Found this in the archives. Not sure if they're still in business or not. www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=91...1
Decent and capable they may be but "LPGA approved" doesn't mean anything in the LPG world. likewise "Not LPGA appoved" also doesn't mean anything.
Both groups can have good, excellent and bad fitters.
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Decent and capable they may be but "LPGA approved" doesn't mean anything in the LPG world. likewise "Not LPGA appoved" also doesn't mean anything. Both groups can have good, excellent and bad fitters. --- was kev_is_here
It means a lot to your insurance company. I converted a Jeep once and they'd only entertain a properly certified installation.
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Thanks everbody, if you can stand the boredom here is the latest. I am an engineer so plugs, leads, air leaks etc had all been investigated. Thanks anyway. Monday I took it to a specialist who had a diagnostic. He said the settings were all over the place, reset everything, and we took it on a short test drive connected to the laptop, all was fine. It lasted untill I'd paid the bill, got 2 miles from home, then packed up. Its obviously gas starvation, and Im guessing that the gas ECU itself may be at fault, otherwise how did the settings come to be wrong anyway, (its been running OK for 3 years after all) Does seem to tie in with unit getting hot from engine etc. The only other reasonable suggestion has been a split diaphram in the evaporator, but if that was the fault then surely it would not run at all. Anyway back to the specialist next week. Thanks for the suggestions.
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It means a lot to your insurance company. I converted a Jeep once and they'd only entertain a properly certified installation.
You still get a certificate from whoever installs it.
If the insurers want an LPGA cert....
First Argue with your insurance company that if you have a certificate of installation certifying that it is in accordance with LPGA COP11 then that should be good enough for them. Because trading laws require that it is what it says it is.
If they still have their head up their backside, go to a different insurer. If you don't want to change insurer then pay 50 quid to an lpga guy to check it and give you a cert. Which they will do, but this is where it gets stupid, because under LPGA rules a fitter has to have undergone training (yeah right!) on a certain system e.g. 'Millenium' in order to be able to install that system. In other words that fitter can't install a 'Ricardo' system under the LPGA scheme. But many of them do install different systems without retraining, and many of them will issue certs for systems they have checked but not fitted (for insurance purposes) and those systems will more often than not be ones they are not certified to fit.
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Which? magazine did a survey of lpg conversions. There were many with problems but none from LPGA-approved installers. Their advice? Stick to LPGA, you might be fine elsewhere but why take the risk?
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Well they obviously didn't come to the one I know of who has made some dangerous errors. and just getting one conversion done isn't a very good sample.
I would like to read the report though, can you tell where you saw it, what mag & issue?
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