Over the last two years we have seen major fluctuations in the price of gas due to the global oil crisis and the economy. More recently we have seen the price of gas come way down. This has caused people to relax and start driving their big SUV’s again/more. It’s amazing how soon people forget things. Gas is not an infinite resource. The world’s addiction to oil has left massive wounds in the environment as well as massive bloodshed. The environment has paid dearly in our quest for black gold. From the greenhouse gasses released when we burn it, to the pollution in the seas and lands when it is used and spilled, oil has definitely wreaked havoc on our people and global environments. This doesn’t even begin to take into account the pollution from vehicle production nor the pollution from using oil in our vehicles

We need to wean ourselves from oil some. By learning to use it less we will be helping the planet and saving some money at the same time. For each gallon of gas that you use, over 20 pounds of carbon dioxide is released. This carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming and climate change. The carbon dioxide is produced not by the gas (as most people think) but by the reaction between the oxygen and the gas as it is burned.

 

Use less gas

So with this in mind here are some tip to help you consume less gas. Using these tips will help make a tank of gas go further, and will also save you some serious money. All while helping you to live a little greener. Mother Nature would be proud.

Driving Habit
Bad driving habits can lower your gas mileage by as much as a third. Aggressive driving is hard on your car and its parts as well. Practices such as: speeding, sharp braking, rapid speeding up and slowing down also known as “jackrabbiting” all are horrible on gas mileage

Excessive Weight
Some of us (me included) tend to “live” in our cars. The slowly fill up and become storage spaces for “stuff”. Every pound that you carry is more that your car has to move. Remember the last time you moved something heavy like a couch or bed.  How would you like to move it again with someone sitting on it? It does make a difference. It’s not unusual for people to carry excess baggage or extra equipment or tools that add up to the weight of a person. Make it a habit to regularly clean out your car because EVERY pound counts.

Avoid idling for long periods
In Many countries when you come to a traffic light and have to stop, the law says you have to stop your engine as well.  While it sounds funny, there is logic there. Each year millions of gallons of gas are burned just while waiting for the light to change. If we were to cut these millions of gallons out…the price of gas would drop. If your car is reliable, don’t idle for more than about 30 seconds, just cut it off. Over the course of a year you will save many gallons of gas. This also means you will save money. And of course you will be helping the environment by not creating greenhouse gasses. While this is all well and good, you still need to use some common sense and be discerning of how much you start and stop your engine. Excessive starting and stopping will cause excessive strain on the ignition system and cause extra wear and tear on the parts.

Engine tuning
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of parts under the hood of your car. That means that your car’s engine is a very advanced machine. This machine works in a very precise way. To be efficient it must be tuned precisely. Over time, due to wear and tear, it will come out of tune. This seriously impacts your gas mileage. Having your car tuned is a completely separate process from a basic service. This tuning involves: adjusting the cars idle speed, fuel/air mixture, carburetor balance or injector maintenance, spark plug gaps, distributor gaps, and ignition timing. While this does cost a little, you will recoup this cost and then some by having a more efficient running engine.

Air filters
Air filters filter the air that allows your engine to burn the gas. When these become clogged, it can allow dirt into the engine as well as not allow enough air in. this will lower your fuel efficiency, and can cause damage to your engine. Having a clean air filter can save you about 15% in gas.

Properly inflated tires
When your tires become low on air it causes drag. This drag makes it harder for the car to turn the tires. This has a negative impact on your fuel economy, safety, and wear on the tires. You can find all sorts of figures on how much you can save by keeping your tires properly inflated. The main point here is that you should keep them inflated to the manufacturer’s specifications written on the side of the tire.

Motor Oil
The blood in our veins keeps us alive. Likewise the oil in your motor keeps it alive. It’s all about reducing friction. Friction means heat, and that’s bad for an engine. Keeping the engine cool and keeping the right type of oil in your engine will give you better fuel economy. It will also help you engine to last longer.

Avoid short trips
Engines tend to use more fuel when they are cold, and most short trips will not allow the engine to heat up. When the engine isn’t fully heated it cannot burn fuel efficiently. This results in poor fuel economy and more greenhouse gas being spit into the air. Plan your trips so that you can make the most of them. This will allow you to use the car as little as possible and not have to go out in the car more than necessary.

Octane
The octane rating of gas, measures how much fuel can be compressed before it ignites. This is rather than being ignited by the sparks. Matching this octane rating with your engine can have a wonderful impact on your fuel economy. However not having the correct octane for your engine can affect more than just your fuel economy; it can actually hurt your engine parts. Check with your car manufacturer to see which octane is correct for your car’s engine.

Warming the Engine
I was taught that you need to warm the engine of your car for several minutes before driving it. After doing some research on this, it seems that you only need to warm an engine for about 30-40 seconds. It’s best to check with your mechanic though. Or at least wait until the idle slows after starting.

