In the days ever rising fuel prices, the fuel bills are digging deep into the pockets of a common man. I’m going to share some practices which can get you more miles out of your fuel by increasing the fuel average or fuel mileage of your car.
Tip 1: Do not accelerate too fast
Too quick acceleration consumes too much fuel, accelerate slowly and gradually. That will save quite a significant amount of fuel in city driving.
Tip 2: Do not use clutch too much
If you use a manual transmission car, as is mostly used by people in India, do-not drive with clutch pressed, or use clutch only when needed, too much use of clutch will waste a lot of fuel.
Tip 3: Change gears appropriately
This is also applicable for manual transmission cars. Use correct gears at correct speeds, this will help save the fuel. For correct speeds, see your car’s user manual.
Tip 4: No Excuses to delay car service
Get the car serviced as per manufacturer’s recommended schedule. This will ensure good health of engine, less maintenance due to break-down.
Tip 5: Do you drive in dusty environment? Clean the Air-filter
If you drive in dusty environment the air-filter gets filled with dust and makes the engine suffocated. Clean the air-filter more often than the service schedule( say every 5000 KM or so) , this will help the engine run more easy and consume less fuel. Trust me, its going to really help.
Tip 6: Red-Signal Ahead? Put the feet off the accelerator
If you are sure that you got to stop after next 100 or 200 meters due to a red signal, keep your feet off the accelerator and car will slow down on engine’s resistance, saving on fuel as well as the brake shoes, apply brakes only when about to stop. This is a great help to save that extra drop of fuel.
Tip 7: Air Pressure in tyres
Get the air-pressure in tyres up to the recommended pressure, and check it once at least in 15 days, it helps the car run smooth and drink less fuel.
Tip 8: Try to keep a constant max speed
When driving in a city or highway, try to maintain a constant speed, that will help the engine put less effort to accelerate or decelerate unnecessarily. This will help reduce fuel consumption.
Tip 9: Keep the window’s glass rolled up on highways
Driving with AC on and glasses rolled up will actually help the car move easy because when windows are open, the car faces more air-drag due to cross ventilation through car, thus consuming more fuel. So always try to keep windows rolled up specially when driving at high speeds.
Tip 10: Buy fuel during morning hours
Buying fuel during morning hours makes sense, because the fuel is a liquid and cools during night hours as temperature is low, and it becomes more dense, so in night hours, you get more weight of fuel for same litres, so its like a bargain in fuel amount 
Tip 11: Re-fuel your car when tank is close to half
This will help reduce the vapors formation in tank, which moves out as you open the lid to re-fuel, thus saving some amount of fuel in the tank.
Tip 12: Clean up the crap from the boot-space
Remove any un-necessary luggage or stuff that you don’t need from back space, that will let the car feel light and run easy on less fuel.
Save fuel, burn it less, save economy and environment both, for a greener and cleaner tomorrow.
Also try to follow a car pool if you are traveling to office or college, that is fun to be with some friends and it reduces traveling boredom too
Happy saving!
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Hi,
Earlier i had posted a query and got good reply. I need to know something about driving i10 Kappa vs Maruti 800 MPFI. I drive in B’lore city and getting an mileage average of 12 KM/Litre. I have done about 3K KM. My question is when i depress the clutch say in 2nd or 3rd gear, the engine seems to rev up. Why does this happen ? I had not observed it in M800. Am i missing something and is the mileage ?
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Suresh
Hi,
Earlier i had posted a query and got good reply. I need to know something about driving i10 Kappa vs Maruti 800 MPFI. I drive i10 in B’lore city and mileage is about 12 KM/Litre. I have done about 3K KM. My question is when i depress the clutch say in 2nd or 3rd gear, the engine seems to rev up. Why does this happen ? I had not observed it in M800. Am i missing something and is the mileage OK?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Suresh
I’d like to know about Suresh’s query as well as I face the same thing in my i10
@Shantanu @Suresh
I also drive an i10 but it has a 1.1 Litre iRDE engine. I don’t observe a significant rev up, however I do observe a mild rev. There may be two reasons for it :
1. The kind of rotating parts which the i10 engine has (mainly the heavy parts like the crank shaft and other rotating mass), maybe significantly heavier than compared to compact engine of Maruti 800, so on depressing clutch pedal releases the load of rotating wheels from the heavy rotating parts and due to the momentum and energy contained it it, it accelerates in rotational speed which maybe causing the rev up. This is beneficial in a way that it works as a natural miniature KERS system (read this for KERS – http://www.carblogindia.com/what-is-kers-kinetic-energy-recovery-system/ ), so when u release the clutch again, you don’t feel much of a jerk or dip in speed as you feel with Maruti 800.
2. The most likely reason is also the ECU tuning. ECU is the microprocessor which controls the engine and its tuned differently for each car depending on car’s weight, performance and other handling characteristics. ECU tuning (also known as ECU mapping) determines how your engine will respond under various load, speed and temperature conditions, so this rev up maybe a feature rather than a bug, so that when you switch to next gear, there is no significant dip in speed when you release the clutch. If you find it troublesome, you can ask service center guys to check whether your engine’s tuning is ok or not, its a part of the service anyways.
I hope I answer your query, please feel free to ask more if you have doubts.
Thanks for the reply.
I will check with the service center.
Regards
Suresh
my santro xing erlx Lpg model has an average of 10km/L …..
example :- fuel cost gas 32.75/L
in 100rupess i have got 3.06L,
In 3.06L car idiling(start) only 1n 30km with no Ac
26.6km with AC
there are standerd milage when idiling
that have not any condition of tyre pressure
–> this condition check after service (fresh airfilter & servo oil)
if u have any quary ask…me at anshulshrivastava3@gmail.com
but before my question is that the people ask me a kitchen gas ive a
better average then petrol pump gas ???????