REPSOL are taking the piss

[Dorset Diver]

REPSOL are taking the piss. Not my words but those of the REPSOL agent on Turiscampo near Lagos, Algarve. If a customer takes in an old propane bottle for exchange a new 30 Euro adaptor / connector is required also.

Prior to this trip I purchased a local cylinder hose to enable a local propane cylinder to be connected through my Gaslow filler into the system. I added to the hose the standard Spanish jumbo connector and thought I was fully prepared. Not so. REPSOL have changed their propane (not butane) cylinder connectors. For propane the jumbo connector is now obsolete. To make things worse the hose connectors are all right hand threaded. No more grabbing a cheap bottle from a flea market as its replacement will not fit your jumbo.

 

[Sheddy]

Hasn't changed here in Spain. ( Yet )
Cheers
Ed

 

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REPSOL are taking the piss. Not my words but those of the REPSOL agent on Turiscampo near Lagos, Algarve. If a customer takes in an old propane bottle for exchange a new 30 Euro adaptor / connector is required also.

Prior to this trip I purchased a local cylinder hose to enable a local propane cylinder to be connected through my Gaslow filler into the system. I added to the hose the standard Spanish jumbo connector and thought I was fully prepared. Not so. REPSOL have changed their propane (not butane) cylinder connectors. For propane the jumbo connector is now obsolete. To make things worse the hose connectors are all right hand threaded. No more grabbing a cheap bottle from a flea market as its replacement will not fit your jumbo.

The connectors have been the same on Portuguese Repsol bottles but the bottles are not interchangeable, at least I could not find a Repsol outlet in Spain that would exchange.

I was told that Portuguese Galp bottles had a different connection to Spanish ones, perhaps Repsol are changing to standardise with other Portuguese suppliers!

I managed to change my Portuguese Repsol for a Spanish Galp, so I now have two Spanish bottles which is ok for us as we are near the Spanish border most of the winter.

 

[maxi77]

Bottles are so easily available in Portugal so if Repsol is ripping customers of you can walk round the corner and there will be a shop selling Galp or Rubis.