Thread: Classic Rangie on gas

Originally Posted by dobbo

Then do up your series or buy another series. Whatever you buy make it a diesel, V8 and cheap to run as possible don't mix.

The series needs a helluva lot more spent on it than what i have at the moment.

As for diesels if you are trying to sell me your diesel series, nice try.

I would have to say that to replace your daily commuter with a V8 Range Rover would be a little silly. Especially when this seems to be a budget conscious decision.

In our household I have a 1994 manual V8 Discovery and my wife has a 2004 automatic 4 cylinder Corolla. My Disco runs on petrol only as does my wife's Corolla. Even if my Disco was on gas, not in my wildest dreams could I convince myself that it is cheaper to run than the Corolla.

You need to take into consideration everything that goes with it. Plus the fact I would never buy my wife an old Land Rover. That is why she has an ever reliable, well serviced Toyota.

Also think of the cost of the mods that you will no doubt want to do when you get it.

I don't mean to be a party pooper but I think you have already made your decision regardless of what the mighty AULRO machine spits out.

I don't know who currently drives what but if your wife has the Laser and you take the Disco to work will she be happy with the older RR or will she commandeer your newer Disco?

I'm lucky in that work pays for my Disco fuel bills so even with the expense of running about in the Disco we take it everywhere and my wife uses the Corolla when it is just her.

Originally Posted by Ace

The series needs a helluva lot more spent on it than what i have at the moment.

As for diesels if you are trying to sell me your diesel series, nice try.

No, it wasn't intended to sound like that, I just stated a series petrol or diesel would be the cheapest economical landy to buy and run

Originally Posted by dobbo

No, it wasn't intended to sound like that, I just stated a series petrol or diesel would be the cheapest economical landy to buy and run

Not really, they can be thirsty aswell, i dont know exact figures but i can see a series petrol costing less (petrol cost only) to run than a V8 rangie on gas. But i could be wrong it happened once before

Sorry to interrupt the discussion when it was getting so interesting.

Ace, my gas-powered County (carbs, hi-comp stroked motor) is a complete pig on petrol unless it's been run recently on petrol. It seems to need fuel in the floats for 24 hours before it will work. I don't know if this also applies to EFI versions, which comments on this and other forums (fora?) suggest are trickier than carbs to start on gas.

Gas economy is better than what some recent posts have suggested - fuel costs for me are about what they were with my Subaru Forester. You know what the repair/service bills are likely to look like.

I can't see the photos mentioned in early posts, but if the gas installation looks anything but professional I'd be giving it a miss personally. You wouldn't want to have to remove it to get registration.

Originally Posted by Utemad

I would have to say that to replace your daily commuter with a V8 Range Rover would be a little silly. Especially when this seems to be a budget conscious decision.

In our household I have a 1994 manual V8 Discovery and my wife has a 2004 automatic 4 cylinder Corolla. My Disco runs on petrol only as does my wife's Corolla. Even if my Disco was on gas, not in my wildest dreams could I convince myself that it is cheaper to run than the Corolla.

You need to take into consideration everything that goes with it. Plus the fact I would never buy my wife an old Land Rover. That is why she has an ever reliable, well serviced Toyota.

Also think of the cost of the mods that you will no doubt want to do when you get it.

I don't mean to be a party pooper but I think you have already made your decision regardless of what the mighty AULRO machine spits out.

I don't know who currently drives what but if your wife has the Laser and you take the Disco to work will she be happy with the older RR or will she commandeer your newer Disco?

I'm lucky in that work pays for my Disco fuel bills so even with the expense of running about in the Disco we take it everywhere and my wife uses the Corolla when it is just her.

Hi utemade, i havent made up my mind yet, i need to know what needs doing, if anything to get it past rego.

I drive the laser so this vehicle will be for me and its mainly to drive the 10-15km each day to and from work so it wont be doing a huge amount of Km's. As for mods we wont be doing any, i will be using the disco off road, if the rangie does any work off road it would only be fire trail type stuff to take the dogs out for a walk or something.

Stacey would use the disco during the week, the short trips in the disco were coking the engine up, since we bought another car and i have been running that to work the disco runs alot better only doing the longer runs.

In the end you are right, we have in a away made up our mind, i was just interested as to what sort of mileage i would expect from one on gas as this would have affected my decision. I am relatively happy with the figures quoted, and whilst it wont be cheaper to run than the laser is wont break the bank. If it does we can always sell it, with 12 months rego we might even make money on it.

Originally Posted by scrambler

Sorry to interrupt the discussion when it was getting so interesting.

Ace, my gas-powered County (carbs, hi-comp stroked motor) is a complete pig on petrol unless it's been run recently on petrol. It seems to need fuel in the floats for 24 hours before it will work. I don't know if this also applies to EFI versions, which comments on this and other forums (fora?) suggest are trickier than carbs to start on gas.

Gas economy is better than what some recent posts have suggested - fuel costs for me are about what they were with my Subaru Forester. You know what the repair/service bills are likely to look like.

I can't see the photos mentioned in early posts, but if the gas installation looks anything but professional I'd be giving it a miss personally. You wouldn't want to have to remove it to get registration.

Yeah, it all depends on the gas conversion. Rangieman is checking it out tomorrow for me, he is familiar with gas set ups so if he reckons its suss i will give it a miss, if not i'll give it ago. Time will tell, watch this space. Matt

Originally Posted by scrambler

I don't know if this also applies to EFI versions, which comments on this and other forums (fora?) suggest are trickier than carbs to start on gas.

I thought that the norm was to start on petrol and flick to gas when running anyway, is this the case?