Save Fuel and Cash with These Tips
Robert C. Beiro
With rising petrol prices and other expenses, running a car can be a huge burden to your wallet. Take heart, there are some things you can do to to make your vehicle more fuel efficient.
1. Keep your vehicle properly tuned. This can mean up to 30% saving over a car that has not been serviced.
2. Don't idle the engine unless it is totaly neccessary. The car your parents used to own may have required warming up in the morning, but modern cars don't. Also, turn your car off when waiting outside a friend's house to pick them up.
3. Another way to save fuel is to is to slow down. 20mp of your speed can mean as much as a 15% saving. Also try to use cruise control if your car has it. This will help avoid sudden acceleration and de-celaration, which can waste petrol.
4. Properly inflated tyres are important to keeping keeping you car fuel efficient. Make sure they are kept aligned too, which also helps your car handle better.
5. Try and do your errands together in the same trip, rather than going back and forth on separate one which can be very wasteful and inefficient. If you don't have to go out at peak traffic times, stay at home. Wait until the traffic dies down before running errands, this way you won't be stuck in traffic with the engine running.
6. Car sharing is another great way to save fuel especially when taking the kids to and from school and sporting events. Perhaps you can offer to take your kid's friend home this week and his parents can return the favour next week. Or maybe share the trip to work? We're living in a time where people live farther from work than ever before. With the price of petrol car sharing makes more sense than ever.
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