Calor bottles discontinued

😁 Great result for us, we can fit not one but 2 X 6kg bottles into MH gas locker, and we already have one to swop. I hope others are as lucky🤞

We can fit 6kg propane in as well Ttda but we also use the smaller 4.5kg Butane bottles as 3 season bottles. Not rushing to seek out alternatives at the moment as the 6kg Lite that we have still has plenty in it, probably 2 or 3 winters worth. Butane stock level also good from memory.

Gives us time to source future needs.

Edit - Meant to thank Paulmold for his Opening Post.

We currently have 2 calor lites one full one empty. The full one will last us a couple of years of normal use as we don't tend to heat the van on gas.

However this morning I checked out our local stockist just incase. No problem they currently have 6kg bottles, refill cost £31.50.

Checked with our local Flogas depot, they do have 6kg bottles but as we are not currently a customer (we are for bulk LPG) and don't have one of their bottles they can't help. They are only able to do a swap if you currently have one of their bottles.

That is not good news for those who can't get calor. 

Checked with our local Flogas depot, they do have 6kg bottles but as we are not currently a customer (we are for bulk LPG) and don't have one of their bottles they can't help. They are only able to do a swap if you currently have one of their bottles.

I suspect they are trying to be fair to their existing clientele as Calors news may have taken them by surprise as well.

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Flogas have (at the moment) 5 & 10 kg gaslight available without a swap, but there is a £49.96 cylinder charge. Can be ordered online or by phone with free delivery. Hope this helps anyone caught out by Calor’s decision.

When Calor started causing problems with supply of the 6kg Lite bottle I discovered that a 13kg bottle would fit into gas locker on my Bailey Senator.  Weight of bottle is a little bit more than two Lites, but less than two standard and gas is slighly greater.  Works well and I have a small Camping Gas on the other side of the auto-changeover to keep us going while replacing the 13 kg so noseweight kept reasonable.  

Anyone worried about nose weight would do well to switch to Gaslites. Anyone who uses a lot of gas would do better to switch to refillables. Exchange gas bottles work out at about three times the price for the gas you get compared with pumped gas for a refillable.

like many campervanners our 2001 Autosleeper Topaz gas locker is made specifically for the 4.5/3.9 Calor size (x2). We are fortunate to have two full bottles that may last this season, I think the best thing is to see if Calor change their minds in the next few months, and if not then source a non Calor bottle and change the gas locker to suit.

If I have to do the latter I will never buy any Calor gas again, supply over the last three years has been diabolical. Hoping it won’t come to this

Dave

 It's not always easy to change to refillable bottles due to lack of suppliers to get them refilled. Depending on where you live. 

We fitted gaslow on our previous MH, it had an external filler so no problems anywhere getting a refill.

However had it been a caravan and safe fill bottles we wouldn't have found it so easy to get a refill.

Unless you use a lot of gas the cost to fit these type of systems aren't generally worth it. I know we never benefitted from it due to our low usage. We did it for continental touring rather than buying a bottle over there.