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• Running diesels on Gas (Update) 14 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  Following on from previous questions about using LPG in diesel engines I saw the following today in 'Professional Engineering'. Referes to natural gas, but there are obvious parallels. 'Engineers at Ford's Dunton Engineering Centre are evaluating a prototype Ford Focus believed
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  What's the road tax for alternatively-fuelled vehicles in 2021? 9 Mar 2021 (Ask HJ)
  Please clarify if the following applies to all vehicles using alternative fuels or just those registered within specific years: 'Alternative fuelled vehicles,...
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  The government should now launch a diesel scrappage scheme to get ALL diesels off the road? 24 Nov 2015 (Ask HJ)
  Based on the results from last night's BBC Panorama programme re the emissions scandal of Volkswagen group, the Government should now launch a diesel scrappage...
• 1.2 VW Polo - Hire Car Misfuelling Incident 27 May 2013 (Forum)
  it could be used 24 hours.There were 3 pumps at this garage, one marked 'Diesel', one 'Gasoleo' and the other 'LPG'. Knowing that the hire car ran on unleaded, I stupidly assumed that if one pump said diesel and one LPG, then the Gasoleo pump must be unleaded. The pump nozzle
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  Best of the breed 12 Dec 2009 (Ask HJ)
  No 1 daughter is due to produce No 1 grandchild the turn of the year and we are looking for a four/five door replacement for the reliable 12 year old Toyota...
• Opel Omega 2.0 8v - Engine Performance Problem 13 Dec 2020 (Forum)
  , and there is not a problem about MAF sensor. Just knocking and o2 fault codes due LPG system on my car, he says.  The thing i want to ask is, what should i change? I can replace MAF sensor, but original Bosch one is really expensive (price is almost 2 times of my monthly income). I can buy chinese MAF sensor
• Honda Civic or Skoda Fabia - Fabia Estate ('08ish) or '05 Civic? can't decide 5 Oct 2010 (Forum)
  .(even though it burns LPG, it only gets 23mpg when doing so) Any thoughts welcomed.
• Vauxhall Astra G Petrol (1998 - 2004) - 03 Worn brake discs & drums - service limitations? 21 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  Manufacturer: Vauxhall. Model: Astra. Type: Estate. Fuel: Dual fuel - LPG/Petrol. Trim: Elegance. Engine: 1600cc. Registered: 2003. Mileage: 50k. Just had the car inspected and given a full service by a Vauxhall dealership. When I gave them the car (bearing in mind I have just purchsed it) I
• How much is my car worth....opinions? 1 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  interior Laser red paintwork (not faded) LPG CONVERTED 128000 miles with lots of previous MOTs. The car has had 4 previous owners (one bloke from 1984 to 1986, another from 1986-2002 (father) when he passed away it became sons (2002-2004) then he passed it onto his brother 2004-2005. I then purchased
• MPG wanted for 4-6k. 29 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  . Opinions please?? I've also have looked at Rover 200/400 diesels with less mileage. Also considered an ex fleet dual fuel(LPG) Vauxhall but dont know enough about oncosts of servicing/problems etc. No where seems to talk about them. Again opinions please. So there you have it - I need recommendations
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  I bought a used van privately but wasn't told of faults with it - where do I stand? 19 Jun 2018 (Ask HJ)
  I purchased a 2008 van five weeks ago from a private seller. I checked the MoT history online before buying and it had an immaculate record, without any...
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  Can you recommend a sporty estate for my wife's business and a mid-engined sports car for me? 21 Jan 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I have been struggling to find a balance of cars in our garage. Our current cars are a 12-year-old Range Rover converted to LPG and a modified 55 plate...
• Vauxhall Astra H Sporthatch (2005 - ) - 2006 1.6 Engine Cutting out 9 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  Hopefully someone can help me. I recently bought a Astra Sportshatch 1.6 Sxi with LPG conversion, ever since buying the vehicle I have been having two problems which are as follows. 1) The car starts fine from cold but in the first 5 - 10 minutes of driving it when breaking and coming
• Rover - P6 3500 / 3500S 7 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  as economical as possible (my stock 3500S with 2 SU carbs did 29mpg on a really long motorway run) - would fitting EFI be worth doing? Can one fit an ECU? Would an ECU be worth having? I wonder about using an SD1 Vitesse engine with the EFI, but I'm not sure. Help! I'm not going down the LPG route, by the way.
• Vectra cut out / stall at speed. 3 Mar 2006 (Forum)
  on LPG it runs smoothly. I called out the RAC and half hour later when chap arrived restarted the engine, and no engine light, he checked the engine etc and tried to replicate fault - nothing! I persuaded him to plug up his fault reader, and it did read faults: injectors 1-4 voltage high
• TOYOTA CAMRY 2.4 VVTI PETROL YR 2002 - Poor starting of Toyota Camry 2.4 VVTI (Year 2002) 30 Jul 2018 (Forum)
  so should be ok. Steve Pearl, Toyota Mechanic's Assistant Anything else you want the mechanic to know before I connect you? You Sometime ago the valves were checked - but they were fine with regards to the tolerances. Fuel economy fine. I would say it runs on LPG
• Skoda Octavia vRS - Help me decide which car to get next year. 16 Feb 2017 (Forum)
  Octavia VRS converted to run on LPG. So I'm looking for something similar, I do roughly 10,000 miles a year and do quite a few short journeys so I would guess this rules out diesels? Although I had a 110bhp Golf diesel and never really ran into any issues with that. Which is a shame as a reasonably
• Volkswagen Touran II (2010 - ) - I'm buying a Touran! 11 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  (old) thread that I'm selling my 2001 520 LPG, for info. I've also had a look at the clubtouran forum but I guess they all love theirs thanks everyone valmiki
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  We need a large MPV, but do low mileage - what do you recommend? 1 Jan 2018 (Ask HJ)
  We have four children and are struggling with our Citroen C4 Grand Picasso. We need a secondhand replacement with space and a decent boot, so very few...
• BMW X3 - Family Car 2 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  of Monmouthshire so likely to get a fair bit of snow. I assume we can get past that with snow socks or winter tyres? Better fuel efficiency would be nice as the C Class is a bit of a gas guzzler. We would definitely consider converting to LPG also so a larger boot