Tips for Getting Maximum Mileage From Vehicle

To maximize the vehicle mileage one has to be careful about the below listed aspects about vehicle fueling, tyre pressure, driving style and speed that may adversely affect the vehicle fuel consumption, a little care can give favorable results to your pocket :-

1. The fueling if done early in the morning is best. As the ground temperature and the ground tanks temperature at this time of the day is the least. The fuel at fuel stations is stored in the ground tanks, the morning fueling thus ensures that one gets maximum fuel because density of the fuel is maximum at lower temperature, it reduces drastically with increase in the day temperature. The fuel stations don't have temperature compensation so the fuel stations gain by selling fuel during the day due to lower density of fuel.

2. The fuel should be pumped into the vehicle tank in slow mode, this ensures minimum vaporization of fuel, more the vaporization lesser the fuel you actually get.

3. Refill the tank when it is half full instead of filling when it empties fully, this ensures that less air is there in the fuel tank to occupy the empty space as it reduces evaporation of fuel from tank.

4. Vehicle tyre pressure should be maintained at the specified to get best trade off between mileage and tyre wear and tear. Another aspect is the tyre width, more the tyre width the better is the road grip. But broader the tyre lower is the mileage, therefore a reasonable trade off is again necessary between fuel mileage and road grip when choosing a tyre.

5. The driving aspects that affect fuel mileage are speed, braking and use of clutch pedal. Needless to say that driving at rated economical speed band of the vehicle is the best to get maximum mileage. Braking does change the kinetic energy of the vehicle to heat energy that results due to rubbing of brake pads in the brake drums of the vehicle. Therefore excess use of brakes and clutch pedal does lower the vehicle mileage.

6. Little consideration to above brought out tips may go a long way to ensure higher vehicle mileage and safer driving.