Hi all, just noticed that Skoda Germany are now supplying Octavias capable of running on LPG as of yesterday. It can be driven with LPG or petrol. I haven't heard anything yet from the UK market though.

Bout time!

That's something I'd really loke to see, so long as it doesn't impact on the boot space.

EDIT: Just looked on skoda.de and it seems the LPG tank is in the spare wheel well.

Edited 3 September, 200916 yr by BillScarab

Yeh, it goes in the space of the spare wheel.

It is not available to order with a tow bar for some strange reason though.:confused:

My Brother in law in the midlands does gas conversions mainly on Range Rovers. Your looking at a couple of grand on one of those, so you will have to do a lot of miles to get your money back.

It will only be the 1.6 petrol (102bhp)

Yeh, it goes in the space of the spare wheel.

It is not available to order with a tow bar for some strange reason though.:confused:

In a rear ender, the towbar could pierce the tank

My Brother in law in the midlands does gas conversions mainly on Range Rovers. Your looking at a couple of grand on one of those, so you will have to do a lot of miles to get your money back.

But as LPG is over 1/2 petrol, surely not that many?

Although LPG is about 1/2 the price of unleaded most people don't seem to get the same mileage from the gas as they do with unleaded. I'm not sure what the gas conversions do for the resale value either.

I used to run an LPG Astra (2006 SRi) estate. Official Vauxhall conversion (by Millbrook I believe).

Although the tank fitted in the spare wheel well, the spare then ended up in the boot, meanig the estate aspect of it was kind of useless.

I used to get 36 MPG average on petrol which was there or thereabouts for the official combined figure but only used to get 25MPG on gas. No real difference in performance though.

All the gauges eg fuel and trip used to read wrong as the level sensor in the tank was rubbish. Used to have calculate the MPG and range from the tank and experience as it used to say empty at half tank.

This means your actual reduction in cost is about 28% percent not 50%.

We have always had 3 vehicles on our company fleet running LPG and, it seems, if you run on LPG for most of their life, the top end of the engine seems to give out at about 150K miles.

2 newest cars are now diesel with 1 more LPG left to swap out.

One point to consider is that if you plan to take your car abroad to the EU mainland, you have to check with ferry companies & Channel Tunnel operator if you can take an LPG powered car on to either a ferry or Shuttle, I know you cannot take a LPG powered car onto ET's Folkestone - Calais car shuttles, although that may change.

One of my customers near Bournemouth had a couple of petrol Mk1 Octy estates running LPG and both of them had the heads changed between 80 - 100k.

I'm still not totally convinced on the benefits of LPG. Looks good on paper, but in reality it doesn't seem as good.

Jury's out for me as well. Something's definitely not "right" about it and you don't get the savings that you think you do in real world driving.

what really would be good is bio-fuel E85, like Ford/Volvo and Saab do. Like a normal car but when you can get E85 just put it... and car does the changes and E85 in few places in the uk where you can get is about 50p per L.

James.

Although LPG is about 1/2 the price of unleaded most people don't seem to get the same mileage from the gas as they do with unleaded. I'm not sure what the gas conversions do for the resale value either.

The combined MPG quoted in petrol mode is 7.1L.

The combined MPG quoted in LPG mode is 9.2L.

I would imagine that it wouldn't hold the whole of the difference in value of a new engine, just like the diesel, but like the diesel, I would say the engine would however have a higher value than the base petrol model it is based on.

Unlike normal LPG conversions, this is covered by the full warranty from Skoda.

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