euro tunnel turning gas off

[romany]

no this has been asked before but cant find the thread, this is taken from ET web site

For the purposes of this text, this means fixed containers that are permanently installed or fixed in a vehicle and are refillable from outside the vehicle.
The quantity of gas is limited to 47kg (or approximately 93 litres) maximum for a single container and to 50kg (or approximately 99 litres) maximum in the case of several containers. Each container must be no more than 80% full.
The quantity will be checked via the gauge or remote indicator but if neither are present, the vehicle will be refused.

Firstly due to health going to be extremely difficult to crawl underneath to turn gas off at cylinder wondering if the main shut off valve just entering the vehicle is good enough, secondly I only have an LED system showing roughly whats in the tank and in my experience totally unreliable and gives no idea of what percentage of gas is in the tank. so am i likely to be refused. My tank takes a max of 18 litres at 80 %. First time using the tunnel with an MH with fixed tank

 

[Mikeco]

I turn my tank off with a valve just above the floor and they have always accepted this, there will not be a problem with the 80% rule as that is the maximum that will be in a full tank.
Just show them that you cannot light the hob as a demo.

 

[Stonemags76]

Just turn it off in the van. We have the same setup, and most of the time they don’t even look!

 

[Riverbankannie]

Agreed with above, they just ask if turned off. We have a remote lever tap that we can access alongside the step but inside taps seem to suffice.
Once we genuinely forgot and declared not turned off. They just pulled us to one side and after seeing us turn off remotely just checked the hob didn’t light.

 

[Madcaravanner]

We've used the tunnel often as long as I turn of the cylinders in front of them they don't appear to be worried about anything else -

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[Grianan]

Ours is just Calor but, coming back, the girl asked if we’d turned it off ... not yet we said. Well you’d better do it before you board or you might explode she laughed. That was it. We did of course. But no checks. No checks outbound either .. they just accepted our word.

 

[romany]

Thanks everyone got a bit OT when saw the bit about gauges but have now realised by law at least in this country you cant exceed 80% anyway also good to know they except inside shut off valve.

 

[Mikeco]

Thanks everyone got a bit OT when saw the bit about gauges but have now realised by law at least in this country you cant exceed 80% anyway also good to know they except inside shut off valve.

It’s not really a law, if filled by more than 80% you will not get any gas out, the 1000 litre tank in my garden is just the same.

 

[Badknee]

Always asked to see the tap, ours is in an outside locker and are quite happy to see it turned 90* to the pipe and off we go.

 

[SomeoneElse]

Always asked to see the tap, ours is in an outside locker and are quite happy to see it turned 90* to the pipe and off we go.

Exactly as ours, when autogas2000 fitted it they added a label indicating which way to turn the valve to the off position. Its been there for six years and has always been acceptable to Eurotunnel.

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