The rising costs of fuel prompt you to look for means of improving your fuel cost problem. And the best way this can be done is with a change in motoring habits. Take a look at some easy means of improving fuel efficiency, without buying any expensive add-on equipment for your car. 

• You can save money by avoiding taking long spells of warming up of your engines, even in cold mornings. Even 30 - 45 seconds is rather a long time of warming up.

• It is better to idle your engine for a minute, than starting and stopping repeatedly. You consume equivalent amount of gas in both situations; but repeated starting and stopping of the car can harm the engine.

• Once the engine warms up, make sure that the automatic choke gets disengaged. This is because chokes have a tendency of getting stuck, which in turn leads to a bad gas and air mixture.

• It is always better to buy gasoline when the day is cool like in the early morning and late evening. This is because this is when gasoline is at its densest. Remember that gasoline that you buy in the fuel station is sold in terms of volume of the gasoline, and not on the density of fuel concentration.

• You have to avoid ‘revving’ your car engine unnecessarily, especially just before turning the engine off. This is because this only leads to wastage of fuel and also leads to oil getting washed down from the inside cylinder walls. All this is due to a loss in oil pressure.

• Always avoid filling your gas tank to the top. This is because overfilling of the tank leads to sloshing over where fuel falls out of the tank. If the nozzle is automatic, never fill gas past the first ‘click’ you hear in the fuel nozzle.

• The type and brand of gasoline that you choose and buy determines your gas mileage. There are some brands of better quality gasoline that provide you with good mileage. So use brands that look to be more beneficial to you.

• Remember to always remain in the legal speed limit. This is not only for your travelling safety, but also to achieve good gas mileage. This means that if you drive at speeds of 55 mph, you get a maximum of 21% better mileage than speeds of 65 - 70 mph.

• Moreover, the faster you go, the more wind resistance your car has to overcome.  And with fast speeds, in low gears, the car consumes more than 45% fuel than required.

• When travelling at high speeds, keep your windows closed as open windows only cause air drag where mileage is reduced by 10%.

• When you have to traverse hills, make it a point to accelerate before reaching the hill, and not when you are on the hill.

If you adopt all these tips when driving your car, you are sure to experience a better mileage in your car, which proves to be economical to you.

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