Thread: Phoenix's Disco Buying Decisions: Gas Vs Diesel

I'm thinking of swapping over to a V8.

I've gone from driving 30,000 km per year to 00,044 km per week. Seems a waste not to

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

I'm thinking of swapping over to a V8.

I've gone from driving 30,000 km per year to 00,044 km per week. Seems a waste not to

So,,,, it's hardly worth starting it up to travel 44 metres a week....



JC

I should mention of course that personal preference comes down to it too. I drove a 96 Disco V8 today and was impressed with its smoothness and power delivery, VERY nice indeed. BUT, i know I cannot live with the fuel usage, and having gone down the LPG path before im not going through that again.

Dad has a V8 D2, anda V8 county, and I do love the engine. If the disco was going to be a plaything, i'd go gas. But it will be a family car / tourer / off roader, so diesel will be the go for me.

After holidays the search will begin in earnest

Thanks for all of your advice and insight guys, It actually has really helped.

Richard

My disco was just a tourer,I had sill tanks so I didn't loose cargo space.What really needs to be done is for tanks to be made rectangular shaped so you get more volumn for a given space as range is always the biggest drawback. Pat

Ok, dredging this one back up. When the bank balance comes up to a reasonable level, I'll be on the hunt.

Talking to a bloke recently he reakoned a manual was the only way to go as the auto's let go of 4th gear. That wasn't something that i'd heard of before, and a couple of vehicles I had my eye on were autos. any truth in it?

Sounds like pure BS to me Phoenix, never heard of that before.
Good luck in the search and good choice on the Diesel. I had V8's all my life, and before the D2 (TD5), a D1 V8 on gas. Dieso is the go for Disco's for all the reasons mentioned.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

The price of gas is increasing, by 2012 (IIRC) gas price will be on par with motor spirit.

I don't understand that comment, the tax on petrol at present is 38cpl (as far as I understand) if $0.38 is added to the price of LPG that still brings it up to only around $0.90/L about $0.20-$0.30/l less.

If that happens the price of Taxi fares will increase dramaticaly and if the government is serious about reducing photo-chemical smog in cities they will never increase the price of LPG so it is uneconomical for high-mileage commercial city users like taxis.

My guess is that they will re-think the tax, so it is a watch this space issue.

Re-diesel Vs LPG when the economy was good the price of Diesel was around 3 times more that the price of LPG. You would have to get triple the k/L to make diesel more economical than LPG. Even today the price of diesel is twice the price of LPG and you don't get double the distance out of diesel.

The other statements as well as the loss of load space are true, unless you add sill tanks to the disco for the petrol and replace the original disco tank with the LPG tanks. I bought a pair of 2nd hand sill tanks for my RRc at the Sydney Expo for $40.

Diana