Goss’ Garage Fuel Economy tips

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  1. Goss' Garage Fuel Economy tips

Chances are there are lost of ways to improve fuel economy and lost of ways to waste money trying to improve fuel economy.

Not the least of which are these miracles fuel improvers. They don’t work don’t waste your money. Now you may have a diesel engine and you may be tempted to run that diesel engine on vegetable oil, well do it, it will work for now but it will cause internal engine damage from deposits over along the long haul and remember if you live where it gets chilly in the morning then vegetable oil may look like this lard on a cold morning and in the end the engine isn’t going to run. Something else to be concerned with, most parts of the country have new fuel.

Its called E 10. its 10% Ethnol and 90% like gasoline. Now Ethanol is a renewable resource and it cleans up tail pipe emissions but it lowers fuel economy and don’t confuse it with E 85 which is 85% ethanol and must only be used in cars that are flex fuel capable. Now some of the practical things - tyre pressure check it regularly, set the tyres to the specification inside the door of your car, clean fuel filter, good spark plugs and there are some sensors that can dramatically reduce fuel economy.

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