Gareth
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Saw my first V8 HSE today. I wonder how many V8's have been sold in the UK so far. Not many I'll bet.
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 7th May 2005 8:17 pm |
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NightFox
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Seen quite a few in London actually - I think that it must be a status symbol thing, sort of "Petrol prices? Doesn't bother me, I've got LOADSAMONEY"
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| 9th May 2005 10:23 am |
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Gareth
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I wonder how long before an LPG conversion is done on a D3 V8. LPG is ridiculously cheap now compared to diesel prices. My D3 TDV6 is costing me a packet to run when compared with my old Disco 2 V8 which was LPG'd.
I just filled up at 430 miles, it cost me £73. I could do 450 miles in my V8 for less than £60 of LPG. I saw LPG at 29.9 pence per litre yesterday at Morrisons supermarket in Hyde, Stockport. That is cheap motoring! At this rate, I'll be trading for a V8 if a good conversion comes around.
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| 9th May 2005 2:20 pm |
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simon
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...and then UK.gov will screw you like it has the diesel buyers !
As soon as the volume of LPG purchases goes up... smack !
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| 9th May 2005 9:27 pm |
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simon
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... or am I mistrusting of our government for some reason 
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| 9th May 2005 9:28 pm |
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Gareth
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They have been threatening to jack up LPG for a while, they even raised the tax on it last year, but only BP and Shell increased their prices for LPG. It is still damn cheap motoring.
I went diesel in anticipation of an lpg price rise, but so far its costing me. My colleague runs a Volvo S60 BiFuel (factory fit LPG), gets 25 mpg at 29 - 39 ppl.
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| 9th May 2005 9:40 pm |
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Stingray
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But if you take into account the £6,000 extra on the price of a V8 over a TDV6, plus the LPG conversion cost, you need to do an awful lot of miles to get your money back. Add to that higher depreciationon a V8, and it makes no sense. The way to do it might be to wait a year or two, and then swap your TDV6 for an equivalent model V8, which by then will probably be worth less than a diesel, rather than more when new. Then you can win all ways (unless the tax increases wildly on LPG).
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| 9th May 2005 10:08 pm |
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Gareth
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Yes thats what I had in mind. I would not put LPG on a new car, the warranty on the engine is straight out of the window!
I am not being totally serious! just dreaming!
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| 9th May 2005 10:13 pm |
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NightFox
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I think the government haven’t quite got the freedom to tax LPG as much as they do petrol and diesel, as unlike the latter two, LPG is also used as a domestic fuel for tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of people in the UK with no access to mains gas. Still, I wouldn’t put anything past them…
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| 10th May 2005 9:49 am |
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DiscoMad
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Back to the thread topic for a moment - I drove a V8 hSE at Eastner last week - very fast in the 'off' at road junctions, otherwise sounds the same inside !!!
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| 15th May 2005 3:28 pm |
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lee01277
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Prob a daft question, but can you lpg a diesel ? ..............Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
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| 23rd Jun 2005 12:45 am |
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Gareth
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I believe you can, but not so much for economy, more for power boosting. I think its a bit like putting NOS in a petrol engine 
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| 23rd Jun 2005 8:11 am |
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KL
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I understood that the government cannot raise duty on LPG by more than 1p per year, due to EU restrictions (duty on domestic fuel?).
The press have been muttering for a while now that Mr Brown would like to 'harmonise' LPG duty with other vehicle fuels though. What is certain is that it is no longer being promoted by the government as a preferred fuel- they've completely removed the Powershift LPG conversion grants which were previously available.
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| 23rd Jun 2005 2:54 pm |
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Nickhearne
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kevinlally wrote:I understood that the government cannot raise duty on LPG by more than 1p per year, due to EU restrictions (duty on domestic fuel?).
The press have been muttering for a while now that Mr Brown would like to 'harmonise' LPG duty with other vehicle fuels though. What is certain is that it is no longer being promoted by the government as a preferred fuel- they've completely removed the Powershift LPG conversion grants which were previously available.
If this is the case how come there is a threat that duty will be slapped on marine diesel?
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| 24th Jun 2005 9:40 am |
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KL
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Nickhearne wrote:
If this is the case how come there is a threat that duty will be slapped on marine diesel?
I have absolutely no idea!
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| 24th Jun 2005 10:19 am |
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