Bought one of our cars in 1992. Will never sell it.

Interesting choice for LPG cnversion. I was tempted with the 4 cylinder but rejected. Maybe better with the 6.

The 4 pots appear to suffer CHG issues more than the 6's, obviously i checked carefully for evidence before doing the conversion, i hope it doesn't blow a gasket, seeing just how difficult the spark plugs were to do it would definately be an engine out job, we'll see how she fares.

Interestingly the chap who did ours (Burford, Tenbury Wells) had a really nice anonymous looking 07 Imprezza 2.5 STi in for conversion when we dropped it off, and i ran into a chap with a Forester at the LPG filling station just after we picked the car up afterwards that had been converted by the same bloke, seem to be a lot of Scoobies running LPG and the chap who did ours is doing a lot of them.

Would highly recommend the 6 pot if ours is anything to go by, sitting on nice simple 60 aspect tyres too, comfy and relatively cheap for proper rubber.

H6 chain cam too.

By the way folks, The Wheel Clinic at Northampton did an excellent job of the original Subaru wheels, superb tough powder coating finish, better than i expected considering just how scabby they were previously, will use them again.

Will drop HJ's site an email to add to the good garage guide.

Edited by gordonbennet on 06/05/2014 at 17:07

Or you can fork out and get the Iridiums which last 60000.

NGK Platinums here Corax, and they were £8 apiece, Iridiums were just silly money, and you can get special versions for LPG conversions now made out of unobtanium, need to be a footballer or a politician with limitless unchecked expenses to afford those.

Are the Foz ones as hard to fit? i've got dozens of little cuts all over the backs of me mitts, sting like hell still two days later.

Edited by gordonbennet on 06/05/2014 at 19:24

My back isn't great and bending over engine bays doesn't help.

Pfft.

Back no excuse for this job so get to it..;) my back's probably worse than yours anyway, i'm a worn out old frat....all done from underneath lying flat out on an old rug.

-:)

Two Audi's in this household, a 53 plate A3 8P 1.6 Sport (purchased 2008) and a 52 plate A4 Avant 1.9 PD (2010). Neither have clocked 100k yet and reliability assumed no plans to get rid, paid less than £6k for each one.

In my naive younger years I have made the mistake of wasting tens of thousands of £'s on a multitude of new cars and have taken the hit at trade in time, won't get fooled again!

Edited by A3 A4 on 07/05/2014 at 01:02

Another Almera, but a 2.2 diesel. Bought new in January 2004. Has had 1 battery, 1 starter motor, 1 pair of front coil springs after 1 of them broke.

Only about 65,000 miles as it's our second car these days and for the last 4 years it hardly ever goes goes further than the 4 miles each way to work.