Thread: 3.9l D1 mileage

Originally Posted by ozscott

I dont accept that emergency services would stay away from a vehicle with an LPG tank until the fire dept arrives, but lets face it their response times are usually better than anyone else anyway.

I found it hard to beleive also, but that is what was told to us while doing the course. The course was the St Johns Ambulance Senior Fist Aid Course.
From my original post i guess you can gather im not a LPG person, but each to there own. Dont mean to offend anyone that loves their LPG. Just my opinion, but that doesnt mean im right. We use our disco mainly for travelling and it returns a consistant 13-14 l/100. So using Jeep boys calculations above it costs me just over a dollar more compared to LPG to travel 100kms. So based on an average of 20000kms a year thats a saving of just over 200 bucks a year. If i were to drive it constantly in the city then i understand LPG would have a much greater saving, but id still rather just buy a smaller car to run around the city with than convert to LPG.

And Big Guy surely you know what i mean by cooked with timber. Maybe it didnt make sense the way i wrote it. Surely a steak cooked over some hot timber coals tastes better than flame grilled by LPG on your bbq? You cant beat a nice open fire and cooking your meal on a grill over the timber coals.

My post was just to clarify that LPG is not the same gas that australia has in abundance. Then i added a few bits. Again dont mean to offend just posted my opinion. Anyone considering LPG should do there homework fully and know everything about it. And yes i agree to some/alot of people LPG offers a big saving.

my d1 3.5 manual will get 400/450km out of a full tank of petrol running 32inch mud terrian on road trips,in the bush with the simex on i get 200km,
and with the topic of lpg was speaking to the ex owner of lpgas1 and he rekons aus has about 500 hundred years of usable gas

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Originally Posted by ERASER

People need to learn that lpg is not what Australia has in abundance.LPG is liquidfied petrolium gas. It is a byproduct created when processing crude oil and making it into petrol. Without crude oil there still isnt any LPG.

Since we are off topic

If you were to park on the Hastings/Dandenong Road for 24 hours & counted the LPG tankers heading out of Hastings you will hit triple figures before 20 hours.
These tankers are loading LPG at the ESSO BHP facility. Esso refine the LPG from the natural gas before its used in Melbourne. Kleenheat Gas do the same in Perth ( & ship the Butane to overseas markets)
Oh and yes, its also a petroleum by product- about 20% of the market.
Why did I bother writing these facts so easily found by a Google search?--People need to learn

Well i stand corrected then. I never knew that and ive learnt something today. Ill go stand in the corner now.

We're OK for gas for a long long time to come.
Instead of standing in a corner, research statistics of LPG vehicles incinerating occupants Vs petrol.
Much better use of your time.

Originally Posted by DeeJay

We're OK for gas for a long long time to come.
Instead of standing in a corner, research statistics of LPG vehicles incinerating occupants Vs petrol.
Much better use of your time.

As punishment ive gone out and washed the wifes disco that i got all dirty playing in the mud on the weekend.
As for the fire bit, thats only what i was told at the course. I found it hard to beleive but they said emergancy workers are told the same. It would be interesting to know if there are any emegency workers on this forum that could answer as to whether they are told that.

i was told for a lpg tank to explode the pressure on the outside needs to be greater then the inside of the tankand would take a very large crash for it to explode,a lpg tank is also around 4mm thicker then a petrol tank

As an ex-emergency worker ( firey ) I've never heard of any of the services being instructed to stand clear and wait for the big red truck to come. I think that in most cases instinct would take over and you would do what was necessary to get the patient out of trouble. As it would stand if there was a serious leak, ignition sources would be removed ( disconnect battery )whilst being drenched in a mist then patient removed as quickly and safely as possible. These sorts of jobs are a bugger on a winters night.

Originally Posted by ERASER

We use our disco mainly for travelling and it returns a consistant 13-14 l/100. So using Jeep boys calculations above it costs me just over a dollar more compared to LPG to travel 100kms. So based on an average of 20000kms a year thats a saving of just over 200 bucks a year. If i were to drive it constantly in the city then i understand LPG would have a much greater saving, but id still rather just buy a smaller car to run around the city with than convert to LPG.

like i said i was only going of what everyone on here has said they get, i will be using it as a daily driver but like i say horses for courses for me gas would best the best option dollar wise just thought that it would be a good idea to try put together what i have gathered and save everyone else trying to do the figures