OK people, It’s crunch time! Gas prices are pushing $4.00 per gallon. The radio, news papers and TV are running articles and spots daily featuring how much gas is going up and the ways that the price of oil will effect your daily life. Now more than ever you need to find ways to improve your gas mileage. Some sources have even advised trading your present car in for a hybrid. Well how’s this for a tip? If you follow our advice, you can improve your gas mileage enough to see hybrid type savings without having to actually buy a new hybrid.
By just slightly altering your driving habits you can improve your gas mileage by up to 38 percent immediately, depending on how you drive. Use several of these tips, perform regular routine maintenance and install a few of the relatively inexpensive but proven add-ons we recommend, and you will improve your gas mileage enough to save real dollars, and not just a few pennies here and there.
There are no miracles involved here. All we did was take several of the most common tips and popular proven products out there, while making sure that our test vehicles were properly maintained and at factory specs, and put them to the test in the Chicago area. Some of the methods that we targeted to improve your gas mileage worked, some did not. We’ll highlight only those that will improve your gas mileage without getting silly about it. After all, we found several things that will improve your gas mileage that were not at all practical or cost effective. Some were downright ridiculous. Since you might get a laugh out of some of these examples, we will sprinkle the site with a few of them too.
The Chicago area is a great place to do testing like this. You get a great variation in traffic types. You go from the bumper to bumper morning rush on the Kennedy express way to the wide open I88 out past Aurora IL where you might not see anything but corn for fifty miles to the moderate mid-day stop and go traffic of suburbia. The terrain is not flat nor is it mountainous. It’s a great place to assess all sorts of ways for you to improve your gas mileage. Our test vehicles are our own vehicles. We used everything from a 1994 Honda Accord to a 2009 Ford F150 and just about everything in between. The vehicle mileages also varied greatly. We had some with less than 25,000 miles and some with more than 250,000 miles. We were looking for ways to improve your gas mileage, no matter what you drive or what kind of miles you have on your car.
The surprising thing about what we found is that all you need to do to improve your gas mileage is changing your driving habits, perform routine maintenance and invest a little extra in your car in the form of gas saving accessories. Stack a few of these winners together and we’ll bet that you’ll improve your gas mileage enough to see a substantial savings at the pump without buying a new car.