Choke Sticking
Automatic chokes are terrible about sticking after an engine has warmed. This causes the gas to be burnt poorly and will have a negative impact or your fuel economy. You can easily tell if the choke on your car is sticking, as the idle of the engine will be faster after it has reached the normal operating temperature. Also you can usually smell exhaust in the car. You can normally tap on the gas pedal quickly and it will unstick allowing the idle to fall back to normal, but this is a point that should be raised with your mechanic.

The correct gear
Staying in a lower gear and letting the engine rev in the upper rpm range for extended periods consumes a massive amount of gasoline. Also revving like this will spit larger than normal amounts of greenhouse into the air because the engine needs more air than normal to burn the gas faster than normal. This is why you see the huge intakes and superchargers sticking out of the hood on drag race cars on TV. Running at high rpm’s takes enormous amounts of air

Open Windows and External Items
When on the highway running fast enough to hear the air (generally over about 30 or 40), an open window will cause a huge amount of drag. This drag causes the car to have to work harder to maintain the same speed. This also applies to pulling a trailer, also a roof rack. This is why big trucks have a curved roof piece on top of the cab. This is used to push the air up and over the trailer. As for open windows, recent studies have shown that today’s automobile engines have become efficient enough that you will get better fuel mileage by using your air conditioner instead of opening the windows.

Hills
Hills are not something that we often think about when you talk gas mileage. However they play their role in the big scheme. After all you have to push the gas in going up the hill don’t you? It’s best to accelerate before the hill, rather than on it.

Gravel and Rough roads
Gravel and rough roads can destroy gas mileage, as the car loses traction when on them. Tires spin or have to use excessive power to come out of potholes. Simply avoid these roads if at all possible.

Car Accessories
Accessories on cars use electricity, and using electricity puts a strain on the engine. This means, if it’s electric, it will impact your gas mileage. Some of these things that you may not think about are: air conditioners, heaters, stereo, lights, power seats, and seat warmers, power inverters to run your cell phone or laptop.

Using these tips will help you to save money and help the environment in the process. But if you really want to make a big difference get a hybrid or a bicycle, and stop using gas almost completely. But most of us can’t afford to buy that hybrid just yet. So just remember that oil is becoming scarcer each and every day. Just because the fuel prices may drop doesn’t mean the problem goes away. One day the oil will be gone.

Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible – all which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and incorporating them in a way that works for you.

Choose the types of foods that improve your health and avoid the types of foods that raise your risk for such illnesses as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Expand your range of healthy choices to include a wide variety of delicious foods. Learn to use guidelines and tips for creating and maintaining a satisfying, healthy diet.

source:www.helpguide.org

For your day-to-day motoring kabriolet alias car roof can be opened and closed easily (convertible top), should keep the soft-top condition to remain prime. The best way to wash the soft-top is the hand (hand-washed).

Or if you want to set aside a little money, you can bring soft-top that has been released from the order, to the laundry. This treatment can extend the age of soft-top of your car.

Helmut Pless, Technical Director of Mercedes-Benz Classic Center recommends several steps. First, clean soft-top with warm water, then wash with a mild soap. You can create one with a mixture of two teaspoon soap and 10 liters of water.

Use a fine brush, and brush start from the front to the back and should not be pressed too hard. Rinse again to really clean from the soap. Finally,dry and do not try to exposed to sunlight directly.

In addition, you should not forget the environmental factors. Wash your soft-top in place that should be washing. You should also not recommended to wash with water spout high pressure.

If you kabriolet wet, while driving around the city so little dry. After that, you can release the new soft-top for dried.

If your lap-top in soft dampness, not only at risk but also contain fungi cause fold-fold and disheveled, and shorten the age of soft-top of your car.

Pelg outgrows, thin tire really moy to jack up car prestige. On their behalf that fond practical really no matter. Take car for workshop to modify, vote for tire and pelg, the day after tomorrow is taken. All squares... But pelg's tofu outgrows and flimsy tire have minus's plus appealed by innate default tire factory.
 
Put together pelg gets big diameter with super's tire wall wins by a nose really good looks and so tren. Modification was finished if pelg was traded. Progressively wins by a nose tire wall, the greater pelg, becoming tall its prestige.
 
Tren this starts departed of arena race that presto contaminates for room to modify. At circuit, pelg outgrows with tire wall wins by a nose (profile contemns) and broad tread really advantage racer because car becomes livelier and responsif at curve.
 
Besides unchanged almost tire diameter, so not necessarily adjusts again speedometer and odometer. Pelg outgrows also perform fair manners and red blooded. Be not been disowned, factor this is glow main thruster it tren this at society.
 
Substituting innate pelg factory (OE / original equipment) with one gets greater diameter known as plus sizing. In otomotif's treasury this terminology then recognised one's plus, its mean add pelg's diameter 1 inchi from OE. Example of 15 inchi becomes 16 inchi. Such too two's plus, add two inchi, of 15 inchi 17th inchi, and so on.
 
