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Why aren't all cars LPG?

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ArmaghMan

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Wednesday 19th June 2013
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moreflaps said:
ArmaghMan said:
littleredrooster said:
I can promise you that you would NOT want to have a big shunt on the motorway with an LPG car...
Absolutely....with that giant Petrol tank .
Because as everyone knows petrol is much much easier to ignite than LPG.
propane ignition temperature =470. petrol =280. Hmm now which one will ignite more easily?

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As far as I can tell petrol is much easier to ignite. If the sparks or coils are on the way out it'll show up on the gas first. In fairness I did get a lecture on why gas was harder to ignite from my engineering colleagues but to be fair didn't really follow it.
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