What Can You Do to Get Better Mileage from Your Car?

Every car owner wants to get the best mileage from their car’s engine, and there’s more that you can do to make that happen than you might have ever realized. HRS AutoCare has these recommendations that can help you to get the best possible fuel mileage from your car.

How you drive matters more than you think when it comes to fuel mileage. When you’re honest about the fact that you like speeding or that you are just a more aggressive driver in general, it’s easier to see what’s happening with your fuel mileage. This is just one part of the fuel mileage puzzle, but it’s an important part.

If you could only do one thing to help make your car’s fuel mileage improve, it should be checking your tire pressure regularly. The wrong tire pressure means that your car’s engine is having to fight harder to keep the tires moving. It also means that you’re able to extend the life of your tires way more than you realize. Not sure what the right tire pressure is for your car? Check either the sticker inside the driver’s side door or the owner’s manual for those details.

The recommended services laid out in your car’s owner’s manual are there to keep every system in the car properly maintained. But that also means that you’re going to end up with an engine that is running as efficiently as possible. That translates to better gas mileage overall. Other issues might impact fuel mileage negatively, but when you’re doing all of the recommended maintenance as you should, that keeps things from being worse than they could have been. 

The more items you have in your car, the heavier the car is. Your car’s engine is designed to run optimally at a certain weight and when you keep adding things to the car, that gets you closer and closer to the outer limits of what the engine can handle. That’s a lot to expect, and what you might end up dealing with is worse fuel mileage than you expect. 

If you’re still not seeing the improvements in your fuel mileage that you want to see and you’ve tried all of these tips, there might be more going on. Call us today at HRS AutoCare in Nicholasville, KY and we can diagnose the trouble for you.