LPG Commodore

[IIV8II]

Does anybody either own or drive (company car) a VZ V6 factory LPG Commodore? Comments?

[mmciau]

IIV8II

Thanks for raising the thread. I eagerly await any responses too


Mike

[seedyrom]

slightly off topic, but the wifes BF fowlcan is gas. i wouldn't recommend it. the inline 6 is unresponsive, badly tuned (sometimes surges) and basically down on performance.
Getting gas is a pain, when they jam the gas bowser between two normal ones, so you have to wait for both to become available. and with the fords the gas tank is in the spare wheel w ll, meaning the spare sits in your boot. we now cant fit the baby's stroller in. nice work ford.

[Falcon Freak]

slightly off topic, but the wifes BF fowlcan is gas. i wouldn't recommend it. the inline 6 is unresponsive, badly tuned (sometimes surges) and basically down on performance.

That is due to bad calibration by Ford as they haven't paid much attention to the dedicated LPG engine until recently. But that is now changing.


Getting gas is a pain, when they jam the gas bowser between two normal ones, so you have to wait for both to become available.

Ford has no control over this. So any LPG powered car would suffer the same problem. You can't criticise the BF for this.


and with the fords the gas tank is in the spare wheel w ll, meaning the spare sits in your boot. we now cant fit the baby's stroller in. nice work ford.

Have you tried to fit a baby stroller in a duel fuel VZ Commodore? The BF with e-gas has more boot space than the duel fuel VZ (albeit shallower than the Commodore).

You haven't mentioned the money you are saving on fuel bills. So it isn't all bad news. The fact that Ford is building at least 70 e-gas cars a day means that they can't be that bad.

FF

[O5BRKY]

You learn to live with the loss of boot/cargo space, LPG is good:thumbsup:

[V8R]

buy a ute, no loss of boot space there ;)

[IIV8II]

IIV8II

Thanks for raising the thread. I eagerly await any responses too


Mike
do I detect a hint of :jester: ?

I'm serious!!

[mmciau]

do I detect a hint of :jester: ?

I'm serious!!

I'm serious too

I have a DF VS S2 Acclaim that is approaching 10 years old (160K Km)and I'm looking at DF VZ and if Holden are going to diesel too

I think Holden missed badly by delaying the DF VZ.

Information in Adelaide is that the Fleet SA will only buy DF or dedicated LPG cars from start of 2006 so Holden were being seriuosly compromised in government sales.

The "last" of the VY DF are starting to come through the SA Gov Auctions now and they are fetching better than 3 K over the petrols. http://www.auctions.sa.gov.au/


Mike

[llucie]

I'm serious too

I have a DF VS S2 Acclaim that is approaching 10 years old (160K Km)and I'm looking at DF VZ and if Holden are going to diesel too

I think Holden missed badly by delaying the DF VZ.

Information in Adelaide is that the Fleet SA will only buy DF or dedicated LPG cars from start of 2006 so Holden were being seriously compromised in government sales.

The "last" of the VY DF are starting to come through the SA Gov Auctions now and they are fetching better than 3 K over the petrols. http://www.auctions.sa.gov.au/
MikeInteresting re fleet sales , Queensland Government fleet are being replaced with 4 cylinder vehicles and departments where a larger vehicle is required will have the option of a dedicated gas 6 cyl , no more V8s in the fleet (except for police vehicles) - apparently the Govt fuel bill has sent shivers thru the treasury . It will be a windfall for the new Camry .