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Yes, DIY with Martin's help - £600

20 (64.5%)

Yes, pro conversion, £1300

3 (9.7%)

No, don't bother

8 (25.8%)

Total Members Voted: 29

[cem_devecioglu]

So far

12 for DIY conversion
3 for Pro
7 for not bother.

It doesn't really matter what people vote. It's your car, your set of circumstances and, most importantly, your money

Agreed . And its your risk.

Only an idea proffesional job will be safer than DIY..As they have equipments to measure even small leaks .

I have used  LPG in the past with my previous car.Economy is really good (beginning)  
But if you start using the car more (happened to me) economy will be worser than before (from the parts)

[PaulW]

I don't really have time to DIY mine with being at uni so the courtesy car is whats making me seriously consider it.

I'd be averaging £70 to £100 a week in fuel, so anything to half that will easily make me smile

[Kevin Wood]

It's a shame there aren't more tank options for the saloon because I'd convert mine if it didn't mean losing half the boot.

I'm surprised no-one has considered exchanging the petrol tank for something smaller and using the space thus saved for an LPG tank. I guess that's down to having to engineer a different solution for each car but there are companies around that'll make custom fuel tanks in either plastic or aluminium for reasonable money.

How much range could you get out of a doughnut tank in the spare wheel recess?

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

So far

12 for DIY conversion
3 for Pro
7 for not bother.

It doesn't really matter what people vote. It's your car, your set of circumstances and, most importantly, your money

Agreed . And its your risk.

Only an idea proffesional job will be safer than DIY..As they have equipments to measure even small leaks .

I have used  LPG in the past with my previous car.Economy is really good (beginning)  
But if you start using the car more (happened to me) economy will be worser than before (from the parts)

Soapy water works well and you can spend longer and do a neater job

[TheBoy]

It's a shame there aren't more tank options for the saloon because I'd convert mine if it didn't mean losing half the boot.

I'm surprised no-one has considered exchanging the petrol tank for something smaller and using the space thus saved for an LPG tank. I guess that's down to having to engineer a different solution for each car but there are companies around that'll make custom fuel tanks in either plastic or aluminium for reasonable money.

How much range could you get out of a doughnut tank in the spare wheel recess?

Kevin

Yeah, losing the boot means running on wet fart juice isn't an option for me.  But I doubt there is enough space in place of 75l petrol tank for a decent lpg tank - bearing in mind you'll still need a 30l-ish tank for those times when you can't get fart juice.

[JamesV6CDX]

fart juice.

you really don't like LPG, do you?

[cem_devecioglu]

It's a shame there aren't more tank options for the saloon because I'd convert mine if it didn't mean losing half the boot.

I'm surprised no-one has considered exchanging the petrol tank for something smaller and using the space thus saved for an LPG tank. I guess that's down to having to engineer a different solution for each car but there are companies around that'll make custom fuel tanks in either plastic or aluminium for reasonable money.

How much range could you get out of a doughnut tank in the spare wheel recess?

Kevin

Yeah, losing the boot means running on wet fart juice isn't an option for me.  But I doubt there is enough space in place of 75l petrol tank for a decent lpg tank - bearing in mind you'll still need a 30l-ish tank for those times when you can't get fart juice.

fart juice !!! supper  

[Jay w]

the guy who is fitting mine has told me that side mounted donut tanks cannot be used now, the donut tank can only be used if the tank is horizontal on the floor.
I have been given the option of 60 or 75 litre tank that will sit behind the seats, having looked at it i don't think it will take up much nmore space than my subs

[Entwood]

A mate of mine had something called "torpedo tanks" fitted, went behind the cills on his Disco, can these be fitted to a meega ??

Just a thought ...

[Chopsdad]

It's a shame there aren't more tank options for the saloon because I'd convert mine if it didn't mean losing half the boot.

I'm surprised no-one has considered exchanging the petrol tank for something smaller and using the space thus saved for an LPG tank. I guess that's down to having to engineer a different solution for each car but there are companies around that'll make custom fuel tanks in either plastic or aluminium for reasonable money.

How much range could you get out of a doughnut tank in the spare wheel recess?

Kevin

Yeah, losing the boot means running on wet fart juice isn't an option for me.  But I doubt there is enough space in place of 75l petrol tank for a decent lpg tank - bearing in mind you'll still need a 30l-ish tank for those times when you can't get fart juice.

fart juice !!! supper  

Did you mean super?  

James - LPG it.  Then you can help Martin answer all the LPG questions on here.  

£700 - recouped in 4m. That saves you hundreds of pounds every year from then on. As for power - with LPG you can have the heaviest right foot in the world and not have to worry about the cost.

[TheBoy]

A mate of mine had something called "torpedo tanks" fitted, went behind the cills on his Disco, can these be fitted to a meega ??

Just a thought ...

No...

[cem_devecioglu]

It's a shame there aren't more tank options for the saloon because I'd convert mine if it didn't mean losing half the boot.

I'm surprised no-one has considered exchanging the petrol tank for something smaller and using the space thus saved for an LPG tank. I guess that's down to having to engineer a different solution for each car but there are companies around that'll make custom fuel tanks in either plastic or aluminium for reasonable money.

How much range could you get out of a doughnut tank in the spare wheel recess?

Kevin

Yeah, losing the boot means running on wet fart juice isn't an option for me.  But I doubt there is enough space in place of 75l petrol tank for a decent lpg tank - bearing in mind you'll still need a 30l-ish tank for those times when you can't get fart juice.

fart juice !!! supper  

Did you mean super?  

Yep ..Emphasized like my language  

[Kevin Wood]

.. and call me cynical but I swear the government are just waiting for a few more people to take it up before they spin some shock horror story about it being just as bad for the environment as petrol and whack up the duty on LPG.

Then again, I was saying that 8 years ago when I bought my last car and pondered an LPG conversion, then didn't bother.  

That had a horizontal spare wheel well too.

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

.. and call me cynical but I swear the government are just waiting for a few more people to take it up before they spin some shock horror story about it being just as bad for the environment as petrol and whack up the duty on LPG.

Then again, I was saying that 8 years ago when I bought my last car and pondered an LPG conversion, then didn't bother.  

That had a horizontal spare wheel well too.

Kevin

2 words - heating gas

[TheBoy]

.. and call me cynical but I swear the government are just waiting for a few more people to take it up before they spin some shock horror story about it being just as bad for the environment as petrol and whack up the duty on LPG.

Then again, I was saying that 8 years ago when I bought my last car and pondered an LPG conversion, then didn't bother.  

That had a horizontal spare wheel well too.

Kevin

2 words - heating gas

Another 2 (buzz) words - Carbon Neutral - government said some time ago that it wanted to reduce energy used in homes, and easiest way to do that is to increase the tax.