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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

[MartinP]

I was just about to add a similar thread when I found this.

I am also looking in to doing the LPG thing to my 3.0 Elite. I am doing 500-600 miles/week and it is crippling the finances. I have even taken to driving the wifes 306 TD  [smiley=cry.gif].

I am going to do it, I'm just not sure weather to DIY it, or pay a small fortune. I have been quoted between £1500-£2200 for it to be fully fitted. I pass the LPG supplier that Issunaz has mentioned every morning and evening, so a supply is no problem. I expect I'll end up doing it myself.

As for the tank position, I have seen photos on the web of a converted Omega with the "donut" tank in the spare wheel well. If it would get in the way of the light cluster, then they wouldn't have put it there...would they?

I say GO FOR IT!!!!! 3.0 V6 power and refinement, but the running costs of a crappy 306 TD. I like the idea of that.

I used this supplier to convert a 3.6 Daimler and had no problems with it at all.

I believe a member used the same supplier for his Omega and it did not go so well.

Please research !!!

[Paulus]

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[sassanach]

just get on with it ,you know you want to and im sure your well capable

[Elite Pete]

2 words - heating gas

The business of getting it into your car isn't trivial though, and it'd be a bit suspicious for me to be using tons of LPG for heating when I've got a natural gas supply for that :-/

Another 2 (buzz) words - Carbon Neutral...

Ah, Ruth Kelly and her "Zero Carbon Homes". Clearly no-one in government understands thermodynamics. I guess they'll each have a nuclear reactor humming away in the cupboard under the stairs.

and easiest way to do that is to increase the tax.

It's the only way the government will go. Anything else might require them to listen to experts (ones that haven't been previously paid off to toe the line) and make difficult long term decisions. Far less risky to whack up the tax and let people figure out their own way to avoid going broke or getting hypothermia  

Kevin

I now someone that used to have two huge cylinder delivered every week and put it in his car, he used to tell them he did hot air ballooning