petrol consumtion

Hi trickydicky, I have and Boxer based Autosleeper Symphony with the 2ltr petrol. As its our only (4 wheeled) vehicle it gets used as a car most of the time.
I get around 18 mpg around town and praps 24-26 on a decent run.

HTH
Frank
 
Mpg

Hi We have a Auto-sleeper Symbol a 2.2HDi local gives about 30mpg :)
long run Scotland returned 33.6 overall :):):)
 
why not work out miles per litre

in cas you haven't noticed you can't buy gallons any more
 
'Cos I'm a Boring Old Fart and my fuddled old brain doesn't register miles per litre, just like I can't get my head round these 25% hill signs - I only understand 1 in 4 etc. And anyway - we're British (well most of us are)

Frank
 
Thanks for that, Sounds as if it's about right then. Will start looking for a gas conversion next.

As for working in gallons, Never did like the metric system, still work in old money.
 
trickydicky59 said:
Thanks for that, Sounds as if it's about right then. Will start looking for a gas conversion next.
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Oddly enough I was looking at an online quote for mine this aft. As your van will be carb rather than injection the price will not be the same but I doubt if it will be far out.

I was quoted £1667.50 I know that the actual cost would be more than this as this quote was for a Boxer van. We have water tanks under our vans so the fitting of the LPG tank would not be as straightforward as they quote for.

Some time ago I did a spreadsheet for "my" club to work out the cost of payback on a gas conversion. Based on the above figure and an average of 20 mpg, 7000 miles per year and £1 per litre petrol 57p per litre gas, I got the following figures:
Using 100% gas, the break even point is at 22300 miles or 3.19 years, 75% gas gives 29733 miles /4.25 years and 50% gas = 44600 miles / 6.37 years assuming prices stay as they are now - which they wont.

HTH
Frank
 
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Boxerman said:
Oddly enough I was looking at an online quote for mine this aft. As your van will be carb rather than injection the price will not be the same but I doubt if it will be far out.


HTH
Frank
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Interesting figures there Boxerman.

I bought my old 2.0 petrol Duetto after working out similar figures. The same year diesel would have cost at least £2k more to buy and that represents about 28,000 miles (4+ years) payback at present fuel prices.

I get average 22mpg. but it will do 30 on a motorway run.

Gas conversion (£1,100) on my previous '91 Kon-tiki was an interesting experiment but losing 10% power on an already underpowered van was noticable - certainly not much good in the Derbyshire hills!

Anyhow the savings on hotels/sites is the biggest payback of any van I think......and the convenience of course - priceless.

BW
 
Boxerman said:
Oddly enough I was looking at an online quote for mine this aft. As your van will be carb rather than injection the price will not be the same but I doubt if it will be far out.

I was quoted £1667.50 I know that the actual cost would be more than this as this quote was for a Boxer van. We have water tanks under our vans so the fitting of the LPG tank would not be as straightforward as they quote for.

Some time ago I did a spreadsheet for "my" club to work out the cost of payback on a gas conversion. Based on the above figure and an average of 20 mpg, 7000 miles per year and £1 per litre petrol 57p per litre gas, I got the following figures:
Using 100% gas, the break even point is at 22300 miles or 3.19 years, 75% gas gives 29733 miles /4.25 years and 50% gas = 44600 miles / 6.37 years assuming prices stay as they are now - which they wont.

HTH
Frank
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here ya go ...


gasconvertioncosts.jpg


regards
aj
 
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