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Quote: Originally posted by Bidsagogo on 06/5/2008

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42p a litre is a bargain - I've been spotting it at around 58p on the mainland. Of course, my local supplier has a captive market as he's the only one on the island so can get away with 62p!

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We fitted Gaslow last Autumn.

The worst bit was drilling a hole in the side of the bodywork as that is the point of no return and if it had gone wrong then.........

BUT ......

No Problem.

We only bought a 10Kg bottle so as to leave room in the gas cupboard to carry toilet fluids, also, since we 'top-up' at the start of every trip we don't need another bottle.

A 'fill-up' usually costs around a £5 as there is always some left from the previous trip, but we don't want to run out. We are paying up to 59p a litre at A1 Service Stations.

The bottle was £90, Fill kit about £60, Guage £18. We had to buy a special sized drill at £20. All in all took about an hour to fit, for a DIYer.

We bought the lot from our local Brownhills Dealer, the Gaslow website quoted a very similar price, but we wanted to get it bought and fitted quickly.

For mine, I made a special holder inside the gas compartment. So when I want to fill up all I have to do is open the gas compartment door. This saved having to drill a hole in the door. Not an issue drilling holes in the MH as have just put 2 in the roof (one for the satellite and one for the solar panel and a couple in the side for other bits.

Hi, in reply to the problem of filling with LPG in Spain, if you find the Repsol Garage website I think you can download a map of the Bottle filling Depots. I used these last year, but it's getting hold of the map, thats the problem. In Portugal LPG or should I say GPL! is quite common at Garages. I will try to find my old map and maybe post a list of the Spanish Depots if anyone requires the info.

Happy Camping. 

Hi, just had a quick look on the Repsol website and a map of the filling stations and Depot's is available, called "Estaciones de Servico de Gas Butano" good eh! ( I have it written down).

Happy Camping. 

Quote: Originally posted by chrismulticruse on 11/5/2008

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interesting, the gas dealer you are on about would not fill my gaslow last time i was over,something to do with calor.
if im right is he oppisite a motorbike shop,on an industrial estate?
im over there this weekend fri till mon. i will make sure my gaslow is full before coming over.

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oops - pushed the wrong button and sent the above off before I'd added this:

Vectawarm is the dealer I'm talking about - he's in Newport on the industrial estate but I'm not sure if there's a bike shop opposite. 

Anyway, they fill us up without any problem so at least you know now that he's there and available in an emergency. 

Hope you had a good trip over chrismulticruse - where did you stay for your weekend?