LT - which engine?

Well, our Bay is finally sold and although we're not looking to replace it immediatly, we are certainly looking to replace it with an LT camper, possibly from Germany. Question is, which engine should we go for?

Ideally we'd like the Turbo Diesel engine but I think they're a bit out of our price range.There's quite a few 2.4 litre non-Turbo 6-cylinder Diesel campers in Germany are these ok?

I'm assuming a petrol-engined LT is a really stupid idea given the weight of the LT but is that correct?

Anything else I should know?

(I do know about avoiding the pre-1979 2.7 4-cylinder Perkins Diesel engines though!)

marmalade wrote: We got the 2.4 6 cylinder and it pulls up any hill, slow but sure, been over pass of cattle to Applecross (highest road in Britain). Cruises ok on the motorways at about 65mphish, we pass the odd truck, and not too thirsty Sheffield to Brighton for less than £40.

Cheers!

I worked out it's roughly 230 miles from Sheffield to Brighton. £40 gets you about 42 litres or 9.25 gallons. So 230 divided by 9.25 = approx 25 miles per gallon - not bad at all considering the average Bay does that!

AndyVan wrote: ....Had a 2.4D last year was as you say not the fastest thing but pretty good economy wise...you shouldnt drive em for long periods over 65mph anyway apparently!!....got a 2.4TD LWB p/van now it does 28-30mpg which I find amazing....nippy too!!!...weell a bit quicker!!!... ..petrol ones do about 15-17 apparently...LPG would be the way to go there I think!!..

Thanks Andy!

I was curious about petrol LT miles per gallon as I've got a friend in Germany who's just informed me there's a petrol LT with full camping interior near where he works that's for sale at 600 Euros. At that price I'm not too bothered about mpg and could even factor in an LPG conversion into the budget if running it gets too expensive - not that it's gonna be a daily anyway.

moocow wrote: Hi Our 2.4 petrol does about 18mpg on a run and we worked out that getting a lpg kit in would cost so much that it would have taken about 6 years to reclaim back the cost going by fuel savings even doing 3000 miles a year at 15mpg! thats assuming the cost of lpg stay at half the cost of petrol for all that time so we are not bothering!! Have a look here http://www.biglpg.com/ at their annual fuel savings calculator   Cheers   Simon & Kirsty

Thanks for that! It's unlikely that the van would be used for a huge amount of travelling apart from one trip a year to mainland Europe and given how cheap petrol LT Campers seem to be, I really don't see an LPG conversion being justified.

One thing I did find out whilst researching LPG conversions is if you buy a huge propane bottle and refuel the van from that using an adaptor, it would work out at around 25p per litre as there's no tax. However, this would also mean that you're using an untaxed fuel which is highly illegal.

autohausdolby wrote: You can declare fuel untaxed fuel and pay the duty on it. That way you are all legal. All you have to do is say how much you've used

Of course!

Keep it all above board and legal.