motoring !!

LPG is 59 p/litre .. thats £2.68 gallon .. at 22 mpg thats 8.2 p/mile
Petrol is £1.15 /ltr thats £5.22  .. you got 33 mpg thats 15.82 p/mile

so worst case is .. TD saved 7.6 p/mile .. and if he'd gone a little slower would have saved even more !!

80 + miles @ 7.6 = saving over £6.00 just on the way home !!

LPG still works out far cheaper in pence /mile  

[JamesV6CDX]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

methinks you are not comparing like-with-like  

Portsmouth - Swindon ... 80 + miles in a little over an hour is moving quite quickly ... so an "average" of 22 mpg (LPG) is IMHO pretty good. my guess is if he had taken 1 1/2 hours he'd probably get well over 30 mpg (LPG) and that is cheap motoring !!

LPG is 59 p/litre .. thats £2.68 gallon .. at 22 mpg thats 8.2 p/mile
Petrol is £1.15 /ltr thats £5.22  .. you got 33 mpg thats 15.82 p/mile

so worst case is .. TD saved 7.6 p/mile .. and if he'd gone a little slower would have saved even more !!

80 + miles @ 7.6 = saving over £6.00 just on the way home !!

LPG still works out far cheaper in pence /mile  

I must agree to a large degree - my 2.0 would achieve near on 30mpg if I was very very careful on a run... on LPG...

which works out at 60mpg running cost wise - so better than 36mpg out of a 3.0.

At the moment though, (and I don't mean to sound pedantic here) - for what I would save, having free time is worth more to me - at this moment in time - than saving a possible 8 pence per mile  

Fact is, every day I am so wrapped up in something Maria doesn't see enough of me - so I guess, the initial conversion is more tricky for me to do, than anything else.

I may well consider it when things settle in December - but as it stands, I am in no rush to convert  

[Mr Skrunts]

averaged 22mpg on lpg  

It really does still make me question how viable LPG is now, if that's what you get on a run ( about the same as my 2.0 did )

I had an "enthusiastic" V6 run today, about 160 miles in total. I reset the CID before I moved away, and at the end of that mileage I had over 33mpg on the screen - and this is on a 3.0 V6 !

So - 22mpg at approx 56p per litre - or 33mpg at approx 1.10 per litre.

It would take quite some time to break even there - and all my miles are motorway these days.

Although I like LPG and I like installing it, I'm still not convinced about converting my latest 3.0 Estate, if I can get near 35/36mpg on a careful run  :-/

methinks you are not comparing like-with-like  

Portsmouth - Swindon ... 80 + miles in a little over an hour is moving quite quickly ... so an "average" of 22 mpg (LPG) is IMHO pretty good. my guess is if he had taken 1 1/2 hours he'd probably get well over 30 mpg (LPG) and that is cheap motoring !!

LPG is 59 p/litre .. thats £2.68 gallon .. at 22 mpg thats 8.2 p/mile
Petrol is £1.15 /ltr thats £5.22  .. you got 33 mpg thats 15.82 p/mile

so worst case is .. TD saved 7.6 p/mile .. and if he'd gone a little slower would have saved even more !!

80 + miles @ 7.6 = saving over £6.00 just on the way home !!

LPG still works out far cheaper in pence /mile  

So Mr Average doing 12K per year saves £912.00

and tht based on the minimum saving.