Fuel efficiency improvements, without giving up power
Date:2011-07-25 Source:www.chinaspv.com
www.chinaspv.com: Maintaining optimal fuel efficiency can be a real challenge on a vehicle the size of a truck or an SUV. That challenge only grows more daunting and seemingly insurmountable when you try to consider keeping optimal fuel savings without sacrificing any power in return. There are, however, several options available that will allow a truck owner to keep fuel efficiency levels high while also keeping the vehicle’s power relatively unaffected. Below, we’ll go over a few of them so you can decide if any would be beneficial for your truck.
Tires
When discussing fuel efficiency on cars, the average person’s close-to-last guess of a part that could be important to this topic would be ‘tires.’ And yet, tires are critically important in relation to fuel efficiency, and truck drivers should keep this in mind if they’re looking to have less squeezed out of their wallets. Properly inflated tires can help you maintain your vehicle’s fuel efficiency. Properly inflated means that all the tires are filled up to the manufacturer’s guideline levels, and that there isn’t unevenness between the truck’s tires.
Tune-Ups
Performing basic maintenance on a truck is probably not an idea for a good time for most people, but regular tune-ups are great ways to keep that fuel economy high and gas expenditure low. Tuning includes all the routine stuff (making sure everything’s properly calibrated and working in fine order), as well as one of the most important items: oil changes. You may think those ads claiming that oil changes are important are a bunch of promotional nonsense, but they do help to maintain fuel savings over time.
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