Gas saving tips
- Take the lead out of your foot ease into traffic and pull away from a stop light slow.
- Tune her up nothing uses more gas then a badly tuned car.
- Avoid prolonged warming up of engine, even on cold mornings - 30 to 45 seconds is plenty of time.
- Check the air pressure in the tires often.
- Keep windows closed when traveling at highway speeds. Open windows cause air drag.
- Inspect suspension and chassis parts for occasional misalignment. Bent wheels, axles, bad shocks, broken springs, etc. create engine drag and are unsafe at high traveling speeds.
- Traveling at fast rates in low gears can consume up to 45% more fuel than is needed.
- Buy gasoline during coolest time of day - early morning or late evening is best. During these times gasoline is densest. Keep in mind - gas pumps measure volumes of gasoline, not densities of fuel concentration. You are charged according to "volume of measurement".
- Don't start and stop engine needlessly. Idling your engine for one minute consumes the gas amount equivalent to when you start the engine.
- Avoid "reving" the engine, especially just before you switch the engine off; this wastes fuel needlessly and washes oil down from the inside cylinder walls, owing to loss of oil pressure.
- Use lighter weight oil synthetic oil.
