LPG refused in Spain?

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I'm sure I've read about people being refused LPG / Autogas (for heating, cooking) by some service stations in France, where they only allow it if that's what your vehicle runs on.

We've just been refused in Spain, at a Repsol station.

Has anyone come across this, are we likely to have problems getting it?
 
Only what I have seen online and heard from people when at a show but it seems Repsol in Spain have been refusing but not all of them. Only others I have heard refused were using direct fill bottles
 
Jo001 said:
I'm sure I've read about people being refused LPG / Autogas (for heating, cooking) by some service stations in France, where they only allow it if that's what your vehicle runs on.

We've just been refused in Spain, at a Repsol station.

Has anyone come across this, are we likely to have problems getting it?
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What is your set-up?
 
If you have an external fill point and the cylinders are marked that they have 80% fill limit, I would have thought that it would be worth arguing the point. My travels have been limited to UK and France and I have never been refused (including at Total stations in France).
 
No issue with refilling my safefill tank while in Spain earlier this year. I can’t recall if station was REPSOL or some other?
 
Jo001 said:
I'm sure I've read about people being refused LPG / Autogas (for heating, cooking) by some service stations in France, where they only allow it if that's what your vehicle runs on.

We've just been refused in Spain, at a Repsol station.

Has anyone come across this, are we likely to have problems getting it?
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Never had a problem in Spain.
Happened in France, I think , twice in 12+ years .
 
Picked some up at a local repsol station to me last month. Employee filled tank for me .
So a bit of a first for us in Spain ,although we had some problems earlier in the year in Italy
 
I have put an Autogas sticker beside my fill point(Gaslow bottles) and I will point to that if I have any problem, which I have never experienced. However, I would suggest you don't fill up with diesel at the same time!
 
britcoms said:
I have put an Autogas sticker beside my fill point(Gaslow bottles) and I will point to that if I have any problem, which I have never experienced. However, I would suggest you don't fill up with diesel at the same time!
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Lol! If you do fill up with diesel do it second. I always do that. 😁

Only ever had a couple of difficult fills in France years ago where we were initially refused but i just pointed at the filler on the side and reluctantly they gave me it.
 
From what the people said at Lincoln show this is something new. It’s to do with tax or something and was Repsol only so far. As I said though they did get gas at a different Repsol
 
I was refused. In a repsol site about 100km south of French border, only happened once ,the next garage was also repsol but no issues. We have underslung tank so no bottles.
 
Thanks all. We did in fact fill with diesel first, and also Mr 001 keeps the adapters in the locker where the cylinders are, so next time he'll have the adapter out already and get us filled before anyone gets the chance to challenge him.
 
TJBi said:
If you have an external fill point and the cylinders are marked that they have 80% fill limit, I would have thought that it would be worth arguing the point. My travels have been limited to UK and France and I have never been refused (including at Total stations in France).
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So far as my experience is concerned I have never had any problems when refilling to an outside filler cap, but I have had problems refilling a bottle that you would normally take out of the gas locker, such as Safefill. Even explaining in English to an English retailer in England they do not understand the concept that a bottle with a 80% cut off valve will be safe, but without it will not. They are not gas engineers and are not educated by their employer as to what is safe and what isn't. The absolute most really annoying thing is that ebay is still advertising those brass adaptors to refill non refillable bottles. They should be illegal - perhaps they are - but they are still available and still blowing up gas stations. If you owned a blown up gas station would you reinstate the sale of LPG? My current camper came with one and the seller proudly told be how he refilled Calor bottles using one. I said well you are extremely lucky to still be alive, I ama qualified gas engineer and I wouldn't use one. I cut the refiller death trap in half when I bought the camper so that no one could ever use it.

What I did in Spain eventually with a Safefill bottle was to position the bottle nozzle so it could be filled by opening the gas locker door but not removing the bottle and positioning the van so the gas locker could not be seen from the kiosk. When I got home I sold the Safefill bottle, and I personally wouldn't buy another one. You can't change them to accept a refilling hose. Unless you own an engineering company of course . . . .
As for 'only if the vehicle is designed to run on gas' - how can they tell? And can you argue convincingly in Spanish? I can't.
 
Jo001 said:
I'm sure I've read about people being refused LPG / Autogas (for heating, cooking) by some service stations in France, where they only allow it if that's what your vehicle runs on.

We've just been refused in Spain, at a Repsol station.

Has anyone come across this, are we likely to have problems getting it?
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We’ve just had the same at a TotalEnergies station in France , don’t know why the just don’t charge the extra tax it’s only cents difference and it keeps pumps in use and people in jobs .
 
Nabsim said:
From what the people said at Lincoln show this is something new. It’s to do with tax or something and was Repsol only so far. As I said though they did get gas at a different Repsol
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I read TotalEnergies web page , they are refusing m/h as they had someone filling a normal cylinder with eBay style adapter and it blew up on their forecourt , we have safe bottles and filler on the outside , but the attendant was screaming like a banshi so we just left and filled up at the next forecourt no problem !
 
Jo001 said:
I'm sure I've read about people being refused LPG / Autogas (for heating, cooking) by some service stations in France, where they only allow it if that's what your vehicle runs on.

We've just been refused in Spain, at a Repsol station.

Has anyone come across this, are we likely to have problems getting it?
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We had no problems in Spain, Jo, though we saw a couple of Posts re problems with *some* Repsol garages, albeit none that referred to 'cooking or vehicle propulsion only' - think that was Italy!

There is a Repsol between Benicarlo [almost opposite Tambo M/Homes on the N340a] and Peniscola that serves the LPG for you; very cheap LPG, with forecourt service at Porto Sagunt; Repsol literally next door to the Aire at Salamanca; a 24 hr garage 500m from the Aire at Vilafranca and others that will come to mind throughout the day! We have never been refused LPG in Spain, and have never really had to panic about where the next refilling point will be situate!

Steve
 
Just a question about Spain, I was always told, (info will be a few years old now) that it was cheaper to connect a Spanish bottle in Spain than fill with lpg. Is that not the case any more?
 
Hi Everyone.
Have been unable to refill gas tanks at any Repsol garage in Portugal for the last few years .Most other fuel stations are no problem. I have been told if you put a sign on filler point saying for engine use only most will except this.
 
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