Improve Your Gas Mileage
Posted on | January 22, 2007 |
Car maintenance isn’t only important for preventing car accidents and car fires, it also helps improve your gas mileage.
Three important maintenance tips include:
- Keeping your tires properly inflated and aligned. (Important for preventing car accidents, too - especially in winter!)
- Following the speed limit: gas mileage tends to drop at speeds over 60 mph.
- Keeping your engine properly tuned: “Fixing a serious maintenance problem, such as a faulty oxygen sensor, can improve your mileage by as much as 40 percent” - FuelEconomy.gov
More car maintenance and better mileage tips:
- Fuel Economy.gov
- How to Be Pennywise, Not Pump Fuelish: Federal Trade Commission (pdf file)
- The AutoSmart Guide (Canadian Govt.’s Office of Energy Efficiency)
Category: Car Accident
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March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:40 am
Proper car maintenance is a must. It protects car from damages, thus save us from expensive repair bills. It also help save fuel mileage. Maintaining car parts like: Change your air filter, jeep cold air intake filter, change your tires to the correct tire for the season, make sure your tires are properly inflated and among others. By doing such basic stuffs not only makes your car free from damages/defects but also saves some fuels.
April 14th, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
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