You bought your European car because performance is important to you, so why is your gas mileage so bad? Jackson Auto Repair wants you to know about these main contributors to bad gas mileage.
Problems in the Air/Fuel/Spark Formula
Your European car needs three major ingredients in order to make combustion happen: Fuel, air, and spark. If there’s something off with any of those three ingredients, nothing goes “boom” when it’s supposed to. That can cause misfiring, knocks and pings, and bad exhaust issues. It also really affects your car’s gas mileage, which ends up costing you all the way around.
Air Pressure Issues in Your Tires
Maintaining the right air pressure in your tires is absolutely crucial. First, it helps to protect the life of your tires. Too much or too little air in the tires causes problems and they’re not able to do their jobs properly. Uneven tire wear shortens the life of your tires, too. But it’s really important to remember that incorrect air pressure also dings your gas mileage.
Avoiding Oil Changes
Not getting your car’s oil changed when you should? If so, your gas mileage is likely suffering. That’s because engine oil has several main jobs. First, it lubricates the car’s engine. Second, it helps to keep your car’s engine a little cooler by pulling heat from the parts as it flows. Third, it cleans those same engine parts by taking dirt and dust with it. All of that helps your car’s engine to run at peak performance, which means good gas mileage. No oil changes, no peak performance and therefore bad gas mileage.
Questionable Driving Habits
You factor into this equation, too. How are you driving? Are you an aggressive driver who makes impulsive decisions out on the road or do you follow the rules and give drivers around you plenty of space? Whichever is accurate for you, those choices and the type of driving that you do, like lots of highway driving versus lots of stop-and-go driving in traffic, influence your car’s mileage.
Need better gas mileage? Of course you do. Bring your European car to Jackson Auto Repair in Jackson, TN. We can help you to figure out what’s causing the biggest issues for your car and help you plan out how to resolve those problems. If there are bigger problems causing performance issues for your car, our diagnostic testing will help to find out what’s happening.
