I use AutoAid, and have done so for a few years now - can't fault them at all. Used them twice so far - both times I was recovered within 45min and taken to garage of my choice and then dropped home afterwards. Once they'd received my paper work to reclaim the costs, I got a cheque within 5 working days! All for the price of £29 per year!

>I have an FM radio in every room in the house (except those small rooms!!)

You are a mere amateur.

Recently bought a Roberts DAB radio and I'm very pleased with it. Audible Radio 5 is good, as is Radio 7. It also has lines in/out, so I can play mp3s (mostly speech podcasts) while in the kitchen. I wouldn't use it for classical music though as the sound isn't good enough.

"If you want LPG then you have to get a factory fitted job. If you have a car converted you *will* get agro. If it hasnt happened yet its just about to.

Why anyone in the UK want LPG is beyond me. There is no LPG pump within 15 miles of where I live.

LPG in the UK is dead technology."

What rubbish, I ran on LPG for about 4 years - over 150,000 miles in an Omega, converted aftermarket, no trouble at all. I could drive 700 miles on 26 pounds of LPG (113 litres).

In town the mpg would be nearly double and I would get on average 380miles out of 113litres. But the same would be the case on petrol..... motorway 36mpg, town 21mpg. The big difference was that petrol was more than 3 times the price.

Let's work it out shall we
150,000 miles @ 21 mpg = 7142 gallons = £24,353 ( at 75p/litre)
150,000 miles @ 18 mpg = 8333 gall = £8713 ( at 23p litre)

I saved £15,640 over the time I used LPG, The conversion cost me £1,250 Net gain = £14,390

So would you be willing to travel 15 miles once a week to fill up your LPG so that by the end of the year you will save £4k - £5,000? I was willing and I combined the journey to the LPG filling station with my weekly visit to my parents house, it all worked out nicely.

Having said that, a lot depends on the person converting your car (I used the best in the area) there is no point skimping on an LPG conversion. Also you have to find who the best is (not an easy thing to do unless you have contacts, I was in the taxi trade so it was easy.

Also there is no point having LPG unless you have medium to high fuel costs each year, if you have an economic mini car and just go to the supermarket or a short drive to work and back, LPG is not going to be much use to you.

Also there is the Budget recent increase in LPG. Before any conversion you have to be aware of all the current prices to see how long it will take to get your money back. Doing it to save on the congestion charge doesn't strike me as worthwhile but you could save 5 pounds a day 25 - 30 pounds a week - so maybe? Then there are the conditions of exemption, I'd have thought only powershift granted vehicles would be exempt from congestion charges ???

The powershift grant scheme (that's what it was called I think) was in essence a waste of money. You could get a good conversion done for £1000 - £1200 but if you wanted the £5 road tax discount you had to have a powershift grant approved converted car, which cost £2,500 - £3,000 to convert and you would get about £1,000 discounted off that price, there was also other conditions like the car had to be less than one year old, etc etc. The whole thing was just a scam from start to finish.

Vauxhall does sell cars from new as dual fuel, but the "factory fitted" jargon is a myth, they are converted (or used to be) by approved powershift converters not by the vauxhall factory. And just as in any business you get cowboys, being "approved for powershift" does not mean the guy is any good at converting LPG cars, it's very easy to set yourself up as long as you have enough money to buy your way through the courses and testing fees, You have to submit a vehicle for inspection. The fee for the inspection is over £1,000 (per vehicle) You have to do this for each and every vehicle model you intend to offer your services for under the powershift scheme (omega, astra, avensis etc etc etc) so it can be very costly indeed to set yourself up as "approved" but if you have the money it can be done (or could be - not sure if the scheme is still running)???

LPG is most certainly **not** dead in the UK for those people who have high fuel costs.

This morning, 9am, heavy rain and slight fog on M8. Constant stream of cars with either no headlights or just side lights on.

And then people complain when the govt or car makers introduce technology or legislation that makes decisions like this away from the driver?

Just a note that if you drive a silver car in these conditions, you pretty much become invisible!!

Headlights are going over the top(some-quite literally!),especially the huge glass/plastic lens area.I am sure the cost of replacement will go up as the size increases.