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Fuel Efficient Driving Tips

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Some car owners generally complain about the low mileage of their new cars but very few of them try to explore the probable reasons. Recently, we conducted a survey to identify the awareness level among the car owners. Most car owners were not satisfied with their cars performance and the most common reason was the mileage. Data analysis showed that most of the car owners were not conscious about their driving habits. After identifying the common weak points in driving habits, our experts listed following guidelines for the people, who are really serious for improving the performance of their vehicles.

* Every time you go to drive long, eyeball your car. Is it sitting square or doest it has some tilt?  * Inspect for fluids drops on the floor and observe the tyres condition.

* Check the tyre pressure at least once a week under cold condition.

* Don’t drive in aggressive mood as it encourages for rapid acceleration, unnecessary or delay gear shifting and more frequent braking at high speed.

* Every vehicle is designed for a particular optimized speed at which it delivers maximum mileage per liter.

* Keep the vehicle moving slowly to avoid a halt position because when after being in idle position, you use a low gear to move your car again, it consumes more fuel than driving the vehicle slowly.

* While starting the vehicle, dip the clutch before starting the engine. It reduces the drag on flywheel.

* Avoid reversing the vehicle with cold engine. A cold engine consumes more gas and the reverse gear has most inefficient fuel gear ratio.

* Accelerate smoothly. Harsh acceleration causes lot of unburnt fuel ejected through exhaust system in the form of black smoke.

* Brake smoothly. Harsh braking wastes energy produced by fuel burning. Apart from it, this habit reduces the life of tyres.

Just follow these fuel efficient driving tips, you will feel the difference in fuel economy of the same car.

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Tyre Up-sizing

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

If you are the one out of few who want to remain attraction center of the gatherings or who are fond of driving customized cars, most probably you would have thought of upsizing your car tyres. Tyre upsizing brings massive appealing change in the appearance of your car. I had become fad up with my existing car look but had no means to replace it. A Ceat tyre adviser, who is my close friend, advised me to upsize my car tyres for fresh look. The following tips, which he shared, will help you too in upsizing your car tyres with more confidence.

Till some years back, cars used to have 15 or 16 inches wheels. But, now the options of having 16, 17 18 or even 20 inches tyres are also available. Choosing the size for tyres upsizing is not just the matter of personal choice you need to consider the configuration of car also. The rolling diameter i.e. overall height is the most important aspect to be considered. Upsizing your car tyres may need the modification of suspension. Big wheels having large rim space but the same rolling diameter may solve this problem.

Anti-lock brake, speedometer and odometer are calibrated for the recommended rolling diameter. Ideally, the variation in rolling diameter shouldn’t exceed 3% from factory recommendations, otherwise space adjusters will have to be used. With the increase in size of wheel, sidewall gets shorter; it means that tyres will hold less air. The solution to this problem is the wide tyres with more air pressure.

I am lucky that I have a tyre specialist friend, you too,before going for upsizing of tyres, consult with the customer advisers of reputed tyre brand outlets in your city. After all, it is not only about the aesthetic look of your car, your safety is the primary concern.

If you are the one out of few who want to remain attraction center of the gatherings or who are fond of driving customized cars, most probably you would have thought of upsizing your car tyres. Tyre upsizing brings massive appealing change in the appearance of your car. I had become fad up with my existing car look but had no means to replace it. A Ceat tyre adviser, who is my close friend, advised me to upsize my car tyres for fresh look. The following tips, which he shared, will help you too in upsizing your car tyres with more confidence.

Till some years back, cars used to have 15 or 16 inches wheels. But, now the options of having 16, 17 18 or even 20 inches tyres are also available. Choosing the size for tyres upsizing is not just the matter of personal choice you need to consider the configuration of car also. The rolling diameter i.e. overall height is the most important aspect to be considered. Upsizing your car tyres may need the modification of suspension. Big wheels having large rim space but the same rolling diameter may solve this problem.

Anti-lock brake, speedometer and odometer are calibrated for the recommended rolling diameter. Ideally, the variation in rolling diameter shouldn’t exceed 3% from factory recommendations, otherwise space adjusters will have to be used. With the increase in size of wheel, sidewall gets shorter; it means that tyres will hold less air. The solution to this problem is the wide tyres with more air pressure.

I am lucky that I have a tyre specialist friend, you too,before going for upsizing of tyres, consult with the customer advisers of reputed tyre brand outlets in your city. After all, it is not only about the aesthetic look of your car, your safety is the primary concern.

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How To Judge The Tyre Quality?

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The heat of recent recession period is still being felt by many like me and you. The advice of the car mechanic to change the tyres comes as a blow for many of us despite of knowing the importance of having good tyres in the car. Sometimes these opinions are found biased because of many reasons. Here are some tips to judge the quality of the tyres from Technical Adviser (CEAT Tyres).

Every tyre bears four wear markers around the circumference. When you notice flush wear marker, it means that your tyre has 1.6mm or less of tread left. This is the time you must change the tyre. Tyres can wear unevenly so check the tyre thoroughly to ensure left out tread depth. Tyres having tread depth around 2mm should be changed. Tread depth meters are made available at branded tyres outlet. Motor safety organizations recommend that tyres having tread depth of 3mm should be replaced because the current legal limit of 1.6 mm isn’t sufficient to protect drivers during adverse driving conditions. Penny test is another popular method to judge the tire quality.

Every tyre contains certain amount of moisture and oil, with the passage of time both of these get evaporated making the tyre too hard. Normally, tyres are designed for four to five years, so the use of tyre is not only the criteria to change the tyres.Physical cuts, bulge, deep marks on the sidewall and deformation are also the strong indications for the change of tyres.

If you are not confident about the condition of your tyres, you may visit CEAT like branded tyres outlets to get free quality check and unbiased opinion of experts.

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