Some suggestions to improve the performance of your vehicle:
- Purchase a tire gauge and check your tire pressure at least once a month. Under-inflated tires can lead to poorer gas mileage.
- Read your owners manual and learn how to open your car’s hood. If the hood is not spring-supported, learn where to place the prop rod so the hood will not come crashing down.
- Learn how to safely check your motor oil, transmission fluid and power steering fluid.
- When your car overheats NEVER remove your radiator cap to “let off steam.” Doing so may result in serious injury.
Five Ways to Save Fuel:
- Lighten up – Remove unnecessary weight and wind dragging luggage racks. Extra weights make the engine work harder and use more fuel.
- Drive smoother – Automobiles are built to get the better fuel mileage at the speed limit. Hard accelerations and decelerations waste fuel.
- Check tires – Keep tires inflated, rotated, and aligned to save fuel and keep costly tire purchases to a minimum.
- Maintenance – Proper fluid changes and tune-up keep a vehicle running at peak efficiency. Changing to synthetic fluids can increase fuel mileage as much as 5%.
- Avoid Idling – Extended idle time uses fuel without moving the vehicle. Today’s cars do not need the warm up times they once did. Five to Ten seconds is all that is needed before you go.