Considering converting car to LPG

[Goldfynche]

After driving to Scotland and back several times a year, in a 4x4 (not recommended). I acquired a small Vauxhall van, fuelled by LPG.
Fuel at half the price, is very easy to get used to. But now, the van has been put up for sale, and I have gone back to unleaded, with my new car. So I am seriously considering having the car converted. Prices quoted vary between £800 and £1500. But I think the costs can be recouped a lot sooner than, one at first, believes.
I will be driving up to Scotland and back, twice, next month (unavoidable) But can't afford the conversion, just yet.

[Rich_]

what happened to government plans a few years ago to encourage everyone to convert to LPG and have LPG available on all garage forecourts I wonder?

[Goldfynche]

The oil companies probably convinced the government, that it wasn't in their (the oil barons) best interests, to have cheap fuel being peddled all over the country.
Happy to see that interest grows, in my eBay LPG van sale. If the sale goes well. I shall, most likely, use the proceeds to convert my new car.

[eeyore]

one thing to watch out for is that although lpg is easy to get in urban areas it is much less easy to get out in the sticks - when i was a contractor we used to run a ex army landrover 130 on lpg as a dual fuel conversion, and although it worked out very well when we could get lpg, when working in areas where is wasnt available the cost of running a V6 on petrol was enormous - eventually we said sod it and unconverted and swapped out the engine for a deisel 2.2 tdi which although more expensive per litre than either lpg or unleaded still worked out cheaper in the long run.

[Goldfynche]

One of the cheapest places I have ever found for LPG, is the Shell station on the roundabout, underneath Junc. 23 on the M6. The last time I visited there, it was 61.9 per litre. 64.9 is now the lowest I have found, in London.