Vehicles already placed on the Register will continue to be available through the search facility

However after that date no new vehicles can be added and no changes such as number plates can be made

A quick and easy search facility is on our home page, simply click here and then enter your vehicle registration number.

A legal requirement for the UK is fitting in compliance with the UK Construction and Use Regulations (available from HMSO). To meet this, the equipment fitted will need to be EC/67/01. Whilst in Europe all equipment should be manufactured to EC/67/01 specification, the fitting requirements in the UK are different - to comply with these please see Code of Practice 11 available from https://www.liquidgasuk.org/codes/cops/code-of-practice-11

Insurance companies may not accept a conversion undertaken outside the UK and your vehicle would need to be taken to an Autogas Installer to be inspected - check with your insurance company as to whose certificates they would accept.

You would also need to bear in mind the situation for any warranty cover and future maintenance and repair of the LPG System.

Currently, vehicles running on LPG autogas are not permitted to use the Channel Tunnel, they are however allowed on cross channel ferries. 

Fixed tanks in motorhomes which are used for habitation purposes (eg: cooking and heating) are now eligible to go through the Tunnel and the following advice appears on the Eurotunnel website for Gas Used for Domestic Services – fixed containers:

For the purposes of this text, this means fixed containers that are permanently installed or fixed in a vehicle and are refillable from outside the vehicle. The quantity of gas is limited to 47kg (or approximately 93 litres) maximum for a single container and to 50kg (or approximately 99 litres) maximum in the case of several containers. Each container must be no more than 80% full. The quantity will be checked via the gauge or remote indicator but if neither are present, the vehicle will be refused.

There is a well established conversion for diesel black cabs which involves changing the engine to a petrol unit converted to run on LPG

Apart from this, we are aware that systems are being developed to convert diesel engines to run on a mixture of LPG and Diesel (called Dual Fuel or LPG diesel blend) but we are concerned to ensure that such conversions provide satisfactory emissions in relation to carbon and air quality. We need to have satisfactory emission test results based on the European Drive Cycle without which the industry cannot support such conversions.

To date no such conversions have been accepted for by local authorities as eligible for exemption of Clean Air Zone charges.

The Energy Saving Trust have established an Accreditation Scheme for Aftermarket Technologies to include such systems for HGV’s which is used by Local Authorities to verify conversions acceptable for exemption of a Clean Air Zone charge – for further information see https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/service/clean-vehicle-retrofit-accreditation-scheme