I Love LPG Stickers!

[ManDownUnder]

They make the mufti cops stand out a mile!

Not all mufti's have one, but nearly EVERY new holden on LPG is a mufti... in my experience anyway.

And you can spot them from behind - so easily.

Very kind of the boys in blue to point themselves out like that I think!

[Marmoot]

might be a good idea to delete this thread so they don't realise they standout then? :blah:

[ManDownUnder]

might be a good idea to delete this thread so they don't realise they standout then? :blah:

Then THEY would be breaking the law - they gotta have the stickers!!!! (No sticker - no warrtable condition = no car going on the road... naughty naughty!!!!

No warrantable condition = no ability to issue tickets...

Oh I love it when a plan falls apart!

[Marmoot]

oo.....COOL!!! :shifty:


but still be careful for that mufti Mazda 6 though :)

[ManDownUnder]

what colour is it?

Maybe there's a market for bright orange stickers... kinda like post-it notes.

Mount a pad of them on the inside of your glove and just brush one off on the mufti as you go on by (lane splitting as I am :Oops: ). That bright orange flash would make 'em stand out a bit - and let's face it, they'd last at least till they got the car back to the cop shop...


MDU

[Coldkiwi]

...and look for no tow bars... if its got a tow ball, it won't be a mufti (which SERIOUSLY cuts down the number of potential mufti vehicles you could be looking for as most commodores/falcons have them)

[curious george]

How many people have LPG? It's a shame it's all but gone, it seemed to have some real advantages. Or do people who were driving at the height of it's popularity beg to differ?

[Morepower]

How many people have LPG? It's a shame it's all but gone, it seemed to have some real advantages. Or do people who were driving at the height of it's popularity beg to differ?
A good fuel but unless you dedicated a car to run on it you never got the full benefit. LPG was around 100 octane so could handle a more agressive spark advance . Dedicated vehicles would make more HP that thier petrol counterparts. Duel fuel was always a compromise and the extra fuel consumption made savings small.

Dave

[dangerous]

How many people have LPG? It's a shame it's all but gone, it seemed to have some real advantages. Or do people who were driving at the height of it's popularity beg to differ?

LPG?? good shit...... I had a CF230 bedie back in the early 90's and it loved the stuff also a 253 Commodore in Oz it cost $17 to fill the V8 tank and ya cant beat that aye.

I've got no idea why it seems to have dissapaired, when it came out and you lot up there were into the CNG there were a lot of folk that thought it was dangerous........ a tank of petrol will puncture before a tank of LPG but ya cant explain that to some. And then there were the stories of big hp loss.... na not if you tuned the engine to gas run it a little rich and its a humming.
Both my cars prefured the LPG and bolloks to having ta run a tank of prtrol to every 2 of LPG

[madandy]

Knew a guy with a V8 Range Rover that always ran LPG off road.He was a mechanic and tuned it to love the LPG.He swore it pulled better(more torque) on the steep hills and in the mud...Also turbos can run more boost on gas than petrol.
Must be more efficient if the fuzz are using it, now.

[MikeL]

About the time LPG was being promoted in NZ there were some high-profile accidents overseas that made NZers a bit wary. I remember seeing some horrific pictures of the results of an LPG tanker overturning and incinerating hundreds of people in a Spanish camping ground. But I think the main reason was economics. Unless you were doing very high mileages it took a long time to recover the cost of conversion.

As for the LPG patrol cars, my experience has been that by the time you get close enough to see the sticker, it's probably too late!

[spudchucka]

They make the mufti cops stand out a mile!

Not all mufti's have one, but nearly EVERY new holden on LPG is a mufti... in my experience anyway.

And you can spot them from behind - so easily.

Very kind of the boys in blue to point themselves out like that I think!
Not ot mention the plethora of aerials attached, the crappy standard wheels and the little lights on the parcel tray. Should be no excuses at all if you get caught by one, seeing as they stand out so nicely.

[matthewt]

Not ot mention the plethora of aerials attached, the crappy standard wheels and the little lights on the parcel tray. Should be no excuses at all if you get caught by one, seeing as they stand out so nicely.

The two lights on the parcel try are what I always look for when heading into wellington. Saved me from blasting past at least two.

[marty]

i'm just in the process of converting my telstar to lpg, as i'll be doing 1000km a week soon. got an old impco kit off the old man, replaced the gaskets and tidied it up, 80 litre tank, tested for $100, new hoses $50. all up should cost about $200 fitted. i'll be running it on a dedicated lpg carb. i'm getting 40mpg on petrol now, so it'll be interesting to see what i get out of the lpg - i'm hoping for 50mpg equivalent - saving me about $7 a day. that'll pay for insurance and 2 rear tyres a year on a 'busa.......

[marty]

new policy will see all of the north island highway patrol mufti cars working in the same district for a period of time (say 6 weeks) then moving en-masse to the next one. i'm trying to find out where they are at the moment. there are XR6's, Maximas, Mazda 6's, and others.

there will be NO grace given by these guys when they are in your patch.

