With the current economic climate ever looming in the background, more and more people are researching the best ways of cutting down on petrol costs. And while there are a number of myths widely available online that will do little other than inconvenience you, there are a number of methods that genuinely can reduce the price that you pay at the pumps. Here are the seven methods that I have found to be the most effective.
Don’t Slow Down for Speed Bumps
Well obviously it’s necessary for you to slow down a little bit but simply reducing the extent to which you slow down can save you petrol. When taking a group of speed bumps, slowing down and speeding up for each one you encounter requires far more petrol than simply continuing over them all at around fifteen miles per hour. Any faster than this however and you are likely to pay for your petrol savings in terms of your suspension.
Breaking the Speed Limit Isn’t Always Expensive (in terms of Petrol)
While some apparent experts will whine about the difference between forty and sixty miles per hours, the majority of people with actual qualifications in the field suggest that it makes little difference. In the average car, the petrol consumption will only increase a significant amount when you go over the seventy miles per hour mark.
Accelerating and Decelerating
All experts agree that one of the worst things that you can when it comes to petrol guzzling is frequently accelerating and decelerating. For lower petrol costs each month, you need to drive as steadily as possible. While this of course does not mean that you don’t slow down for pedestrians/roundabouts, it does mean that when you are on a highway you try to stay as close as possible to a particular speed. Even alternating between fifty and sixty significantly effects how much petrol you use. Simply choose one and stick to it. And when you do arrive at something that you need to slow down for, slow down slowly and steadily and once you have passed it, feel free to accelerate but do so gradually rather than simply jamming your foot down.
Revs
Many non petrol head drivers don’t pay enough attention to their revs when changing gear and this has a significant effect on how much they pay at the pumps. There is in fact an optimum level of revs per minute to have when you are changing gear. When you are making the move into fifth gear driving a petrol car, your revs per minute should be around the 2,500 mark whereas when you are making the change on a diesel engine, that number should be closer to 2,000. Changing into fifth gear when your revs per minute are significantly different than these levels (in either direction) leads to your journey requiring far more petrol.
Traffic Jams
Avoiding traffic jams not only helps to keep you calm, it can also lead to lower petrol bills. As you can imagine, constantly stopping and starting is pretty much the opposite of steady driving. And if you cannot avoid congestion and are going to be idle for more than ten seconds, you will actually save more petrol by switching off your engine.
Open Your Windows
When driving at low speeds, open your windows instead of using air conditioning. Some studies suggest that this can lower fuel consumption by as much as seven percent. On the other hand, if you are driving fast, the difference is minor so feel free to switch it on.
Modifications
As well as changing how you drive, changing how you look after your car can also help.
Don’t Slow Down for Speed Bumps
Well obviously it’s necessary for you to slow down a little bit but simply reducing the extent to which you slow down can save you petrol. When taking a group of speed bumps, slowing down and speeding up for each one you encounter requires far more petrol than simply continuing over them all at around fifteen miles per hour. Any faster than this however and you are likely to pay for your petrol savings in terms of your suspension.
Breaking the Speed Limit Isn’t Always Expensive (in terms of Petrol)
While some apparent experts will whine about the difference between forty and sixty miles per hours, the majority of people with actual qualifications in the field suggest that it makes little difference. In the average car, the petrol consumption will only increase a significant amount when you go over the seventy miles per hour mark.
Accelerating and Decelerating
All experts agree that one of the worst things that you can when it comes to petrol guzzling is frequently accelerating and decelerating. For lower petrol costs each month, you need to drive as steadily as possible. While this of course does not mean that you don’t slow down for pedestrians/roundabouts, it does mean that when you are on a highway you try to stay as close as possible to a particular speed. Even alternating between fifty and sixty significantly effects how much petrol you use. Simply choose one and stick to it. And when you do arrive at something that you need to slow down for, slow down slowly and steadily and once you have passed it, feel free to accelerate but do so gradually rather than simply jamming your foot down.
Revs
Many non petrol head drivers don’t pay enough attention to their revs when changing gear and this has a significant effect on how much they pay at the pumps. There is in fact an optimum level of revs per minute to have when you are changing gear. When you are making the move into fifth gear driving a petrol car, your revs per minute should be around the 2,500 mark whereas when you are making the change on a diesel engine, that number should be closer to 2,000. Changing into fifth gear when your revs per minute are significantly different than these levels (in either direction) leads to your journey requiring far more petrol.
Traffic Jams
Avoiding traffic jams not only helps to keep you calm, it can also lead to lower petrol bills. As you can imagine, constantly stopping and starting is pretty much the opposite of steady driving. And if you cannot avoid congestion and are going to be idle for more than ten seconds, you will actually save more petrol by switching off your engine.
Open Your Windows
When driving at low speeds, open your windows instead of using air conditioning. Some studies suggest that this can lower fuel consumption by as much as seven percent. On the other hand, if you are driving fast, the difference is minor so feel free to switch it on.
Modifications
As well as changing how you drive, changing how you look after your car can also help.
- Regularly getting your tires checked and therefore driving at all times with optimum tires will save you around two percent as well as making your tires last longer.
- For each forty five kilos of weight you remove from your car, you can save another one percent.
- If you have a rack on top of your car, many studies have shown that the significant drag caused leads to higher petrol consumption.
Finally, if reading this article has lead to you worrying that you are a little bit clueless when it comes to saving on petrol consumption, the following statistic should make you feel better. Shockingly, a recent statistic pointed out that ten percent of drivers think that turning off their radio will save on petrol when doing so has literally no impact on fuel consumption.
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