This test will help you to learn whether you save gasoline while traveling or you are a real big spender.
Find out what you driver: spender or super saver professional.
All know: two of the drivers cars of the same brand, at the same stage of the journey will be different flow rates.
This difference depends on the manner of driving and ability to build your route. Take our quiz and determine whether are you able to drive your car sparingly. And if not, what you need to do to learn this.
1. You like to sleep late so jump out of the house in the morning at the last moment and then rush headlong on the highway.
2. You have in stock there are always a few options of routes. Knowing ahead of time the situation with the tubes, you choose the
optimal. If you can see that all entrances to the house congestion, prefer to wait out the stagnant period in the cafe than to while away the time at the helm in traffic.
3. You — the driver-Cheetah: love to overtake, to cut. In General, go to adrenaline increased not only you, but all road users. And the distance may hold their “dummies”, which only recently got behind the wheel.
4. The nickname of a hoarder — it’s about you. What you have in the trunk: and the old hose, and a box of beer, and forgotten Bank of cucumbers last year.
5. In the summer you like to ride with the wind so the Windows were wide open. Pleasant and savings, since air conditioning “eats” as much fuel. If the music to include the entire capacity of the drive is guaranteed.
6. You regularly call in to the service station, even when there are no visible problems. Just for prevention.
7. You know how to count money, and therefore have found several gas stations with the lowest prices.
8. You are so fused with his car that even in a shop within a 10-minute walk from the house to go on it.
THE KEY TO THE TEST
You get a point for each answer “Yes” to questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, and for each answer “No” to questions 2, 6, 8.
From 5 to 7 points. You supertrader, which allows for all conceivable errors, leading to excessive fuel consumption.
From 3 to 5 points. You drive quite economically, but you don’t have the discipline. Go to work earlier than half an hour, stop off at one HUNDRED for the prevention — and you will be saving.
From 0 to 2 points. You know that overtaking on faster will not make it that cheap fuel can damage the engine failure, etc. Thanks to the professionalism you are able to consume fuel optimally.
HOW YOUR DRIVING STYLE AFFECTS THE APPETITE OF THE CAR
HABIT 1. Each car has a limit of speed beyond which fuel consumption increases. Read the documentation, as well as the opinions of experienced owners to understand what mark ends of the speedometer eco mode. This is especially true on the track where the difference in consumption between, say, 90 km/h and 120 km/h can be 1-2 liters or more. And this is saving at least 20-40 USD on each hundred kilometers, while the travel time will increase slightly.
HABIT 2. Congestion is not just a waste of time. The constant acceleration and stopping, the movement on the first-second gear quickly empties the gas tank. As practice shows, often enough to leave half an hour earlier to have time to slip potentially “stagnant” places that are known to every driver: bridges, narrow roads, areas with traffic lights and an interchange. Adjust the chart using the Navigator, showing the tube and making a detour to avoid congestion — and fuel consumption falls.
HABIT 3. Just more fuel an engine consumes during acceleration. Well, when the machine can show “5 seconds before the hundreds”, but maximum dynamics really only needed when overtaking, to as little as possible to be on the wrong side. The city does not make sense to accelerate, trying to outrun the flood: still staying with the others at the next light. In addition, observance of a distance is not only one of the recognized ways to protect yourself on the road. In dense urban traffic it often provides the opportunity to slow down to a complete stop at the entrance to the red light of the traffic light. And in General allows you to smoothly slow down and accelerate, so less to open the injectors.
You also need to understand that the laws of physics, air resistance is proportional to the square of the speed. That is, if the car consumes about 7-8 liters per 100 km at a moderate speed about 80 km/h, 100 km/h its appetite will grow to 9-9,5 l, and at 180 km/h it will “eat” is 16-18 liters per hundred. So “to fly” not worth it!
HABIT 4. Every 50 kg of extra weight leads to an increase in fuel consumption by 3-5%. If you need something to carry, it is better to use aeropoxy: their shape minimizes the resistance of the car to a counter stream of air.
HABIT 5. The fuel consumption while driving subcompact cars at a speed of 110 km/h with the included air conditioning and closed Windows is about 8 liters. But the open window when off kendisine” will cost 10.5 L. the reason is simple: the air conditioning “brakes” the engine is smaller than the aerodynamic resistance of open Windows.
HABIT 6. Admit it, how many drivers, even experienced, regularly monitor the tyre pressure? Alas, often it begins to bother only when there are clear visual signs at half-mast wheels. But riding on a flat tyre dramatically increases not only fuel consumption, but the wear on the tires. Worth checking the pressure in them at least twice a month. Another example. The cost of filters — air, fuel, — only a few tens of hryvnia. Clogged with dirt the filter itself leads to increased consumption, but this is not the most unpleasant thing: sooner or later, from insufficient cleaning of the components of the fuel mixture injector are suffering. And then consumption is increased significantly and fuel, and cleaning or replacement of injectors. Therefore, it is necessary to regularly drop a HUNDRED for profdiagnostik.
HABIT 7. Wholesale sales of gasoline and diesel fuel is in tonnes, and retail — in litres. So, the lower the density of the gasoline sold, the more litres of petrol stations sell a ton. So, we have standards permitted density of gasoline of 95-Euro range 720-775 kg/cu. m. At the same time, one ton of gasoline with a density of 775 kg/cubic meter of gas stations sell 1290 liters of gasoline, and with a density of 720 kg/cubic meter — 1390. Both are permissible according to GOST and gas stations profitable to sell lower-quality gasoline. Note, the density of gasoline is directly proportional to its heat of combustion, that is directly affects the fuel consumption of the vehicle. Therefore, do not chase the cheaper fuel.
HABIT 8. “Our people in the bakery on your car do not go” — so to paraphrase the famous quote from “the Diamond hand”. Today it is a luxury.
GENERAL COUNCIL. To perform your tasks for a day, a half hour. This simple act allows us to solve problems requiring movement on the car more comprehensively, avoiding return trips. And travel for long distances it is possible to unite with friends, family, colleagues — and then the benefit will be obvious.
