nakhonsi sean Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Hi I find myself needing more space than my car has and was thinking of a 940 estate. Does anyone have experience of running one of these over here? Parts servicing costs? Figured I would put a LPG system in using a donut tank in place of the spare wheel. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Wheel well isn't very big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 (edited) Wheel well isn't very big. Big enough. Lots of them running around in Europe with this conversion. Edited August 8, 2011 by nakhonsi sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Wheel well isn't very big. Big enough. Lots of them running around in Europe with this conversion. Hmmmm, interesting but it looks small. What is the mileage range of this conversion.? I miss my old 760 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Wheel well isn't very big. Big enough. Lots of them running around in Europe with this conversion. Hmmmm, interesting but it looks small. What is the mileage range of this conversion.? I miss my old 760 Not sure, probably 50-60 litre tank so would actually hold around 40-50 litres. Never had a Volvo so not to savy as to the consumption. But 95% of my driving is around town, rarely go on longer trips so not to worried about the range, if I only had 200+ km from it that would be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katabeachbum Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 as far as I know 900 was never manufactored here, but 850/V70 was. So assume in TH 850/V70 parts more easy to source at reasonable price. In addition 2,5 2 valve runs LPG for +500k km without problems. Doughnut tank in 15" sparewheel room is 30 liter netto as I recall, appox 250km. You cold alos cut out square floor making room for twin cylinders, approx 50-60 liter netto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 as far as I know 900 was never manufactored here, but 850/V70 was. So assume in TH 850/V70 parts more easy to source at reasonable price. In addition 2,5 2 valve runs LPG for +500k km without problems. Doughnut tank in 15" sparewheel room is 30 liter netto as I recall, appox 250km. You cold alos cut out square floor making room for twin cylinders, approx 50-60 liter netto Friend has a 52 litre tank in a Vios, that has 14" wheels. That fits in without any cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katabeachbum Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 as far as I know 900 was never manufactored here, but 850/V70 was. So assume in TH 850/V70 parts more easy to source at reasonable price. In addition 2,5 2 valve runs LPG for +500k km without problems. Doughnut tank in 15" sparewheel room is 30 liter netto as I recall, appox 250km. You cold alos cut out square floor making room for twin cylinders, approx 50-60 liter netto Friend has a 52 litre tank in a Vios, that has 14" wheels. That fits in without any cutting. yep, vios/yaris have very deep wells, actually raised trunk floor. so does accord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 as far as I know 900 was never manufactored here, but 850/V70 was. So assume in TH 850/V70 parts more easy to source at reasonable price. In addition 2,5 2 valve runs LPG for +500k km without problems. Doughnut tank in 15" sparewheel room is 30 liter netto as I recall, appox 250km. You cold alos cut out square floor making room for twin cylinders, approx 50-60 liter netto Friend has a 52 litre tank in a Vios, that has 14" wheels. That fits in without any cutting. yep, vios/yaris have very deep wells, actually raised trunk floor. so does accord Ahh! I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 as far as I know 900 was never manufactored here, but 850/V70 was. So assume in TH 850/V70 parts more easy to source at reasonable price. In addition 2,5 2 valve runs LPG for +500k km without problems. Doughnut tank in 15" sparewheel room is 30 liter netto as I recall, appox 250km. You cold alos cut out square floor making room for twin cylinders, approx 50-60 liter netto Friend has a 52 litre tank in a Vios, that has 14" wheels. That fits in without any cutting. yep, vios/yaris have very deep wells, actually raised trunk floor. so does accord Ahh! I see. But does not the Volvo also have a storage compartment above the spare wheel? That would allow more depth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katabeachbum Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Ahh! I see. But does not the Volvo also have a storage compartment above the spare wheel? That would allow more depth. Havent seen a Volvo trunk floor in ages, so cant remember. Can remember the V70 2,5 factory LPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Ahh! I see. But does not the Volvo also have a storage compartment above the spare wheel? That would allow more depth. Very little, perhaps 2 inches. (as l recall) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakhonsi sean Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 Small tank is fine for my needs. But, what about spares availability/cost? Was told before I had my W123 300D that it would be expensive and hard to locate parts but over the past 5years things have been cheap and plentiful. Have yet to have an unreasonable/expensive bill! Think people were scared off by the Mercedes name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 (edited) How about thinking about one of these instead. 16 seats just throw out what you don't want, and walla loads of space. Edited August 13, 2011 by Kwasaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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