Thread: how much to get a gas tank recertified? $1600!

Sorry to drag up an older post but my LPG tank is due for its 10 year check up, I just asked my mech today and he quoted $180 ... $1000 is INSANE!

Simon.

Doesn't everybody get their portable gas cylinders updated by the well known firm L.T.R. & N.O. Punch?

How about this one. Friends let their house for three years whilst they were working overseas. Same tenant for three years. Always paid rent on time, house always clean, tidy, undamaged. When the tenants moved in there were two full 100lb gas cylinders. When the owners moved back in there was one empty 100 lb cylinder standing outside the back door and a 20 lb almost empty cylinder hooked up to the system sitting on a stack of loose timber and a bucket to bring it up to height. Where is the other cylinder? Mystery.

Edit- Further information from the owners. The loose cylinder left at the back door has "foreign" numbers. It is not one of the two that should be there. The gas company owns the missing bottles as well as the loose bottle which should have been at another address some distance away, had gone missing from there some time ago, and was out of date. Gas company not happy and wanted to charge the owners for the missing bottles but the a/c was in the tenants names and the estate agent confirmed that the bottles were missing on their vacating inspection whilst my friends were still overseas.

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

Yes 10 years is the time, if you have 9.5 yrs old BBQ gas cylinders that you own, it's time to take them to Swap and go oulets as after 10 yrs they refuse to refill them.
Strange how as long as you don't sell your vehicle, you can illegally go and refill your vehicles LPG tanks at the servo.
I know everybody ignores the 10 yr retest on vehicles.

One observant Safeway cashier attendant noticed that I didn't have LPG stickers on my number plate whilst I was refilling, I had new paltes and was waiting for the metal tags to arrive the next day in the mail.

That's all well and good Until you need a Pink Slip in NSW , not sure about other states , They Won't issue one if your tank has past it's inspection date.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

That's all well and good Until you need a Pink Slip in NSW , not sure about other states , They Won't issue one if your tank has past it's inspection date.

In Vic we don't have pink slips.
No annual inspections, same as Tassie.

We just pay the yearly a rego fee which includes the CTP insurance all in one. The only other insurance that we aquire ourselves is accident insurance ,fully comprhensive or third party only or you don't bother and drive uninsured and suffer the consequences if you damage another parties property.

When we sell a vehicle with plates attached we are required to supply a roadworthy certificate which lasts 14 days, in order to have the registered owner name changed.

If we sell it without a RWC we are required by law to remove the number plates and hand them it,

I thought that even in states where no annual roadworthy is required, a gas inspection is required annually. In the ACT no annual rego inspection for my 101 but I do need to get a gas inspection done to renew the rego.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

I thought that even in states where no annual roadworthy is required, a gas inspection is required annually. In the ACT no annual rego inspection for my 101 but I do need to get a gas inspection done to renew the rego.

Garry

The national standard AS1425 recommends annual inspections, but in SA I see so many out-of date systems on the road, I can only guess at the competence of the workshops that service vehicles here. Some of the vehicles I see are referred to me by local workshops, they don't ever look at a tank on a vehicle as they don't do gas. I point out to them the insurance issues of having out of date tanks in vehicles in their workshops. I suppose not enough of them have blown themselves up for the SA gov't to notice...

they must do things differently... the labour is one thing but the re-testing its about 150.00 per tanks normally....

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

I sold my D1 and the buyer was to get his own roadworthy.
He rang me today to let me know what was happening as it was sold with rego in my name, the deal was he had to do all the rwc stuff.
The install was twin subas underneath.
They had it for 3 days!, and charged $1600. (excuse was they had $600 labour as they had to remove the tow bar. )Tested and restamped the tanks not new ones, $1000.
If he wanted new tanks they were $600 each.
I would have thought ok, if they take the tanks out the labour would be justified, but $1000 to test. would have thought $300 max for that.
I know the recents rains had wasted away the top soil exposing gold nuggets, but did it also find it's way to the lpg business

Is testing a Manchester 3 scuba set up done as one test or are the 3 little tanks charged per item? Cheers