[FROSTY]

i used to love lpg-- i had an old telstar running on it. ya just had to laugh when people paid for their petrol

[madandy]

new policy will see all of the north island highway patrol mufti cars working in the same district for a period of time (say 6 weeks) then moving en-masse to the next one. i'm trying to find out where they are at the moment. there are XR6's, Maximas, Mazda 6's, and others.

there will be NO grace given by these guys when they are in your patch.

Thats pretty bloody scary :sick:

[Lou Girardin]

there will be NO grace given by these guys when they are in your patch.

Situation normal then?

BTW, all the traffic muftis I've seen around here don't have LPG stickers and look like any normal Falcadore, apart from lights, aerial etc.

[Devil]

Situation normal then?

BTW, all the traffic muftis I've seen around here don't have LPG stickers and look like any normal Falcadore, apart from lights, aerial etc.
Yeah dude, but he's meaning if it DOES have an LPG sticker, its highly likely to be the fuzz.
Personally I think I may have only seen one with an LPG sticker.

[duckman]

Um the Mazda 6 was red ..... :mad:

[Devil]

Um the Mazda 6 was red ..... :mad:
Yer, candy apple metallic red IIRC.

EDIT: Inadvertantly wrote 'metallica'. hmmmm.

[ManDownUnder]

new policy will see all of the north island highway patrol mufti cars working in the same district for a period of time (say 6 weeks) then moving en-masse to the next one. i'm trying to find out where they are at the moment. there are XR6's, Maximas, Mazda 6's, and others.

there will be NO grace given by these guys when they are in your patch.

So would keeping a tab on them and posting their whereabouts in here be illegal (what was the charge they do you on for flashing your lights to warn of a cop... interefering with revenue collecting or something???)

Course it could just be a fun thing to do ...

[ManDownUnder]

ok to summarise then... the standout features on a mufti car would be

*LPG stickers on New Holdens
*No tow bar on Commodores and Falcons
*Arials en masse on the car
*Lights on parcel tray (I use that one too- works well once you know what to look for)

Optional bright orange post-it note type sticker plastered somewhere on the back of the car (assuming my idea ever caught on...

BUT - beware the merciless flying squad! (Anyone here remember the Python skits involving Spanish Inquisition - why did that just come to mind???)

MDU

[Coldkiwi]

BUT - beware the merciless flying squad! (Anyone here remember the Python skits involving Spanish Inquisition - why did that just come to mind???)

MDU

NO BODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!

now... if only my bike actually had a comfy chair :love:

[Cajun]

what you getting lazy coldkiwi.

If you want a comfy chair get a bmw or a goldwing

[scroter]

take care with them all they cna now detect vehicles behind them without turning around.

[ManDownUnder]

take care with them all they cna now detect vehicles behind them without turning around.

I do hope you are talking about speed detection of vehicles, and not just using their mirrors...

[bungbung]

Steel Wheels can be another giveaway. No good from the front of back obviously.

[Marmoot]

Um the Mazda 6 was red ..... :mad:

There is a silver one on SH16 (NW mway). Only found out because it had its disco light turned on. Otherwise I would've never known.

[johno]

NO BODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!

now... if only my bike actually had a comfy chair :love:

Oh No! Not the comfy chair!
There are two the main reasons............

[speedpro]

A good fuel but unless you dedicated a car to run on it you never got the full benefit. LPG was around 100 octane so could handle a more agressive spark advance . Dedicated vehicles would make more HP that thier petrol counterparts. Duel fuel was always a compromise and the extra fuel consumption made savings small.

Dave
I did the dual fuel thing on my 173 Holden powered HiAce and it made 2 horsepower more than on 96 petrol. Great fuel, ran sweet from the moment you started it and clean as a whistle. Good job the government has wasted such an excellent portable fuel generating electricity.

[yessum]

*LPG stickers on New Holdens
*No tow bar on Commodores and Falcons
*Arials en masse on the car
*Lights on parcel tray

*steel wheels (have seen alloys, but never wheel trims)
*they are voluntarily driving at or just under the limit ;)

[LB]

I never seem to see the lights on the parcel tray till it's too late. They're very small and sometimes the reflection on the glass means you can't see in anyway.

They also have small red/blue lights in behind the front grilles.

[LB]

BUT - beware the merciless flying squad! (Anyone here remember the Python skits involving Spanish Inquisition - why did that just come to mind???)

MDU
MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

They were/are just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Yes, I remember (vaguely!) the SI - was that with the nuns in line falling into the swimming pool?

Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.......

[ManDownUnder]

MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

They were/are just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Yes, I remember (vaguely!) the SI - was that with the nuns in line falling into the swimming pool?

Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.......

:Offtopic:

ALBATROSS!!!!!!!

(as kids all going out on a gaggle... off to get a pizza or go bowling or whatever young innocent people do... a good friend of mine and I used to scream that out - basically to find where the other one was, who would reply in kind whereupon we would complete the skit much to everyone else's confusion, and proceed on to sing sing the philosopher's song or similar...).

