It is not exactly the right time to drive a car that has problems with the petrol warning light or that consumes too much. Here are some quick tips for knowing what’s going on inside the tank.
With the terrible war in Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisisevery motorist who has not yet had the opportunity to get a hybrid, LPG or electric car has a single imperative: save on fuel. Unfortunately, many of us have to use our machines every day for business or personal reasons.
It is always better to know how much petrol you spend on average in a week. And here’s what to do in case the accounts don’t add up and your car you seem to consume more than expected. The very first thing to check when your car signals too often that it is running out of gas is obviously a check by the mechanic to figure out if the warning light may be faulty or not.
Assuming it isn’t, there are some very frequent causes for excessive consumption of petrol. Let’s start with the first which is quite subtle: the sensors that detect oxygen and the air filters help your car to dose air and fuel so that the engine can perform at one hundred percent of its efficiency. If the math doesn’t add up, checking the air filters can be a solution to the problem.
The check-up manual
If that doesn’t work, another imperative check it’s about tires. Precisely because if the pressure of the same is insufficient, the fuel consumption of your vehicle could increase dramatically: the reason is simple, a tire that is too “limp” makes the car less performing and consequently also affects the fuel consumption of the vehicle. machine.
The essential check in case of mismanagement of petrol also concerns other fundamental components of the engine of your car. Spark plugs and injectors, if defective, can adversely affect fuel consumption. Injectors in particular, as the name implies, inject fuel into the engine and if they don’t work as they should, the consequences can be very serious and costly.
One last tip, as trivial as it may seem – and trust that in a summer period it is not at all! – is to hold under control the air conditioning. In fact, using it too much and too often means that a lot of the car’s gas is used to power it. Better to suffer a bit ‘of heat than … to suffer when paying the full tank, or not?
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