no, by all means have your say. i'm not stopping you. you can say whatever you want. but if you want to talk **** then i don't understand why you're so upset about being corrected. i do not have a one sided opinion on the topic, cant you read? i already said that i agree that vapour injection is better than a mixer. the problem is that you are spewing out false and misleading facts about mixer type setups.
"a mechanic informed you that the life of the kits is around 7 years". awesome, that means it MUST be true if a mechanic told you. and i guess the compliance plate on my v6 that said the gas was installed in 1991 must been incorrect as the system lasted for 18 years only requiring a $20 gasket in the time i had it.
"if you can find a mechanic that will just give you a tune". what do you mean by they won't give you a tune? why wouldn't they give you a tune? i got a tune done on my vn at SAS automotive in somerville. if you don't believe me then find their number in the yellow pages and give them a ring. also, i already told you, my gas installer requires a service to be done every 6 months in order to keep the warranty. this costs $90 and includes a tune and i guess they give it a general check over as well.
"Average saving of $1500? You must be high". depends what do you define as average km? i would say 350km/week is average. everyone i know drives more than this anyway - but hey if you can find a real average figure then go ahead and prove me wrong, after all i am only assuming.
case study: barry drives 350km per week and his car uses 14l/100km. over a year, he drives 18,200km and uses 2,548 litres of fuel. at $1.20l, this costs him $3,057.60 a year. if he switched to gas, he would use 30% more which would equate to 18.2l/100km, or 3,312.4 litres over the year, although gas costs 50c/l. in total, this would cost him $1,656.20 a year. this means that barry would save $1401.40 a year.
but yeah, i guess i am high because i didn't take into account the servicing cost of $180/year which brings the saving down to $1,221.40.
i drive 30,000kms a year and my v8 uses a more than the example figures i posted above, which is why lpg is especially good for thirsty vehicles. the more petrol you use the more you save...
just because you had a bad experience with an impco mixer system, it does not mean that every mixer system in the world is bad and that i must be lying when i say i've had nothing but good experiences. i've had problems with holdens in general but i don't go around talking **** telling people not to buy them because all of the various things that go wrong with everyone's commodores and that they would spend more money than they would save if they just didn't buy a commodore at all and just caught the bus. at the end of the day, you can't tell me that your precious vapour injection system won't have components fail as it gets older as well. most people aren't going to keep their cars more than 5 years so in that timeframe i can't see the extra outlay for vapour actually providing any benefit.