Emmanuel Kang was a reall pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under tha table...

aaaaaaaa the good ol' days :-)

:Offtopic:

[ManDownUnder]

*steel wheels (have seen alloys, but never wheel trims)
*they are voluntarily driving at or just under the limit ;)

What do you think the reaction would be to drive nice and slow in FRONT of a cop?

Something like
1) follow the cop at a set distance getting a good reading of the speed they are doing (i.e. 95 kph)
2) SLOWLY pass the cop, do about 104 kph - just ease on past
3) slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

I wonder if it would annoy the stuffing out of them for doing the same thing they were? And which rules would it break - which they were not breaking already.

Perhaps slow to 93kph? :moon: :Police:

[marty]

there are heaps of mufti cars out there. the silver mufti on the NW could easily have been a CIU/CIB/enquiry car. the HP cars though, are the ones that will be out on the highways. there are a couple of lpg ones that i know of, but they tend to be admin ones that are occasionally used for enforcment - the HP inspector (tooman) in hamilton has a black VY executive with acclaim alloys fitted. it is on lpg, is fitted with a stalker, and after it gets fixed (it was rammed by a stolen car) it will be back on the road. it tends to be used for enforcment on the weekends.

[Ghost Lemur]

:Offtopic:
Emmanuel Kang was a reall pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under tha table...


[joins sing-a-long]

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

:D

Could be worse I suppose you could have started singing "Sit on my face" then we really would have been in trouble. Or worse yet "Evert sperm is Sacred", then we would have had the fear of God (Zed) coming down on us. :killingme

[jrandom]

MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

Beau'iful pluuuumage, the Norwegian Blue.

Also, it would work well when threads stopped moving on account of people being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

By the way - since I seem to be in the business of burning CDs (and not delivering them) these days, does anybody want a CD copy of Monty Python Live at Drury Lane?

[ManDownUnder]

there are heaps of mufti cars out there. the silver mufti on the NW could easily have been a CIU/CIB/enquiry car. the HP cars though, are the ones that will be out on the highways. there are a couple of lpg ones that i know of, but they tend to be admin ones that are occasionally used for enforcment - the HP inspector (tooman) in hamilton has a black VY executive with acclaim alloys fitted. it is on lpg, is fitted with a stalker, and after it gets fixed (it was rammed by a stolen car) it will be back on the road. it tends to be used for enforcment on the weekends.

OK - ignorant question time.

"Fitted with a stalker"... I take it you don't mean the cop themselves?

What is a "stalker"?
MDU

[jrandom]

slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

I did that. He followed me all the way off the motorway and pulled me over for a 'license check'.

[ManDownUnder]

[joins sing-a-long]

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

:D

Could be worse I suppose you could have started singing "Sit on my face" then we really would have been in trouble. Or worse yet "Evert sperm is Sacred", then we would have had the fear of God (Zed) coming down on us. :killingme

Or the penis song....
Isn't it awfully good to have a penis
(forgotten many of the words, but very funny - from the meaning of life interlude)

[ManDownUnder]

I did that. He followed me all the way off the motorway and pulled me over for a 'license check'.

Sounds like a tactic worth adopting to me...

[dangerous]

What do you think the reaction would be to drive nice and slow in FRONT of a cop?

Something like
1) follow the cop at a set distance getting a good reading of the speed they are doing (i.e. 95 kph)
2) SLOWLY pass the cop, do about 104 kph - just ease on past
3) slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

Perhaps slow to 93kph? :moon: :Police:

Mate I wouldent have the bloody patince for that kinda shit.
Last month a mate and myself were in this exact situation....... following the pigger at 95, down a bloody big straight I picked him up on radar detecter 2k earler so I knew he was out there. Anyway as we were doing 105 (detecter going off every 30sec as he was trying to nab us... huh I showed him :whistle: we cought up so I thought after 1min of doing 95 Ohh fak this and indercated pulled out took it up to 110k indercated pulled back in carried on at 110k and my mate is one of these people that is too scared to pass a copper and stayed back...... but the copper moved over to let him through so he passed aswell.

Now either he was the one good copper or he was rather pissed off as we never went above 110k including when we were comming up behind him........... cheers Escort passport 8500 :not::msn-wink:

[Lou Girardin]

When you've passed the cop start flashing oncoming vehicles. They soon get pissed off at the slim pickings and pop a u turn.

[LB]

Beau'iful pluuuumage, the Norwegian Blue.

Also, it would work well when threads stopped moving on account of people being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

By the way - since I seem to be in the business of burning CDs (and not delivering them) these days, does anybody want a CD copy of Monty Python Live at Drury Lane?
Yes, yes, yes - I would love a CD of "Live at Drury Lane" please. Can you PM me your address so I can send some cash or a blank CD?

MORE fucking gondolas........

[scumdog]

They make the mufti cops stand out a mile!

Not all mufti's have one, but nearly EVERY new holden on LPG is a mufti... in my experience anyway.

And you can spot them from behind - so easily.

Very kind of the boys in blue to point themselves out like that I think!

Why would you need to spot them? do you need help from them lots & lots? :wacko:

Don't depend on it down here - you won't find many with LPG stickers but they WILL find you!!!!!!! :niceone: