What year is your P38?
Mine is a 2000 so it can be EKA unlocked by the Nanocom. Which meant that it basically paid for itself when my P38 battery went flat while it was waiting for parts at a garage. My drivers door had a failed microswitch so the only way to enter the EKA was via a Nancom.
Daily? yes..probably. It depends on your routine. Put it this way, I think they're great for what they are but I wouldn't use one as an ambulance!
Buy two and drive them every other day :)
Then when you need to fix something you can learn it once and practice with preventative maint on the other one!
oh btw,
Emissions for The Duchess this time round: CO 0% and HC 30ppm/1200ppm
Non Catalyst equipped vehicle (metered check) fuel type LPG.
I'd like to see you haul our narrowboat behind a Landy, even if you could get it onto the beach :)
Not easy to get on the plane either, to be fair!
Only if you used two surf boards :)
Ah right yes :) 47 foot canal boat. Built for comfort over speed!
(but for a canal boat she's quite nippy with a 42hp engine)
All there is to know!
https://www.kateboats.co.uk/madeleine-47-foot-5-luxury-4-berth-narrowboat/
She's what's known as a Sponsored Boat, so we paid for her to be built, own her and take a cut of the rental. It isn't a get rich quick scheme by any means, but she washes her face and we get free holidays which works out great it you like canal boats, and we do :)
Yep, the best choice is to switch off the LPG and forget about it until it's running properly on Petrol. With multipoint you're adding a new injection system on top of the existing one so any fault on petrol (apart from petrol fuel pressure, I guess) is going to affect the LPG side. Single point can mask/survive petrol side issues because it's a separate system, but it's not a great choice for a Thor as described up-thread.
Back from a week on the boat... what a lovely relaxing ride back that was. Today was one of those days that it's all worth it :) I even got to off-road for about 10 yards when pulling over to let a police car go wailing by. <smugface>
She also survived 10 days stationery without the battery going flat, which was nice.
Hmmm, my trip computer says 13mpg average!
I can get about 70 litres into the LPG tank from empty and usually get about 180 miles from it*. I think that's just the price of commuting over B roads :(
StrangeRover It sounds like it's time for a new system. If the lines are all in the right place and can be re-used it should save some time. I'm guessing your tank is getting a bit long in the tooth but if it's in the wheel well I can't imagine it needs replacing? I honestly don't give any extra for a car that has an LPG conversion. Even if it runs it's probably worn out anyway. The maths still works on a new install, it'll definitely save you money.
The arch isn't sharp and it didn't attract any attention this time round- even the front tyre got through without an advisory. It is correct that it passed as it has at least 1.6mm over 75% of the tyre but it doesn't look pretty as it's the outside edge that is worn. Maybe they're busy? :)
Apparently I have rusty coil springs on the front of my Jeep... ooh noes! :)
I have no idea. Maybe they're covering their asses for the whine from the diff?
Anyway, failed then passed -
Do not drive until repaired (dangerous defects):
Nearside Rear Exhaust fumes causing a danger to health of persons on board pipe broken off rear flange (6.1.2 (b) (ii))
Repair immediately (major defects):
Rear Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases (6.1.2 (a))
After they fixed that she got through with no advisories - which is funny as the rear arch damage was listed last year and hasn't changed :(
God no, they're fierce as hell but she's had a lot of work since last year. She did pick up an advisory for a rear wheel bearing last year which I have missed :/ I wonder if they've got a 20 ton press...
Or whether I should get one :)
Time for Man Maths!
Lets play MOT Bingo!
I'm 99% certain I'll be getting new front tyres after the curious case of the Locked Viscous... but I thought I'd lob it in and chance it. I'd rather get the tyres myself but I ran out of time after the reminder popped up on my phone. I think I'll set a month's notice next year and put it on pay day!
We had unofficial, unsanctioned, free for all mower racing at my Father's place once (he had a handy field).
It was won by the team that built a dune buggy out of two landrovers and tied a push-mover to the rear bumper :)
The only rationing that politicians will introduce is price rises. This enables them to do what they like because the tax payer foots the bill.
Tradeable carbon credits would be great in theory. Sadly they're a bastard to administer. I'd like to think we could make them work and use them to tax the greedy in favour of the (relatively static) poor.
I smell the influence of the motor trade. They don't want old vehicles passing new standards, they much prefer scrappage schemes.
I don't quite understand how it can be acceptable for the motor industry to build millions of cars per year and justify this production with a percentage reduction in tailpipe emissions.
Surely the environmental costs of construction need to be calculated and added to the tailpipe emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle to give true value for the environmental impact of car ownership. This would imply that a car that lasts longer will be less damaging.
I thought the TfL exemption had finished... I'd be glad to be proved wrong on that.
I think that the most likely outcome is that Urban areas introduce very fierce ULEV or Zero Emissions zones which can only be accessed by electric or human powered vehicles (ie Tesla/Leaf etc or bicycles, or bicycles with electric boost).
I can't see how we'll end up with enough power supplied to rural areas to make pure plug in vehicles realistic either for people commuting to town or making long journeys - but I can see Park and Ride schemes becoming the only real option if you live outside town but work there.
Out of town (where tailpipe emissions vs air quality isn't such a lethal issue) it would actually make more sense for people to run diesel than petrol as this gives lower CO2 per mile but that does create a clear urban/rural split in emissions requirements which I don't think would be supportable.
Ultimately I think that the freedom to travel that has been experienced since WW2 and the dawning of the jet age is coming to an end. Aviation is a massive source of pollution and there are no options available to power jet planes apart from simply mind bending quantities of kerosene. One day, perhaps, we'll be able to use Li-Ion powered aircraft but this has some pretty big drawbacks, one of which being the fact that a fully fuelled airliner is overweight for landing and you can't really dump batteries over the sea in the same way as you can dump jet fuel. So converting existing airframes seems like a no-go.
I heard on TV the other day that 70% of flights from the UK are made by 15% of the population. I'm assuming that's the richest 15% so it's going to be "difficult" politically to reduce air travel by significant amounts but it has to come if you accept that we need to reduce CO2 output and save the planet. I think we do, but we need all countries to sign up and we need to decimate a massive industry. Luckily that massive industry is mainly based in the USA and EU (and we sold our shares in Airbus years ago) so perhaps it won't be so hard for the UK as some others, despite being an island. We'll still have boats after all.
Back to cars.... Our V8 dinosaurs will limp on. They'll become increasingly rare on the roads and I suspect that petrol supplies will become severely curtailed as the Government pushes us towards electricity. There's going to be a difficult balance as it's not just cars but mowers, chainsaws, strimmers and all that stuff which will need to be changed over to battery power before Petrol can finally be switched off. I'm sceptical as to how green it will be to produce so many batteries, but I'm open to persuasion if a detailed audit can be done.
The big question for me personally is related to LPG. Firstly WHY isn't it being pushed as an alternative fuel? It gives an instant reduction in CO2 and other emissions compared to Petrol. Secondly, how long will it last? Because as soon as it costs as much as petrol (possibly before then) I'll be unable to afford to run my Jeep or my P38 regularly and I'll be looking for a hybrid or pure electric car just like everyone else.
Votes to ban the troll? I'm bored of him now. His noise to signal ratio is off the chart.