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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #1
Is the Irish (south) connection the same as France?


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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #2
i needed an adapter when filling up near donagheys last year,
think it is a french type


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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #4
We have one and it came with the French adaptor, just wondering is it the same as Southern fitting.


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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #5
The French use a different adaptor than we do ours is the same as the UK France looks just like like a a small cylinder


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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #6
The screw on gas connection is not the same in the north and south (i ran out of gas in north could not get any till i came home)
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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #7
AHH!

That's where I am getting confused! so the Autogas fitting is the same but the screw on bit on the cylinder is different?


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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #8
Ya on the propane bottles we have female connection in north propane have male connection,i think the callor gas push on may be the same dont know as i use propane
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Thanks for your help folks :up:


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it is the french type
mine was 4 quid i think


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Ok I remain confused :)


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The South have a very different fitting than the French or UK type. It has the same thread to the vehicle but, unlike the UK or french type, the Southern fitting has a very coarse thread onto which the pump hose is then screwed onto, same as a forklift/plant fitting. Came unstuck last year myself when in the South, bought another fitting when I got home from ABP RV suplies, that takes my LPG adaptor count up to 4 ! Not gonna catch me out again..!! :up:


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Here's a pic of the fitting on our LPG tank if its any use to you. Coarse threaded screw. With protective cap removed. :up:



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Posted: 14.01.2013  ·  #14
Kevin, Your autogas fits straight into that?


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These ones seem to do them all :-) HERE


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Bayonet for :- UK and Holland ACME adapter for :- Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, USA, Hong Kong and some of Switzerland

Cup adapter for :- Austria, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Some Swiss and many Eastern European Spanish :- Mainly just Spain at the moment.


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Have you a photo of your one !? :-)


Currently wearing shorts and a T-shirt, I'll get a photo tomorrow when I get properly dressed :lol:


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Our is a Gaslow UK bayonet type fitting like this one
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Posted: 15.01.2013  ·  #22
I wonder how much it would take to convert a 2.3 Fiat x250 to gas . Im only getting 22.6mpg, Gas 79p over 1.35 for derv


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Don't think you can convert a diesel.

I enquired before on different vehicles and it was around £1200 - £1500


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Don't think you can convert a diesel.

I enquired before on different vehicles and it was around £1200 - £1500


Last year, I made some basic inquiries about converting our big ol petrol engine over to LPG and the quotes given over the phone ranged from €800-€1200 for our normally carburated engine. Its a bit more expensive for more modern fuel injected engines apparently which need more advanced electronic control for the fuel injection system.

It seems there's a revived interest in gas conversions down South recently now the price of petrol has hit and seems to have settled at €1.62 average. A fair few eastern autogas engineers (Polish, Hungarian) have set up businesses fitting LPG conversion kits to cars... and from what I've heard the LPG movement is gathering momentum.

We still need more forecourts to get on board and put in gas fill pumps. It's pathetic to think there's only 40 odd stations in the republic that serve LPG.


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there is no gas available in Dublin (pop. 1.1 millon ) so the suppliers dont seem too interested

PS you cant convert a diesel


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Yeah the French ones will fit in the South.


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On the way home from work this evening I stopped for petrol at a garage that I know sells LPG autogas.

I had a look at their gas pump set up.





The nice girl running the station was very helpful. She told me this nozzle fits directly onto most vehicles looking for a fill. She also showed me a box of nozzle adapters that they have for vehicles from outside the republic. (Handy to know)... :up:

For anyone interested - the station is O'Callaghans garage, Ballyvolane, Cork city. 51.914458,-8.447577 and the price of gas today was 91c per litre.


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Posted: 15.01.2013  ·  #28
Kevin, thanks for info and pics, slightly different looking to the ones in the North.


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Posted: 15.01.2013  ·  #29
Yeah that is the same as the one they use in France.


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Posted: 16.01.2013  ·  #30
Can't convert a diesel of course, but you can run it on cooking oil (new, or recycled, or a mixture of 50-50) as some are doing.


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Can't convert a diesel of course


its not impossible, but it IS impractical.

Study -

http://www.go-lpg.co.uk/diesel.html


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Posted: 16.01.2013  ·  #32
Agreed Blag. Why would you though as surely it would be more sensible to just change the engine and sell the diesel, rather than go to the expense of making it into a petrol type engine?


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Posted: 16.01.2013  ·  #33
That dual fuel (diesel & LPG fumigation) was interesting but I beg to wonder why...


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Posted: 16.01.2013  ·  #34
It still all seems a pointless exercise when the engine has to be radically altered to the point of making it likely to easily break down due to higher revs and compression changes lol.


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