Decisions on suitable tow vehicle.

tonyhoo
tonyhoo Forum Participant Posts: 5
edited November 2016 in Towcars & Towing #1

Hi all,

In the new year (17) I will have to choose a sturdy vehicle to tow possibly 3000+klgs of trailer and because the neccessary engine size will be thirsty I wonder if anyone has had a Nissan which was converted to dual fuel & was it a suitable conversion, (Now
because I am going to be new to this experience as I am to the CC I expect that perhaps fellow members may roll their eyes and say I should get out more)Embarassed

tony hoo

Comments

  • Settermum
    Settermum Forum Participant Posts: 127
    First Comment
    edited November 2016 #2

    Hi Tony, I suspect that you will need to give alot more information before anyone is able to give you constructive advice because yours are an unusual set of circumstances.

  • tonyhoo
    tonyhoo Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited November 2016 #3

    SmileSmileHi Settermum,

    Thanks for your comment, but I'm uncertain what other information would effect the answer.  I know that the 2.5L  Diesel Nissan can comfortably pull 3000kls, but I wonder if having fuel gas as an alternative reduces performance, and  in whixh case the usual
    economy gained makes it not worthwhile. I  also .notice plenty of vehicles filling up with Gas locally so it is I think money saving, and I'd always trust a users opinion against a garage which sells the £1500 (?) conversion.

     

  • Rushallmanor
    Rushallmanor Forum Participant Posts: 78
    edited November 2016 #4

    As I understand it there is a drop in power of around 5% when a new car is converted to run on LPG. On older cars this can go up to 10%. But as gas is around half the cost of petrol there is a saving to be had if you do enough miles. But I don't think I
    would want to tow 3000kgs with a petrol vehicle of 2T ish  with only 2.5L. I think it would be a little under powered.

  • tonyhoo
    tonyhoo Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited November 2016 #5

    HI rushallmanor, Apologies for the delay in responding.  Actually I did write a more detailed reply than this but I pressed the 'send' button & it seems to have gone into eternety. anyway thats me & IT but many thanks for your reply - most helpful. 

    tony

  • DORMAN12Q
    DORMAN12Q Forum Participant Posts: 90
    edited November 2016 #6

    If you are looking at a navara check they have stopped snapping chasing.

    A friends navara has just done a chasing ok it was a but older but the photos He showed me were bad.

    He showed me the nissan navara snapped chassis page on facebook, There were over 8000 members.

  • tonyhoo
    tonyhoo Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited November 2016 #7

    Thanks for your tip Dorman (no pun intended) I will certainly check that out... might even contact Nissan and ask for statistics under the F.O.I. ActTongue Out.

    tony

  • DORMAN12Q
    DORMAN12Q Forum Participant Posts: 90
    edited November 2016 #8

    Sorry about the spelling I have just noticed the auto correct has changed the word chassis to chasing.

    Have a search on Google apparantley it is a bad problem.

    Some of the tails are horrendous

  • tonyhoo
    tonyhoo Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited November 2016 #9

    I did wonder Dorman but got the gist - with me its always typepography..lol

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