Pumping your car tyre can save your fuel consumption

Posted by Chidinma on Wednesday May 6, 2015 at 10:52:28:

Owning a car should not be a liability to a car owner. When you start paying too much to maintain and fuel your car, it has automatically turned to a liability.

Saving money on fuel consumption is one thing every car owner should know about because spending too much money on fuel every time you make use of your car is not always wise.

Some of the major things that consume fuel the most in car are;

i. Frequent use of car Air Conditioner: it is said that making use of the Air Conditioner in a car increases the fuel consumption rate by 5%

ii. Over loading: a car burns a extra 2% of fuel for every 50kg load it carry

iii. Under inflated Tyres: under inflated tyres is the number one cause fuel consumption and many car owners are very guilty of this and keep wondering why their car consumes more fuel.

I will briefly look into why deflated tyres makes a car to consume more fuel and how to solution to save more fuel.

Under inflated tyres increase resistance to speed and in turn raises the fuel consumption needed for the car to maintain speed; that is why you burn more fuel once your tyres are deflated.

The only solution to this is to ensure that the tyres of your car are never deflated; car owners are advantages to always pump their car tyres once a week; you can actually get an automatic tyre pump to save you from taking a weekly trip to a vulcanizer’s shop to get your tyres pumped and guaged so that they have the recommended tyre pressure.