Thinking about getting a Safefill cylinder

Sorry but only just come across this debate. It has me really worried. I am just about to place an order for a new Autp-Sleeper mobile home after 40 years of excellent caravanning. The vehicle has an on-board gas tank, not separate cylinders that I’m used to. Many garages are taking out the lpg fuel pumps and reports seem to imply owners of such vehicles are struggling to find supplies. 

Anyone experienced this problem and just how much truth is there in the stories I’m hearing?

It definitely becoming more difficult to source LPG Auto Gas.

Although there is no problem filling up for me in North Nottinghamshire. In the last year or so the station only 2 miles away has stopped selling it, as have all Shell garages. We have a Gaslow system and therefore have the option of easily switching to Calor or similar if it ever became necessary. Only you can decide, but personally I didn’t want to consider an on board tank for that reason when we bought a MH in 2019. The closures since then have just reinforced that opinion.

We also have a Gaslow system in our caravan, mainly to be able to fill on 4 month trips abroad, as we used to do.

Now we are staying in UK, we have found quite a few LPG stations we had not known about before.

Just last week we  could have filled at a Shell station at Tollcross in Glasgow, just off the M74, but their pump was broken.

We went on to Abington services on the M74, another Shell station, and filled there without problems.   We also had a back up Gulf station in Dumfries, not too far off our route.

Google Map of LPG outlets

https://www.mylpg.eu

http://www.filllpg.co.uk

Those should keep you going. The FillLPG tends to be more up to date than MyLPG

Jenny, as you are using quite a lot of gas, my only advice is to be able fill and carry as much as possible when filling is available...if that means two safefills (or one larger one? and sell the smaller one?) then so be it.

similarly, id scrap the campingaz (way too small and too expensive) and revert to the large Calor as my 'back up'.....(cost proportionately less than 6kg exchanges, swapped at most campsites without staying there, last longer, less swaps required).

the pigtail issue can be overcome with a single adaptor...

going large (in primary safefill and secondary Calor) will give more time between top ups....

Thank you cyberyacht.  Very useful since this has been a real concern to me as venues around the midlands appear to be closing.

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I’d suggest ringing ahead. I’ve been caught out a couple of times, latest database saying yes, on arrival at the garage the attendant tells me no. The outlets seem to be disappearing more rapidly in recent times in my experience.