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Quote: Originally Posted by MartinH32 (original)

You only need to use unleaded in an engine to preserve the valves. However, mini's don't suffer from soft valve seats so not an issue. In addition the car always starts on unleaded and with the stop / start function again starts on unleaded before switching to gas.

I don't have a whole in the car itself, I have a hole in the bumper, so if I decide to take the conversion out, its only a replacement bumper.

I did consider the diesel, but for the same cost as a gallon of diesel I can travel over 80 miles.

A couple of things to add here. As pointed out a gas converted car always starts on unleaded, so there is no need to use a tank of unleaded every other fill up. I never did in any of my LPG cars. As far as I'm aware this was true for older cars, modern cars don't need it, but I may be wrong. An interesting point raised about the stop/start function though. In town the unleaded consumption could be far higher than a normal LPG converted car, somewhat defeating the object. But this is probably minimal.

As for cutting holes in the body there is no need. The filler can be fitted into the bumper, or if you want below it so it's even less obtrusive. I even know one guy that had it fitted behind his number plate, and fitted a plate on hinges.

The switch/gas guage varies from one conversion to the next but none of mine have ever been obviously different to anything OEM. Usually quite discreet.