Saving gasoline can cost us dearly
We all know this: it is so difficult to fill the tank of the car that many drivers decide to apply some tricks on their own to reduce consumption and, thus, save a few euros in gasoline. However, this practice can be detrimental if it is executed poorly.
This expense increases in summerbecause many people use the car to go on vacation to the beach or town, or to go to local festivals on weekends.
However, this is a practice that can be very expensiveand we are not only referring to the price of the breakage or failure, but above all to what is the part itself that has failed us.
what we shouldn’t do
Because if; an abuse of these driving techniques can cause a major mechanical breakdown that ends up absorbing any type of savings to pay the repair bill in the workshop.
This is why it will be vital to know how can these tricks affect of saving gasoline both to the behavior of the car and to its mechanical part, and that a bad practice could suppose a major failure and major mechanical breakdownas we will see in the following lines.
Circular in dead port
Even if it’s downhill, it’s false. In neutral, the idle mode, in which the engine maintains a low but constant consumption, which is measured in liters per hour. Driving like this also poses a serious risk to your integrity and to other cars, since you lose control over the accelerator.
In this case suffers shift and transmission of the car. Generically, if you engage the highest possible gear, the engine works by its own inertia and then the consumption is zero, or very close.
Cruise control
Another completely false statement. The cruise control maintains a constant speed regardless of the terrain, so that both going uphill it forces the engine to maintain that speed, which raise spending in an important way.
When we drive and little that let’s be careful we make better use of inertia. In addition, the cruise control comes to brake the car if on a downhill we exceed the set speed.
Don’t rush the deposit
It is true that if we hurry up the tank we circulate with less weight, which reduces consumption, but, on the contrary, all the dregs that are at the bottom of it can enter the car’s fuel system, which can cause a very high damage which cancels out any savings.
In addition, and beyond being able to damage the engine due to residues, the reserve is in some way detrimental to the propellant since it makes it work more than necessary. Just as it is more difficult for us to suck through a straw the less liquid there is in the glass, the suction pump has a harder time attracting fuel when it is scarce.
Also, trying to absorb the last few traces of liquid air sneaks through, making the air/fuel mixture leaner and therefore less efficient.
Use low quality fuels
We all want to pay less when filling the tank. A good way to do this is to resort to low-quality fuels. In reality, fuels in Spain have a minimum quality to qualify for sale to consumers, but it has been shown that gasoline or diesel with fewer additives can generate deposits and dirt that could end up in the engine.
Luckily, cars have a fuel filter that is responsible for preventing these residues from entering the combustion chamber. The filter will get dirty sooner with poor quality fuel and could end up affecting engine performance. Even if it ends up accessing the cylinders, this dirt could lead to a major breakdown.