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[Radiomarko]

Me manual tractor seems to do 30-36 mpg around towns, 44-46 on A roads ( mighty twisty here not Roman straight!) and something over 50 on an empty M5. But then I'm light of foot and cid may lie.

[Lazydocker]

I'd check the gearbox myself, then once you have noticed the lack of a clutch replace it with a nice manual box lol

Should I not believe the MID when it says 26 m/gal? I get about 360 miles on a tankful, takes 60-65 ltrs (assume 62.5), do some maths..... comes out at 26.16 mpg... seems right to me!

would people be expecting better or worse economy than that?

The trouble with an LPG conversion is the 25% load on the insurance. when I'm already paying 950 notes a year for comprehensive cover I don't particularly fancy a 25% loading!

Did they do a pre/mini-facelift 2.2dti???

Change insurance company then!!!

Most insurers don't load the premium at all, or charge an admin fee to change, but some even offer a discount! More Than actually offer a discount for LPG cars

I'm with Swiftcover and they don't load the premium at all In fact, they don't even ask about LPG, it's just an accepted modification

[Martin_1962]

LPG is good - about £32 every 9 days

[platty]

Many a true word said in Jest
ive got a manual gearbox ready to go then its gettin the "Chip'd "  & ill go from there ...but the diesel/auto economy has been disapointing so far  

Do you keep on top of the servicing? Oil & filter changes (every 3.5k), fuel filter, air filter are the main ones I do regularly. When I first got mine the economy was poor (for a manual) but I serviced it up over a few months and finally got he chip fitted - its quite good now.

The auto 'box will always make it a bit worse though  

[MickAP]

Don't trust the MID readings to be correct in a chipped TD.
Mine tells me I'm doing wildly good MPG figures, but in reality it's not.
The only way is as mentioned before is brim the tank and do a check manually.
I think I may need to do that diesel magic trick myself, to see if I get better results.
Did a rough check on my MPG last week and got 425 miles from a tankfull. That was travelling around North Yorkshire moors and a good deal of short journeys, and a 100 mile tow with a near on 1.5 tonne caravan.......not too bad really.

Mick

Mick

[ali]

i havent quite worked this "quote" thing out yet

I couldnt work it out either so posted the question in Forum Problems,
under Highlight message



http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1241097819

Hope that explains it, if thats even what your talking about