LPG conversion-so much gas.... Review on Converting Petrol Car to LPG

While the use of LPG as a fuel in automobiles was legalised by the Govt. and LPG      dispensers have even come up at few petrol stations in New Delhi, there is no availability of specially built gas tanks for different cars. As a result the consumers are forced to use the domestic cylinders which are not only unwieldy and unsafe but are also illegal as per the Motor Vehicle Act and possibly the Explosives Act also. I have experienced problems with the police thrice on this account because I was driving a Contessa fitted with an LPG kit and a domestic cylinder. The kit would give out obnoxious fumes alaos and the pipe had to be replaced twice.

The need of the hour is fabrication of top quality gas tanks shaped to fit the contours of the body panels of the cars for which they are designed so that they could be retrofitted and also vaialble as original equipment. Only then will the true potential of the LPG as an automobile fuel be realised. This is of utmost importance for a country like India where repeated discoveries of huge gas  reserves is likely to result in a glut of gas in the years to come. The same als can not be said for liquid fuels from which petrol and diesel are derived.