Today, due to the crisis, we all need to save fuel as much as possible in order to spend less and make it to the end of the month without too much suffering. Refueling has become an act of courage as gasoline and diesel costs have skyrocketed over the past few weeks.
There are those who have preferred, for months now, not to use the own means of getting around from one part of the city to another, or even from one city to another. In fact, many choose to use public transport, although this also means giving up their independence. If nothing else, you can save something.
On the other hand, not everyone has the opportunity to refuel once a week, especially since the prices of diesel and gasoline have reached incredibly high levels. The solution is generally within everyone’s reach, because sometimes the excessive consumption of fuel depends on our mistakes and not on the movements. So saving can be easier than you think.
Here are the errors that lead to excessive car consumption
Excessive fuel consumption has to do with our driving style and our habits. For instance too much fuel is consumed when the tire pressure is not right. It is wrong to either inflate car tires too much or inflate them too little. If they are too swollen, they limit the grip on the road and increase the risk of losing control of the vehicle and therefore of causing accidents. If, on the other hand, they are slightly inflated, they mean that the car consumes a lot more fuel.
The experts recommend that you check your wheel pressure every week or at most once a month, but especially when you go away from home and therefore you have to go a long way.
This is why more fuel is consumed with flat tires
The wrong pressure causes extra petrol or diesel to be wasted and this is certainly not a sign of great intelligence. In fact, too low a pressure of the wheels of the car makes the movement more difficult because it applies a strong rolling resistance, much higher than the norm.
Consequentially the car consumes much more fuel. The correct value below which you should never go down, for almost all cars is around 2 or 3 bars. This value refers to summer tires. Then there is an increase of 0.2 bar in the winter because with the cold the pressure of the car tires decreases a lot.
