LPG availability in Europe

[GavinC]

France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy... is LPG prevalent at good prices and is it easily found? Filling connector same as UK? Considering taking a car there...

[capt jack]

Originally Posted by GavinC

France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy... is LPG prevalent at good prices and is it easily found? Filling connector same as UK? Considering taking a car there...

Yes to the first part, no to the second.

Get on to Autogas 2000 in Thirsk for the proper adaptors.

Cheers

Jack

[john h]

Not driven my LPG car in France, Austria or Italy.

In my experience, most (but not all) Belgian Garages have the same fitting as the UK. German garages are different, but of you ask they will have a set of adaptors you can borrow.

If you have a Tomtom satnav, there's a free download which plots all LPG stations onto your map; very useful.

I don't have the link to hand but a google search will find it. I think it was "user downloads" or something like that on the Tomtom site, but could be wrong.

John

[Fordy]

I've driven through France, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Austria and Belgium.

Sweden and Switzerland have 'pipe' adaptor that the pump clamps onto which I don't have so I had to run petrol.

Germany, except the very north bits, have a 'screw' adaptor. The pump has a screw instead of bayonet fitting like ours, a bit like different lightbulbs.

Everywhere else I've found uses the 'cup', so instead of clamping onto the pipe, it clamps into the cup.

Except Belgium which couldn't decide and had both the screw and the bayonet pumps. And Greece (Corfu) which had no gas at all.

Don't rely on the servo's having an adaptor. Italy, for example, hide their fillers inside the petrol flap and uses a different size screw thread than us. At about £25 each its a good investment IMO.

Prices were a lot better till the £ plunged against the E, as was everything. This August the LPG in Europe cost me +/- 10% against what I paid here depending on where I was.

+1 on the LPG satnav overlay. Sod law dictates you'll pass half a dozen LPG garages until you need to fill and then there isn't one for 50 miles. That happened a few times in both Germany and Italy.

[GMad]

I did all of the mainland European F1 GPs a couple of years ago in my LPG converted Pontiac Trans Am..
No trouble getting it, different adaptor though.

[classicswede]

There are 3 different filler types used

Dutch bayonet - used mainly in holland, UK
Acme - Germany, australia, southern ireland
italin cup - Italy france and majority of europe

If you get yourself the 2 adaptors you will be covered for all

Spain is the worst place for LPG as untill very recently it has not been available for public use at all.