LPG tank

Hi folks,

I'm new here, and new to the world of motorhomes, so I'm afraid I'll be annoying you with lots of questions till I find my feet a little..

A camper I'm looking at has a built in LPG tank - is this a common feature (it was imported from the continent)?

Is it difficult to find LPG around Ireland these days, or would I be better just running the equipment from a normal Calor cylinder? (there is also a fitting for one of these)..

Thanks in advance for any advice.

American vehicles often have these tanks as standard. Most forecourts with lpg will allow you to fill as many folks have lpg conversion on high litreage petrol engines, however one UK supermarket which I read about this morning won't let you fill for cooking and heating. Can't remember which one it was, but they can't tell if it's for road use unless you point it out to them. It's in this month's MMM

Hi - anybody heard about a fitting which allows you to fill your gas bottles at the service station using lpg - i have heard it costs way less than paying for a gas cylinder from the dealers .

From what has been posted on these forums, it is not that easy to find garages that sell LPG in the South.

There are quite a few options and different companies doing LPG systems that you can refill. Different sized bottles and underslung tanks, also the "illegal" way of buying an adapter and filling ordinary bottles which has some risks if you are not careful, but as FC says, plenty do it, I did it myself for quite a while.

It works out half price in the North, so a massive saving, especially in winter. I am not sure of LPG prices in the South?

I love it for the convenience, fill up with diesel and fill up with gas at the same time and with a proper system you don't have to wait until the bottle is empty as it cuts off when full, so you can put in £1 or £30 depending on how much you have used.

With the "illegal" system you have to run the bottles empty so you can measure exactly what you put in them, leaving a 20% gap for expansion.

Folks believe me gas is not to be messed about with and I'm talking from experience.

i have an lpg tank fitted and have regularly filled in the south with no issues

boiling a kettle is dangerous if you dont take care !!!

I have 2 alugas cylinders similar to gaslow, fitted when living in the uk. They last for ages and if you go to a bulk gas supplier you pay 5% vat for heating not 20% for engine fuel. Great on the continent if you get the right nozzle adapters. I would have preferred an under slung tank but with my ducatto chassis and various other tanks around the chassis there was not enough room for a decent tank.

The list below shows a list of the Filling stations with Autogas in Ireland

I too have read occasional posts about motorhomers who have had a difficulty in filling their Gaslow (or other) system at filling stations but I have to say I have never had a problem in - Ireland (north or south) or in Italy

http://ilpga.ie/autogas-outlets.php