It's an honour you used my pic Mark (free of charge of course)
Well I was told that the philosophy behind our system is from a fueltype point of view, if you use cheaper fuel you must be doing a lot of kilometres = more burden to the roads = more roadtax, combined with the weight of the vehicle.
In theory it seems a fair point of view but it is really annoying, especially when there is more influence from environmental issues these days.
Electric driving is hot, nobody realises the environmental consequences of fabricating and recycling these batterypacks, while as you say, LPG is clean, production is easy.
I remember when LPG was becoming popular back in the sixties, it was a wast product from refining crude oil and to be blasted off at refineries.
Road tax in Holland is based on the car's weight. The more weight, the more punishment.
Our Merc A190 shoppingcart weighs 1100 kg and costs on petrol €38 a month, I think that is reasonable to benefit from well maintained roads.
If I should run it on LPG (where to fit the tank?) it should become €53 a month, that already becomes itchy.
From 1500 kg the taxman expects you to be a sheik's relative and charges go up exponentially with differences in electric (free of charge), hybrid (a bit), petrol, diesel and LPG being top of the bill, as a bonus they add 100 kg to your cars weight because of the LPG stuff (tank etc.)
We are forced to drive small cars, preferably electric they are subsidised as the charging pole at your doorstep. It's just all politics and we have to deal with it.
My Classics I could run them because of vintage years of build but that is no longer. There were some illigal practices too, ever seen a Disco with a '74 licenceplate?
As for your encouragement to stay, thank you guys, that makes me blush.
And Richard that beer in september is still on, there will come some replacement transport.
Cheers, Tony.
Allright guys, it's just the way it is. I cannot justify the running costs (or should I say keeping costs) anymore of my P38 so I had to decide to sell it.
Registering it on LPG means €260 each month, that is road tax plus insurance. For that amount I may park it up on the public road without driving it one meter.
Registering it on petrol means €153 each month plus have to deal with petrolprices.
There is one escape, if I can become a G3 certificate roadtax will be €170 each month but only with a bill of an installer.
Further communication with the authorities learn that such a certificate for Rover V8 only is given when it has a Lovato vapouriser, they paid some 35000 euros to the government to be authorized. My vapouriser is Landi Renzo and is just as adjustable as others with a computer controlled system. (is this a banana country or not?)
I sold it to a gentleman who always wanted to have a well functioning P38, I told him I'm not a polisher but want everything technically to be sound, he accepted the sagging headliner and payd my asking price, I told the missus I'm almost running even.(☺)
Last night he sent me a message that after his drive home (1.5 hour) he was very satisfied and she drives lovely.
That's good to hear.
So guys, I thank you all for the cameradery and helpful tips, I'll be lurking of course and keep my mouth shut (and don't delete any threads).
Regards, Tony.
Furness (ia_dora) has the same for same price. Maybe closer to you?
Furness
Edit No they are not, it's past Liverpool...
You could look for a passenger seat on this side of the Channel.
I use imgsafe.org They host jpg, gif and png up to 20MB each for free. Last month they were offline a couple of times for a few hours so decided to go for img shack which is $ 28 a year. So I've got two now ha ha.
Thinking about a NAS though, just figuring out how to protect the lot.
Gilbertd wrote:
... which then picked up gravel so she could generate sparks when she walked.
Like our kid's sneakers but without batteries ☺
Maybe a pic says more, this is how I did it:
Where the fuelline and electrics leave the wheeltub, they go between floor and subframe, mainly for protection and distance to exhaustpipe.
If I understand what you say it's 'pst-pst' and a few seconds later again 'pst-pst'. The body lowers a few millimeters until a certain point then the compressor kicks in and the height corrects itself.
That could mean a dead spot in the heightsensor(s), the ecu does not get a complete signal from all four and lowers the body a bit to get a signal it recognises.
You could measure resistance of each sensor over the complete reach, preferrably with an oldfashioned analog meter and see if the needle drops at some point.
And curious. Pictures of smoke can be two things, engines to be repaired or Marty's Disco working as a BBQ
Reading all the preparations you all are making for Summercamp makes me feel sorry not to attempt.
I wish you all a good weekend, above all, have fun!
GeorgeB wrote:
I forgot that when a Filipino says, "Later" he does not necessarily mean the same day, so I'm still awaiting!
Same as in Spain, when they say 'mañana' they don't mean tomorrow, it's just not today.
Don't know if has anything to do with it, but on older pumps there was a manometer that showed around 10 bar pressure on delivery.
Today with the digital numbers there is no pressuremeter present anymore, who says it still gives 10 bar pressure?
And does it vary from pump to pump?
Bonnetcables: can't you connect them head to tail with ductape and pull them through the grommet. Have helper pushing while you pull (or vice versa).
Orangebean wrote:
I suppose it's sort of HEVAC but I'm still waiting for a convenient time for the crack on my screen to lead to the screen being replaced as coincidentally most of the heating elements have failed ;)
When you drive behind a lorry (preferrably foreign), note his licenceplate and tell your Insurance there was a rock coming from his tires...☺
Orangebean wrote:
Disclaimer- letting air out of tyres may result in other unwanted side effects such as tyre explosion, delamination, impaired vehicle handling with loss of control and high speed rollover resulting in death or injury to driver, passengers and 3rd parties.
:) :)
At least it saved you the horrible job of taking out the laptop, plugging in the cable and calibrating bags.☺
Pleasure is all mine Simon, beertokens already have been consumed!
Tony.
I doubt if that has been a leak, being a Thor it is nearest to the oilfillercap (so it is righthandside of engine). Just a bit of spillage in the past and road dust does the rest. I should not worry too much. If you have a friendly friend with a garage ask him to bung the CO tester in the tail, that can often tell you if there is a vacuum leak.
I've got this one from Lidl, curious if the have them in UK too.
https://www.lidl-shop.nl/POWERFIX-Dopsleutelset/p100201670
Not exactly SnapOn but for rockercovers it will do.