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[canopus]

I was talking about driving into a garage when out on your travels. There is only one price on the pump and that's for propulsion NOT domestic. Hence keeping the gas locker shut if you dont want to be refused!!

 

[vwalan]

not true ,you can get reduced price at the pump if the garage owner wants to do it .
personaly i have never been refused . i dont use gaslow or gasit etc .there is no law that says you have to have a filler outside . imagination plays a big part in the scare mongery on here. or is it just fantasy.
very often the same tanker fills domestic tanks then goes off to fill the garage tanks or vice versa .

 

[GJH]

John (of John & Joan) gave a detailed explanation of VAT rates and their application on Broken Link Removed about 4 weeks ago.

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[sedge]

We did have a garage guy go ape at us on a Shell motorway services in France once, two years ago, he was hopping up and down and telling us we would explode, just at the time Pete was locking the locker door having filled up.

As he couldn't see the pump from the shop (because our MH was in the way) the only way he could have concluded from there that it wasn't for propulsion was from the low litre-age/price. Our fuel filler is on the same side as the gas locker.

So we moved the MH then to right next door to the shop in a parking space and went and had a leisurely luncheon in their cafe.

Oh and Pete said at the till, well presumably then as I couldn't really have this gas, you won't be charging me for it? Apparently his English had deserted him, odd that ......

It turned out subsequently that a M/H had allegedly exploded at a Shell station on a French motorway at some point recently, which led to Shell in France issuing a statement that they did not supply and were not prepared to supply, gas for refilling domestic tanks in vehicles.

Fair enough, truckstops never mind doing so, nor do supermarket and independent garages. Just not Shell stations ...... oh:

 

[iandsm]

I saw somewhere that French filling stations will only allow filling through an inlet in the bodywork - opening the door is a definite no no. Not sure of the legal status of that.

We're having a Gaslow single cylinder system fitted this week - the cylinder will be tucked into the corner of the compartment away from the door. The filler will be fitted to the side of the van just behind the compartment door. The space immediately behind the door will be for a reserve 6kg Calor cylinder in case the Gaslow system doesn't work for some reason.

Not so, opening the door if a definite "yes, yes" for us, we have had no problems at all over the course of 9 months and many refills in France, including shell stations. Of course I understand that there may rarely be a problem but we have never had one and anyway we are prepared to just driven to the next station. The great thing is, with Gaslow you never let it get so low that a refill is urgent.
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There is no legal issue on having the door either open or closed.

 

[vwalan]

some use these .seem to work fine.Link Removed
hard hat going on now .hee hee. someone had to do it .
but dont worry in spain its far cheaper to get a spanish bottle and exchange . .even better in morocco about 4quid to exchange a 12 kg bottle .

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[ShiftZZ]

Question.
Why does the Gaslow filler have to be as low as possible?

Dave

 

[Techno]

Who said that? it doesn't matter as long as it isn't in the habitation. If there's room within the gas locker either side of the door frame put it where you like

 

[ciderman]

it does not matter where the filler is in relation to the bottles ie top or bottom as the bottles have 80% cut off and the gas is pumped

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