Most of these tips are common sense but a good refresher anyways.
This is targeted towards the Isuzu Dmax but can be applied to any vehicle
http://www.isuzuute.com.au/Publications/MaxYourTank.htm
If you have any other tips please post :D
25 Fuel Saving Tips
m0nkeycheese on 18/05/2012 - 01:46
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That's an awful lot to copy and paste. Plus using the link lets the original author know their effort is not a waste therefore more likely to be repeated.
I was going to but it had a copyright at the bottom saying not to reproduce so I though id better not.. Plus it has pictures hehe
mmm "Don't drive" is a fuel saving tip ?
Does it save fuel?
Cool, thanks
Aw, they don't even mention turning the engine off and/or coasting - they're not really serious about saving fuel at all! :-p…
I read somewhere if are still and idling (for instance at traffic lights) for more than 8 seconds, then you would have saved fuel by turning the engine off. So when I'm approaching traffic lights (and you can often tell when they're going to go red before you get there), and if I remember to do it, I turn the engine off and roll to the lights. So I save say, 30 seconds of fuel + however long I have to wait for a green light.
I recently started over-inflating tyres too (look up "hypermiling").
When we had a manual car, I used to turn the engine off constantly - just let the clutch out when I wanted to restart. Can't do it anywhere near as much with an automatic and power steering. You lose the vacuum that operates your brakes and steering much sooner. :-(
Don't turn off the car if you need the brakes…you'll lose them pretty quickly! I watch light cycles and if it's going to be more than 30secs or so I'll turn off and on.
You don't use any fuel if your coasting downhill in gear, the ECU will stop providing any fuel to the engine which is why the engine actually acts (slightly for a petrol engine, more so for a diesel) as a brake. And then you can save wearing your brakes too.
In my old buzz box (pulsar) I used to switch the A/C on when going down hills and use this as a brake with the added benefit of cooling down the car in summer!
Better to coast than lose the momentum with engine braking. Also it is not advisable to turn off the engine in a moving car as you will lose power on all assistance with steering, braking, ABS, stability control, etc.
tragic story a few years ago about a car full of teenagers which crashed and killed all 3 or 4 on board. it is believed that the driver turned off the engine to cruise down the hill an dlost all brake power and panicked and crash.
Depends on the car, and you have to know it well. Our previous car would give about 5 full and hard thrusts on the brake pedal before running out of brake vacuum. When you came close to running out of brakes, just let the clutch out partly (key off) to gain another 5 punches.
That's moving up-down on the pedal. If you just held the pedal in one spot, it still worked as if the car was running - you only slowly lost braking when you were constantly up-down on the brakes.
There's one road where we used to live… I used to drive the manual for 8 minutes with the engine off, and get up to 90km/hr just coasting.
@RFM
18 LOOK AHEAD
Always read the road some distance ahead.
Maintain space to the car in front and
anticipate what will happen next, including
traffic light changes and the movements of
other vehicles or pedestrians. You can then
maintain a consistent speed and reduce the
need to stop and start, which guzzles fuel.
If you see a hill ahead, accelerate gently
before getting to it, then trade off some
of that extra speed to save fuel on the
incline. If you see traffic slowing or
a red light, back off immediately. If
you’re likely to be stopped for 30 seconds
or more, turn off the engine
on the front page they say they did two trips where they got 4.8L/100k and 4.4L/100k but lower down in the fine print they state it was done at lower than posted speed limits and in low traffic conditions, i.e not much stop/start driving that uses the most fuel in normal urban areas, not quite a fair comparison! it's not like us non-country folk can choose to drive with almost no other drivers on the road! well, except for people like shift workers who drive @3am…
Copy and post the tips please. Thanks ;)