LPG refusal.

[Obanboy666]

Well a sort of refusal.
Heading to the lakes today and decided to call at the Jet garage at Bradbury near Sedgefield in County Durham instead of my local Calor depot to top up on lpg.
I have used this garage over the last 2 years with no issues until today. No matter what I tried I could not get the pump to fill my Gaslow cylinder. Gave up and went into the shop / kiosk to pay the 35 pence for the gas I managed to get into my van.
The female attendant said you won’t get far on that and I explained it was for cooking / heating. She went on to say they don’t allow anyone to fill refillable cylinders etc and they would have stopped me using the pump if they had realised. My fill point is on the offside so the staff couldn’t see me attempting to fill up.
Told her it was no different to a car filling up which appeared to confuse her somewhat. She replied it was a management decision.
So won’t be giving them my business in future. Their lpg is at least 15p a litre more expensive than the Calor depot but convenient as it is on my route to the A1M motorway.
Called into Ullswater road garage in Penrith and filled up with no problems so thankfully my fill point is ok.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Yeah there’s nowt as funny as folk is there,
Glad you could fill up eventually though, it does seem that they are flexing there muscles on this gas refilling nowadays, Maybe we should put our refill points by our Fule Fill caps !,

 

[yeoblade]

It's strange but the pump I fill up at has 2 gas fill nozzles and only one of them will work for me, gaslow system, like you I can only get a few pence worth in when I've used it (the wrong one) before. However I've seen others use it fine.
I would not tell any filling station it wasn't LPG for the engine though.

 

[barryd]

Ive had a similar problem twice in the UK with my Gaslow filler on the side, both I might add over on the Yorkshire coast near Filey. (Two separate stations). The last time was last Autumn at Primrose Valley station. Not only would the pump not fill it backfired and sprayed LPG all over the forecourt similar to what happened near there several years ago. I wondered if it was my system but filled up at Helmsley on the way home no bother. The forecourt attendant at Filey reckoned their LPG pump was more bother than it was worth, make of that what you will but also said they would be getting rid of it.

I hate filling up in the UK, its always a faff. The French pumps and adaptor are much easier and more reliable.

 

[phillybarbour]

It's strange but the pump I fill up at has 2 gas fill nozzles and only one of them will work for me, gaslow system, like you I can only get a few pence worth in when I've used it (the wrong one) before. However I've seen others use it fine.
I would not tell any filling station it wasn't LPG for the engine though.

I’ve had this happen to me, went inside and was told this -

The gas tank is quite a distance from the pump, just keep your hand on the button and it will start after maybe a couple of minutes (that’s a long time stood there), sure enough it did. Says it’s worse in cold weather!

 

[CarlandHels]

I’ve had this happen to me, went inside and was told this -

The gas tank is quite a distance from the pump, just keep your hand on the button and it will start after maybe a couple of minutes (that’s a long time stood there), sure enough it did. Says it’s worse in cold weather!

That Wasn't in Castleford was it? I was told the same word for word. Took ages to come through. A couple of mins seems along time when your stood there holding a button and getting nowt for it..

 

[Deleted member 43466]

It's strange but the pump I fill up at has 2 gas fill nozzles and only one of them will work for me, gaslow system, like you I can only get a few pence worth in when I've used it (the wrong one) before. However I've seen others use it fine.
I would not tell any filling station it wasn't LPG for the engine though.

hi
i had the same problem at swalwell garage. went round to other side
it filled ok. its a under slung tank.

 

[Deleted member 3011]

In Italy, one pump would not pump ant GPL at all, but tried the other one of the pair and the tank filled as normal.

 

[maingate]

hi
i had the same problem at swalwell garage. went round to other side
it filled ok. its a under slung tank.

Which garage is that Eddy?

I only know the Jet garage but I would never get the van in or out of that Forecourt.

 

[Herman]

I’ve had this happen to me, went inside and was told this -

The gas tank is quite a distance from the pump, just keep your hand on the button and it will start after maybe a couple of minutes (that’s a long time stood there), sure enough it did. Says it’s worse in cold weather!

This is exactly the same where I fill up on the A6 in Westhoughton.

I think the reason the other pump works fine is because you have just primed the pipes with the first nozzle.

