Don't know anything about them apart from a friend has them in his Bailey, but has anyone tried the BP Gaslight bottles?
R

I've also got a 530 Andy, be it the older 1000kg model. I tow it with a 2 litre Touran.
I have to admit that I've never measured the nose weight however. Because we do most of out touring abroad, we carry 2qty Camping Gaz cylinders in the gas locker.
Our front under seat lockers carry bulky lightweight items like a roll up aluminium table and four stools. A TV aerial etc. plus some heavier items like awning pegs and EHU cables etc. We also fold the front table and seats down and lay our folding chairs on top.
The rear lockers are for the leisure battery and pots and pans etc.
I have found that the balance has always been great until that is, I removed the caravan spare wheel from under the back (I now carry it in the car). I've substituted that missing weight by carrying a 35 litre plastic box and lid, filled with food items, under the rear table.
Everything is now back in balance. I really should try it on a nose weight gauge however...
R

Normally inside me........before you can get at it

We tow our Triton with a 2.0 Tfsi (petrol) Audi A4 Cabrio and Audi recommend that the nose weight should be at the maximum, i.e.75 Kg with the car also loaded. I have to increase the normal car tyre pressures from 33 psi all round to 42 psi all round when towing so I carry a 12V compressor in the car boot.

We do most of our touring in France so always carry a Calorlight propane bottle plus a CampinGaz 907 cylinder which we can replace on the Continent. To be honest, we hardly ever use any gas as we always go for pitches with EHU and tend to use our Lidl induction hob for cooking and the Truma Ultraheat if we need to keep warm. The 907 cylinder is mostly used for cooking in the awning with the Cadac Safari Chef.

To get the nose weight up I stow our two folding bikes between the fridge and the wardrobe with the two Duvalays on the floor at the front to cushion them. We usually travel with the water and toilet tanks empty, unless it's a short journey.

It works for us.

Hi Alan. Yes, we take the second row of seats out of the Touran and, of course keep the rear two collapsed which therefore leaves us with a small van with windows in it
That way we can throw everything in the back without worrying too much that it won't all fit. The biggest bugbear with the Touran, and many other modern cars nowadays, is that they come as standard without a spare wheel. I insisted that they supplied one. Therefore, when touring, the Touran spare sits upright, immediately behind one of the front seats in the rear seat footwell and the Eriba spare sits behind the other.
Regarding the Camping Gaz 907, I'm not sure what is supplied as standard in Germany but on our van, I had to change the "push on and lock" regulator for a threaded one.
R

>Does the standard i.e. as it left the factory, 30Mb regulator fit straight onto the 907?

Our van is a 2003 model immediately prior to the bulkhead-mounted regulator so I carry two separate regulators and would swap them over if needed. To date I haven't needed to use the 907 for the van but carry the regulator just to be safe.

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The pic shows the shelf I made to carry the 907 and provide extra storage space. The woodwork has long since been sprayed black to match the interior of the gas locker.