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5 Tips For Your Car’s Better Fuel Management

Team AckoJan 17, 2024

Rising fuel prices are an economic issue as well as a personal finance issue. Your budgeting can go for a toss if you rely on your vehicle for daily travel and your vehicle relies a lot on expensive fuel. People in western countries have already started looking at electric cars as a viable option.

While people are slowly and steadily getting used to the concept of hybrid cars, electric cars are still a distant dream when it comes to masses in India. For example, for electric cars to become a norm, adequate infrastructure needs to be in place with respect to charging stations. Till that time, most of the drivers will have to rely on fuel-driven cars. Here are some tips to ensure that your car doesn’t consume a lot of fuel and offers a decent mileage.

Contents

Timely Maintenance
Smooth Driving
Appropriate Tire Pressure
Travel Light
Miscellaneous
Follow Rules and Regulations

Timely Maintenance

Regular maintenance can work wonders for your car. A well-maintained car is known to offer better mileage. The frequency of your car’s servicing session depends upon your usage. Workshops offer an Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) to regularly service your car. If your car is facing certain issues, convey them to the mechanic before servicing. Changing the vehicle’s oil, oil filter, and air filter are basic activities performed during the servicing session.

Smooth Driving

Pressing the clutch, changing the gear, accelerating, braking, and repeating are not seen as different activities by smooth drivers. All of this happens in one seamless motion. Whereas some people find this process extremely complex. Polishing your driving skills can help you to get the most out of your fuel as a well-driven car consumes less fuel as compared to a car that is driven in a rough and amateur manner.

Appropriate Tire Pressure

Car manufacturers stipulate an adequate tire pressure for their vehicles. Appropriate tire pressure differs when the car is driven within city limits and when it is driven on inter-state highways. A car with tires that are not appropriately inflated needs to be dragged, the car consumes more fuel in doing so. Appropriate tire pressure enables the car to move swiftly without placing a huge load on the car’s engine. This way it consumes less fuel.

Travel Light

A car filled with unnecessary stuff is bound to consume more fuel than a car that doesn’t carry enough weight. Some people use their four-wheeler as a portable store room! This takes a toll on the car’s engine as it has to carry the extra load. In the process, it consumes more fuel.

Miscellaneous

Nowadays, almost everyone has Smartphones with internet access. Instead of driving around in search of a destination, using online maps can help you to not only reach your destination quickly but also to burn less fuel during the journey. Short journey, less fuel.

No one likes to get stuck in traffic. More so if your car consumes more fuel. Try avoiding certain routes that are always congested, or time your travel in a way to avoid traffic for mental peace, evade pollution, and ensure better fuel management.

Follow Rules and Regulations

Good drivers not only develop their driving skills but also follow traffic rules and regulations. Driving can be dangerous to you as well as to others. This makes it all the more important to practice safe driving. Driving within speed limits, respecting the traffic signal, maintaining lane discipline, etc. can go a long way in keeping your car accident-free. As a precautionary measure, you can also opt for a Comprehensive Car Insurance policy. Digitization has made it extremely easy to purchase car insurance online.

Disclaimer: The content on this page is generic and shared only for informational and explanatory purposes. It is based on industry experience and several secondary sources on the internet; and is subject to changes. Please go through the applicable policy wordings for updated ACKO-centric content and before making any insurance-related decisions.

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