Autogas??!

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Deborah H
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Post by Deborah H »

Hello! :wave:

Had a very lovely time today zooming about with the roof down for the first time in ages....I LOVE MY CAR!

However...

I don't love the flippin fuel consumption...very thirsty. Has anyone converted to Autogas or looked at the pros and cons of doing this?

(Had a wee search on here and the only reference I could find to it mentioned that converstion would cost £1500 - :shock: )

If anyone has investigated this or knows more than me (ie nothing) then I'd be most grateful for your thoughts!

Thanks!

Deb

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Post by paul_y3k »

this was a topicof converstaion here at work the other day ...

i think the conclusion was ...

Not many garages sell autogas
expensive to get converstion
effects power output of car

government might give some sort of rebate for the conversion ?
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Post by Greenday »

I looked into it, it is expensive to get done, more garages sell it now than used to (still not many though), I didn't go for it due to not having a spare 1.5k floating around anywhere. Also there are a lot of cowboy garages that will do it cheap but chances are it will leak so you need to pay the high prices as i guess you get what you pay for.
Also the car will still run on normal petrol so you wouldn't get stranded looking for a garage that sells Autogas, i reckon it would be worth doing if you had the money to do it and would probably pay for itself in a year or so. That's all i know but i'd be interested to hear how you get on if you decide to have it done
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Post by Greenday »

also this page give me loads of info when i was looking:
http://www.autogas.co.uk/
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Post by MattB »

I think you'd also lose a lot of space in the boot for the extra fuel tank - could be problem with the CC due to the roof.

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Post by carl »

Engine is only 80% efficient on gas, and you can only fill the tank 80% full. So to get the equivalent range of (say) a 10 gallon fuel tank, you need nearly 16 gallons of gas tank.

The "proper" way to get economy is to get a diesel. If you want to drive around in a sporty little number, you have to take the pain of the fuel costs.
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Post by Greenday »

Engine is only 80% efficient on gas, and you can only fill the tank 80% full. So to get the equivalent range of (say) a 10 gallon fuel tank, you need nearly 16 gallons of gas tank.


I thought that depended on the type of autogas system you had installed in the car and the new ones could now do the same as normal petrol, but i am probably completely wrong and was only thinking what i wanted it to be like :lol:
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Post by MattB »

The "proper" way to get economy is to get a diesel. If you want to drive around in a sporty little number, you have to take the pain of the fuel costs.
Yay, Diesel rocks ;)

Give it another few years and diesels will be sporty (if still loud!) For less than £13k you can get a 180bhp diesel with over 300lbft torque which will beat the pants of every standard Pug apart from the 180. OK it's a Skoda Fabia but the engine is the same in many Golfs, Seats, Audis etc.

And Pug are allegedly bringing out a 136bhp 206 GTi diesel in the summer. I reckon that could quite easily be modded to 170bhp+ for less than a grand.

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Post by carl »

The "performance diesel" is already here (BMW 330d anyone?) but if diesel gets too popular Prudence Brown will tax the nuts off it :(
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Post by Jussi »

My friend got chipped (tuned) Bmw330d with sport suspension and some skirts and so on... That's very fast diesel indeed. What about Skoda Fabia RS, that's pocket rocket diesel ;)
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Post by Derek »

if the gas tank was gonna go in the boot then i would say you may have problems selling the car as with roof down you will end up with even less boot space.

also with the cost, unless you are gonna keep the car for years and years then you may not make your outlay back as i don't expect you to get it back at resale time.

might be wrong but i also heard the government are putting the duty up on gas at the budget as it isn't as e/f as they thought it was :rolleyes:
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Post by carl »

might be wrong but i also heard the government are putting the duty up on gas at the budget as it isn't as e/f as they thought it was :rolleyes:
...or because enough people have committed to it now that they can stitch them up and get some extra revenue...
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Post by Derek »

might be wrong but i also heard the government are putting the duty up on gas at the budget as it isn't as e/f as they thought it was :rolleyes:
...or because enough people have committed to it now that they can stitch them up and get some extra revenue...
that's what i meant :mrgreen:
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Deborah H
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Post by Deborah H »

Thanks for the info chaps....might look into it some more at some stage but seems the cons outweigh the pros on autogas for now....

Ta! :)

Deb