Autogas filling fitting needed in Ireland.

[Des]

Does anyone know where an LPG adapter could be sourced in Ireland? Vicinity of Mullinagarrrr Westmeath? It's a small brass thing that screws into the UK / Dutch type bayonet filling point turning it into the ACME thread Frenchie / Irish type. The kind of thing that gets left behind after launching three wheelbarrow loads of crap from a vehicle a half hour prior to setting off for a ferry. Imagine if someone converted their motor to LPG 8 years ago, mainly to shirk attending to a temperamental old curmudgeon of a carburettor, how much of a pisser it would be to suddenly find themselves dependent on the horrible little bastard for probably a 100 mile drive up North into bandit country to find an adapter. 

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Lpgain in Clondalkin would; I know Arklow auto gas would; if it's any use I'll be in Arklow today and if you wanted to pay for one by card with them and I'll post it to you, you'd get it tomorrow or the next day

[Des]

Thanks for the offer, I turned up somewhere doing 24 hour delivery, so we'll see. 

[Junkman]

GLWTS.

 

I bet there are thousands of them.

But the shops selling them are either closed or derelict.

[Des]

Well the 24 hour delivery didn't happen, tried to talk sense into the couriers then after a few days found out the parcel was at a local depot in town so went in and fetched it. It was becoming tiring driving on petrol, I can handle the flat spots and spluttering of an appallingly neglected carb, but there's an electric fuel pump and shut off valve in the engine bay which are switched by a relay with a long established nonchalant attitude toward its duties, so I'll often have the engine die shortly after driving off, then frantic switching between fuels until it kicks back in.

I livened up the collection jaunt by incorporating an impromptu experience of The Joe Dolan Tour.

We start at the market house where we take in an effigy of the man himself.

 

 

Then off to the courier depot, located in the towns recently developed industrial area which takes us past....

 

 

Irelands longest bridge. Humbling.

I'm not sure if this wasn't an exercise in spaffing EU money. It spans a bog. I believe it normal form, unless rolling a lightweight twin wheeled tractor, to drive around expanses of soggy turf, nothing really wrong with bridges, quite common to have small ones crossing drains, just accept that they may disappear after a time. Bit ambitious suspending a quarter mile of tarmac and concrete across a fucking bog surely.

To round off the tour, back into town to fill with lovely LPG and we stop off at...

 

 

Not the shabbiest looking establishment in the locale, but a glance inside reveals a clientele comprising a notable quantity of tatooed skanks, their baby buggies and pikey looking wankers, This at mid morning. Hardly a fitting tribute to the great man.

 

Uplifting the mood, I find that in reaction to the Trump victory a certain well known activist and fat bloke is now selling VWs in Athlone.

 

 

Going by his past form, He'll be punting Nissans next Month.

 

Did somebody mention the T-Dawg?

 

 

Mulllinagarrr art. If I had the space over my fireplace, that baby would have come home with me.

 

Anyway back to reality, this is Ireland and here's a dog caravan.

 

 

This little chap may well be dreaming of his own caravan.

This is the first place I ever bought petrol. The pumps now replaced with a planter. I remember helping change a tractor tyre where the dog's standing, using levers and a sledgehammer to break the bead.

 

 

I nipped into the friary down the road, they have the stations of the cross laid out and I wanted to get a piccy because my ancestor was the model for one of the statues. Fit sort in the middle.

 

 

Saddening lack of old chod kicking around these days, all decade-ish old stuff from that five mins of good times or brand new blandness.

It seemed as though this was all we had left.

 

 

Need to look harder.

 

 

Well bugger me backways, how the fuck has this dodged rot, scrappage and devilment?

 

 

 

Check the dangleclaggers on this little honey.

 

[omegod]

I got caught out over there with the different filler when staying with family in Kildare, I managed to find a fuel station in Newbridge who had an adapter, IIRC the cost of LPG was only a few cents less than petrol

[Dirk Diggler]

I really didn't think there were any original Irish 131s left, great spot

 

Eta 1982 Wexford

[BavarianRetro]

I'm hearing loads of "172" adverts quoting €4000 scrappage? How does that work, then?

[Dirk Diggler]

Volume selling appears to be the thing here with tied PCP deals underwritten by the manufacturers credit; profit seems to be in very unfriendly small print terms and conditions

 

The market is so fucked here now; anything older than 5 years old or worth more than 5 grand at any age is very hard to sell privately

 

Insuring anything between 10 and 19 years old is becoming a bit of a pain

[Dirk Diggler]

Anecdotally, I've heard of a few that could be described as sharp; there's a few people with bills they won't be expecting down the road; the credit seems easy too