A look at 5 parts that could be making your car or truck thirsty
Millions of drivers waste fuel needlessly every day, without even realizing it. Whether by carrying around extra weight or running a vehicle that’s in need of maintenance, bad fuel mileage often creeps up slowly – swilling away your hard-earned money, and contributing to excessive emissions. If you don’t monitor your vehicle’s fuel consumption regularly, increased fuel consumption can be even harder to detect.
Is your ride running at maximum efficiency, or is it wasting your money and polluting needlessly? If you’re not sure, here’s a look at four parts that can be easily replaced and one that should be removed when not in use, as a starting point, to help ensure your car, SUV or pickup isn’t drinking more than its fair share of fuel.
Replace air filter for better mileage; old school when we had carburetors that metered a fixed amount of fuel. All modern FI system adjust the amount of fuel to the incoming amount of air by using the oxygen sensor to balance the air fuel ratio. Less air means less fuel means less horsepower. Your car will get better fuel mileage cruising on the elevated plains of eastern Colorado where a a lot of horsepower is not needed to push the car down the road.
Drag; low tire pressure and roof racks will have an impact on fuel mileage. Excessive weight will also have an impact of fuel mileage.
Spark plugs, wires Really? It's not 1969 anymore! We can reasonable go 100,000+ miles with coil on plug iridium spark plugs and unleaded fuel.
i agree a lot of these things seems a bit out dated
granted i can see the reasoning behind some of the stuff
but with how much computers are running current cars
it's hard to imagine these mod's will effect gas mileage no more then just changing your driving habits.