Ways to Save Petrol in your Car

activez · Jul 14, 2008

Just to share some tips in saving petrol in your car...

1) Do try to pump petrol in the morning hours, as this is the period (cooler temperature) whereby the petrol are denser, thus you will be getting more petrol per litre

2) Do top up your petrol tank when its half-filled rather than its near to empty tank.

3) Do reduce the load, esp in the boot area, of your car.

4) Do turn off the aircon, esp at night.

5) Do adjust your driving habit, such as not pressing too hard on the accelerator unnecessarily etc

If you have other good tips, pls share them here...

davsoo · Jul 14, 2008

more tips to save [petrol.

1. don't travel too far off course to top up.

2. don't wait until almost empty then top up. to avoid 1.

3. do fill up at the lowest speed at the station. some said fill up quickly can result in lost of some petrol via vapour.

4. park under cool shade. air con work less hard later. plus do not know if any petrol will vapourised off in the hot air.

5. some car make (kow toyota one) to roll like bicycle. can keep going for a very good distance without pressing the petrol.

6. avoid petrol station that do not have air pump working. they save cost but your tire will be under inflated until you find a working pump. so got to put the message thru. want to sell petrol got to provide working air pump.

Leongsam · Jul 14, 2008

activez said:
If you have other good tips, pls share them here...

Don't drive your car. You'll save heaps. :wink:

High Command · Jul 14, 2008

Leongsam said:
Don't drive your car. You'll save heaps.

Take public transport or better yet us a bicycle! Bicycles are good can keep in shape too! :biggrin:

davsoo · Jul 14, 2008

ya for short distance use electric/manual bicycle. might be faster as do not need to find parking

SammyHulk · Jul 14, 2008

Don't drive best lah. Ready need one and don't like to squeeze in public transport, go get a kup. :biggrin:

davsoo · Jul 14, 2008

also consider these.

1. make your car/bus/lorry aero dynamic. remove the extra part that causes drake.

2. change to a smaller car.
fit claim 1 ltr can travel 24km.

3. share a car if going to same place.

Microsoft · Jul 14, 2008

davsoo said:
fit claim 1 ltr can travel 24km.

My friend who own 1 say it's only abt 14-16 at best. :biggrin:

Sometime car manuf test em in outer space and post the spec on earth... Haizz..:p

SammyHulk · Jul 14, 2008

Microsoft said:
My friend who own 1 say it's only abt 14-16 at best.

Sometime car manuf test em in outer space and post the spec on earth... Haizz..:p

Woahahaha.......Good one bro. :biggrin:

Spud_Boy · Jul 14, 2008

Microsoft said:
My friend who own 1 say it's only abt 14-16 at best.

Sometime car manuf test em in outer space and post the spec on earth... Haizz..:p

well, manuf tend to usually proclaim better results, or not how to sell, right?

my friend's driving a Jazz.. usually 16 to 18, depending on road conditions.. but it's still pretty gd compared to others..

forumer · Jul 14, 2008

Microsoft said:
My friend who own 1 say it's only abt 14-16 at best.

Sometime car manuf test em in outer space and post the spec on earth... Haizz..:p

that's based on the japan 10-15 cycle testing method... not relevant in our context. Best to get reviews from owners.. oneshift website got quite accurate fuel consumption figures from owners

Affiliate · Jul 14, 2008

Me dun drive so dun affect me, but due to price increase in crude oil, everything went up.....

really must think of the way to stop the price of crude oil from raising further.....

hmmmmm...............

maybe the following site is the possible way.....

http://louistoh.biofuel.hop.clickbank.net/

or might as well use alternate fuel like "WATER".....

http://louistoh.water4gas.hop.clickbank.net/

Sure kena flame one but who cares.......

sunny302 · Jul 14, 2008

I believe that there was a test done by an independent lab on the various types of fuel available here and the findings were published in the Wheels & Motoring mag. The results showed thay if one is "light-footed" i.e. does not rev the engine beyond 2500 rpm, go for EXXON 95 whilst for "heavy-footed" drivers who rev the engine at 3000 rpm and beyond, SHELL 95 ron is the best.

If I can locate the report, will try to re-produce it here, Cheers

DiGeorge · Jul 16, 2008

Thanks for all the tips to save petrol :smile:

tonychat · Jul 16, 2008

Get a hybrid car.

xtrocious · Jul 16, 2008

tonychat said:
Get a hybrid car.

Just a note - Top Gear in its latest season did a test with a Toyota Prius and a BMW M3...

They got the Prius to do 1 lap around their race track at the fastest speed it could go and got the M3 to tail the Prius...

They found that the Prius actually consumed more petrol doing that fast lap than the M3...hahah

Their conclusion - get the right car for the right job :p

55cents · Jul 16, 2008

Remove spare tire . Lighten car for better mileage.

pweesng · Jul 16, 2008

actually cannot like that do test one...

reason:-
if i drive a m3, i want to go fast. hence i drive fast...

If i drive a hybrid, i want to save petrol, i will do all that is necessary to strech my mileage...

If i want to us the M3 to save petrol, or teh hybrid to go fast.... i will probably end up with screwy test results... hahaha which is most of the test done by jeremy and his gang anyway...

but yes, end of the day, use the right car for the right job...

Boss_555 · Jul 16, 2008

FYI. The government wants you to spend $$$$$ on petrol.

You buy a hybrid car the government will impost high import tax for the system end up paying at lease 10k to 15k more.

CNG going to have a 180% tax increase by early next year. (CNG takes donkey years for it to be installed island wide.) For those who installed CNG is going in for a rude shock next year.

Government currently tax 40-50% in petrol. It make no sense to import new technologies to help the public...

davsoo · Jul 16, 2008

microsoft, greetings.

was so bad. only 60% of that in spec.
i though in worse conditions still can go 20.

looks like ah honda really push it a bit too far.

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