 

[vindiboy]

I had a LPG run around last week, I decided to take my van for a run as it had been stood for a while , so I thought I would go and fill the gas bottles, our local Garage at Swaythling Southampton has stopped selling gas so our next nearest was at West Wellow about 10 miles from where we live, there is a Garage just off the M27 junction 2 at Ower [Texaco star ] that used to sell Gas but after a recent refurbishment to the Garage they stopped selling gas [ or so I thought ] as the sign showing that they sold gas and the price had been removed from their bill board.
Any way I drove past this garage on route to the other one,[ wifey said we should call in and check if they still sold gas, Nah. says I ] when I got there I found that they did not sell gas either, DOH so I drove on a few more miles to another garage nearby but they are now a car wash staffed by our Romanian friends, so no gas there, so I decided to drive to Fawley where the refinery is and I know Flow gas has an outlet there, so off we go on our merry way, as I approached the garage on the Ower roundabout that used to have gas , my darling wife suggested we go in and take a look, so we did pulling in at the pumps and hey presto there it was £0, 697p a litre so I connected up and got 16 litres.At the pay desk I spoke to the cashier about the absence of the sign outside the garage not being there any more , she shrugged and said "well it used to be there " so I knew that discussion was going nowhere .
So we left the garage and drove out to the New Forest and parked up in one of the parking areas , went for a long walk and had our lunch in the van when we got back from the walk, got home late afternoon and had done 58 miles in the van so it had a fair warming up trip, moral of this story is .what you think you know you often do not, and one should listen to the fairer sex more often Hee Hee.:camper::cheers:

 

[Canalsman]

I hate filling up in the UK, its always a faff. The French pumps and adaptor are much easier and more reliable.

Agreed.

Whoever thought a bayonet connection was a good idea obviously didn't actually try and use it.

The dish connector is so much more straightforward.

 

[st3v3]

My first fill was a breeze at Andy's gas in Bristol. It's an attendant thing too, so don't even need to mess about with the pump

I think I had 22ltrs - it was a new 11kg bottle - and it was £9.95. so maybe 45p a litre.

Bottled Butane & Propane Gas In Bristol LPG - LPG AutoGas

 

[delicagirl]

i am so glad its not only me... i had thought for ages and ages i was being idiotic only getting 65p of gas at a time or even 10p ...... the garage on the A303/A37 junction to Yeovil Esso has a great guy who will help.... one of their pumps plays up sometimes but he is helpful

 

[oppy]

I remember posting about being refused gas at Morrisons in the UK and having a pump turned off on us in France all due to the fact that I had opened the door to our refillable bottles. Then I was mocked for cutting a hole in the gas bottle locker and fitting marine type screw off cap to it---------I've had no problems since, think about it. I no longer have to show an open locker door, just unscrew the cover and connect the filler

 

[jagmanx]

Never had a refusal

But I avoid Morrisons (for LPG)

Once in Romania the attendant checked but I re-assured him it was OK and showed the fill point was properly fitted .
The fill-point is fixed inside the gas locker but is properly connected to the two tanks.

We have been using this since mid 2014 and so fill up about once a month for each of the 5 months we travel.
Last summer in France the pump at one garage was faulty
I think on other occasions (in 4 years) there have been 2 x when the outlet had no gas or another problem.

This is mostly in Mainland Europe
In UK and ROI it is useful to plan a bit more and sometimes fill when you are still over half-full.
That for us is one of the big plusses of Fixed re-fillables.
We also have an external BBQ point for our Cadac and the cheaper price of LPG means we use it as much as we can even though it uses more gas than cooking in the van

 

[samuel]

lpg balloon pro^paan

This is exactly the same where I fill up on the A6 in Westhoughton.

I think the reason the other pump works fine is because you have just primed the pipes with the first nozzle.

Dont you have propaan fulling stations in the UK? Where the balloon drivers are fulling?
i am lucky to have one at 30 km from here.


LPG tanken, snel en goedkoop | Macogas and Propaan.

 

[Deleted member 43466]

Which garage is that Eddy?

I only know the Jet garage but I would never get the van in or out of that Forecourt.

hi
its the one just after scotchy bridge next door to where Taybarnes used to
be. it has large access even for hgv.

 

[mistericeman]

Just filled up at my nearest spot (Cheshire bottled gas) in Ashton Under Lyne.... Walking distance from me.

No issues and was happy for me to open my locker and fill my fitted gaslow bottles.



11.5 litres for £6.67

 

[yeoblade]

i am so glad its not only me... i had thought for ages and ages i was being idiotic only getting 65p of gas at a time or even 10p ...... the garage on the A303/A37 junction to Yeovil Esso has a great guy who will help.... one of their pumps plays up sometimes but he is helpful

Same one maybe, Podimore services off the roundabout, Use the Right hand nozzle, it's the one that works for me (even though I park in the left lane so it will reach the filler)