LPG installer Melbourne
Submitted: Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:28
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Kata
Gday all
I was wondering if anybody recommends any LPG installers in
Melbourne or has had good service, as I am in the process of converting my V6 4runner.
Before all the comments come in about headgaskets I have had the heads done when I bought it and had them set up for LPG.
I was considering doing it obviously even before the subsity was talked about so it convinced me.
Ok interested in you r recommendations.
I am Northern Suburbs of
Melbourne
Cheers
Kata
Reply By: gqpat - Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 07:50
Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 07:50
Try lakeside auto in reservoir you will be waiting until after christmas or A1 autogas in
lilydale these are the only installersi would recommend as they do great work.
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Reply By: Bobdate - Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:01
Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:01
Kata:
I have had my 2000 NL Pajero converted by Bayswater Fleet Maintenance - good job and good price. Also had my wife's TF Magna converted by Parkmore Auto Service in Mitcham - again a good job and I know he has done a V6 Hilux because at one stage he had done his own Lux. I can recommend both
places - good prices, good service. Both jobs done in 2000 - hope they are still in business.
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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:18
Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:18
LPG 1 is about the best there is. Eric says they are the only ones he would let touch his trucks.
If you were in South East I can recommend Auto Gas Connections in Aster Ave Seaford. right next to AWiLL4x4's work, and 2 doors down from the brothel...
...gives you something to do while waiting for the car...
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Reply By: Phil.Fehlberg - Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 13:15
Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 13:15
Sorry, but I have to report a bad experience at LPGAS-1. I had a
snorkel fitted at Wombat Offroad - my regular service place - and then booked the GQ in to LPGAS-1 to get the gas equipment reset to cater for the extra air. The sympoms that I asked them to attend to were: cutting out at idle and being hard to start. I was sold their Annual Service, as the solution.
Took the Patrol in and the cutting out was reduced - not eliminated and the starting was much better. However, the idle was 1000 rpm cold and 900 warm. As part of their service, they reset the tappets and over the next few days I could smell burning oil, so I popped in to Wombat and the guys found that the rocker cover screws were only finger tight and that engine oil was dribbling down the back of
the block.
So we went back again. This time they fixed the idle (the Wombat guys had tightened the rocker cover) and told me that they knew how to fix the cutout problem - they install a balance line between the converter and the
snorkel, but did not have the time to do it that day.
So we went back again for the balance line and now all is OK.
I just get the impression that they have so much work on that the quality control is under duress.
Phil
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Follow Up By: gqpat - Saturday, Sep 02, 2006 at 14:42
Saturday, Sep 02, 2006 at 14:42
very unusual as LPG 1 and Lakeside Automotive as i have recommended before are Impco gas experts and the problem you had a balance line is usally the first thing to fit.
As truckster said and as gas fitter myself have had alot of good reports about them.
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Follow Up By: Truckster (Vic) - Saturday, Sep 02, 2006 at 16:13
Saturday, Sep 02, 2006 at 16:13
>>I just get the impression that they have so much work on that the quality control is under duress.
I think that over next 2 yrs with the desperados going LPG this will become normal.
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Follow Up By: gqpat - Sunday, Sep 03, 2006 at 19:09
Sunday, Sep 03, 2006 at 19:09
You may be right .I think all the new people doing LPG install courses will find it very hard as you require a great deal of
tools and equipment to become a qualified workshop and they will all be at the bottom of the list with suppliers of lpg parts i have worked with a lpg installer for over 10 years and we
well looked after in the current situation with our suppliers and we still have to wait weeks and months for some tanks.All the new guys will be in for a real shock.
We have had some customers come in for quotes and we are shocked at the prices they have received on some cars for conversions is outrageous these people are giving the genuine installers a bad name
one person quoted $2400 for a VH commodore
sedan 6 cyl.
And you are dead right about the new blokes or 90% of them as far as quality goes and they will convert almost any car or truck with no previous exp on which ones really shouldnt be on gas, we knock back a lot of vehicles because of backfiring problems etc and people dont understand why we do this.
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