Well I've just returned from a trip into deepest France with the caravan and family fully loaded. I can report the old girl never missed a beat;) pulled the van effortlessly and returned a constant 14 mpg on LPG and that was only 60 p per litre in Belguim but a little more in France.

On our last two days on the drive home the temps reached 41oC and it was showing 35oC on the car computer whilst driving at 60mph. The LPG kept turning off then back on again and flashing continuously. It would eventually turn off completely for a while then reboot. When we got home off the ferry in Hull it worked perfectly and has ever since.

My only conclusion is that it must have been vaporising in the heat?? Does this sound feasible ?

Apart from that roll on next year :D

Graham
 
Has anybody else experienced problems with lpg in hot conditions?

Graham
A few weeks back - 24th July - we had it baking hot.....

Took the L322 on Gas to Woburn Safari Park - got there at 11 ish and dpent the whole day between 11 and 18.00 pottering around at 5mph for an hour or so then parked for 20 minutes to have a sandwich, then off again at 5mph for an hour, stop and sandwich, back to 5mph etc etc all doy - and didn't miss a single beat - air con all day, and the outside temp was pushing 30degC all day....
 
Well I've just returned from a trip into deepest France with the caravan and family fully loaded. I can report the old girl never missed a beat;) pulled the van effortlessly and returned a constant 14 mpg on LPG and that was only 60 p per litre in Belguim but a little more in France.

On our last two days on the drive home the temps reached 41oC and it was showing 35oC on the car computer whilst driving at 60mph. The LPG kept turning off then back on again and flashing continuously. It would eventually turn off completely for a while then reboot. When we got home off the ferry in Hull it worked perfectly and has ever since.

My only conclusion is that it must have been vaporising in the heat?? Does this sound feasible ?

Apart from that roll on next year :D

Graham

Sounds like a solenoid is about to fail, they can go intermittant before ultimate failure
 
A few weeks back - 24th July - we had it baking hot.....

Took the L322 on Gas to Woburn Safari Park - got there at 11 ish and dpent the whole day between 11 and 18.00 pottering around at 5mph for an hour or so then parked for 20 minutes to have a sandwich, then off again at 5mph for an hour, stop and sandwich, back to 5mph etc etc all doy - and didn't miss a single beat - air con all day, and the outside temp was pushing 30degC all day....

At 5mph it wasn't exactly demanding a high gas flow and 30C is not that hot, we have had over 40C here recently which might have affected the ECU.
 
That's what I thought Datatek. It was fine for 2 weeks and fine as soon as we got back to England. It was only the 2 days that were 40oC that caused the issue.

Thanks for the replies.

Graham
 

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