Apparently, according to examination Consumer Report, consumerism institute at USA, one's plus evident result greatest gain of nurginal peforma. two's plus and so on just give energy affix grasps temporary few convenience steer, hydroplaning resistance, and traksi anjlok. Price who shall be paid also more expensive. So the greater is not always progressively advantage. sizing's plus not also recommended for SUV to except really option of its factory.
 
In consequence, if was pleased with handling and for cozy to get car ride, that institute suggests to forget sizing's plus. Even faithful with OE.
 
 
Sizing's Plus jeopardy
 
If don't, begin with regard its jeopardy. Tire with pelg outgrows and low profile really responsive is ridden at flawless road. On the contrary is cleared a root gets hole / crude, tire can't muffle perfectly. Pengendaraan becomes not cozy. In consequence the ways at this country still has' be tolerated', best of all able if sizing's plus, over don't restrain from OE's tire measure.
 
Not even bray rate for cozy to get ride, sizing's plus oversubscribes (two / three's plus onto) also threaten pelg's safety. Consumer Report's examination on two's plus and three's plus ends with pelg's damage and tire.
 
Choosing Pelg
If have known its jeopardy, and regular' emoh' by OE's tire, get in while it to visit tire shop / modifikator. They will offer pelg and tire would be convenient bases OE's tire. As directive, pelg's diameter increase 1 inchi, at fuses by down tire wall thick among 5 – 10 percent and tread broad increases tire 10 millimeters. Ensure too speed rating and load rating is new tire shall overbid from original tire. Need acknowledged, sizing's plus always revamps overal tire diameter. Are hard that same a hair's breadth with OE. It will regard a lot of thing comprises speedometer.
 
Check also pelg which at is as target. Mostly pelg this at makes from aluminium or half and half aluminium and armor. Its problem is its highly varied quality of that all but perfect until as fragible as jar. To check, beginning by asks how pelg that was made. Pelg forges (forged wheel) strongest and most expensive. Pressure cast wheel also enough, besides stronger also lighter from pelg prints (cast wheel). Pelg is this last made by streams metal liquid go to casting.
 
Afterwards checks also its bolt pattern, snugly ngak with whatever available on car. Therefore even forget peleg heart hungering if its hole hole not match. Grocer may will offer kind of adaptor what do can outsmart holes unsuitably it. On the ball, this momentary solution because adaptor this will increase tension on bolts that can oversized while be ridden. Ensure also tire have offset that after finishing car specification. Longok too tire tread that melar what bray tire cave.
 
Choosing Modifikator
Now checks modifikator who will substitute tire. Vote for that experienced deep sizing's plus. Choosing workshop that don't beresiko's competence wreck tire and pelg.
Vote for workshop which proveded with by wheel aligned to prevent earlier timeworn tire. Such too competence adjust suspensi's system that shall adapt by new foots

According to data of the Department of Traffic Safety National Road, the U.S., as many as 660 cases of traffic accidents caused by lack of air pressure in the tires and take a trauma victim of 33 thousand per year. A study sponsored by the Rubber Manufacturers Association (rma) recently, the director of the 1000 people across the state, find the facts that:

* 63% motorist said that tire pressure influence the distance from the vehicle
* Only 19% of the drivers check the condition of their car tire pressure
* Each month, three of the four-rider car wash their vehicles, while only one of the five rider who check their car tire pressure

You can travel the distance to reach 3.3% more fuel and save costs, if you always diligent check tire pressure condition of your car and keep the pressure that should be in.

Below is a 10 tire car care tips:

1. Do not wait until the ban is broken. Biasakan to always check the tire pressure of your car, at least once a month, and especially before traveling long distance. Tire pressure with a lack of adequate causes the tires easily because the heat of friction with the asphalt, so that worn-out tires quickly and can be dangerous driving.

2. You should hapal proportional to the pressure of the tires of your car. Size of tire pressure can be seen in the pas sticker attached on the inside of the door of your vehicle, or on the vehicle owner's manual.

3. For a valid measurement of your car tire pressure, check tires when they are cold temperatures. If your car runs out through travel, wait approximately three hours.

4. Perform periodic inspections, at least once a month and take care that the size of your car tire pressure is always proportional to the limits. So that your car is ready for use, if any time you need.

5. Coin money can be used as a tool that your car tires have been bald. Put the money in the coin of your car tire tread. If you can see the whole picture coin money, it's time for your car to change tires.

6. Keep your car tires from the holes in the road. For holes that are too big not only can damage your car tires, but will also disturb the equilibrium or balance of the car tires.

7. Make a schedule. Make sure you turn in your car tires in front of that with a 6000 on the back of each mile, so that the uniform ban all conditions and to maintain the life ban longer.

8. Do not drive a car with a tire without pentilnya cover. Drive a car without a tire valve cover may cause leakage of air in the tires and can lead to lack of tire pressure.

9. Check the balance or the balance of your car tires periodically, to avoid the ban lap unstable.

10. Must take into account the weight of loaded by your car. If the load exceeds the maximum capacity which can cause excessive pressure on the tires of your car and it can be very dangerous