Best Gas Mileage Cars Chevrolet Cruze Road Trip
Will Tinney:
Alright, where are we going guys?
St. Ignace!
How much gas do we have?
One tank!
Whoa, St. Ignace on one gas tank!
Whoa, St. Ignace on one tank of gas!
160 miles to St. Ignace.
We are actually averaging 34.6 miles per gallon mpg right now.
We are taking a quick road trip break. We only have got an hour and a half or two hours to go. And we have over three quarters of a tank of gas.
Whoa!
Hey guys, are we almost there?
Well according to my phone we have two hours left.
We're in Mancilona at Mc Donalds… In our Chevy Cruze
We are just approaching three fourths of a tank… And we made it to Petoskey.
Petoskey welcomes you!
We are now exiting Petoskey and we are just, just under three fourths of a tank of gas. So, we are doing excellent with the gas mileage. It says we still have 381 miles left in the gas tank, which is great, I think we'll actually make it back to Grand Rapids, MI safely and not have to worry about gas.
Hey! We made it to St. Ignace and we are on Mackinac Island!
No, Mackinac Island is over there!
No, It's somewhere.
Guys… Over there.
Oh, Mackinac Island is over there! Whoa!
We are in St. Ignace now. We have averaged 37.7 MPG miles per gallon. We still have well over a half a tank of gas. We have 361 more miles we can go, yet we have already traveled 290.8 miles so far.
So we are currently heading back home to Grand Rapids, MI.
It was a lot of fun but I hope we don't run out of gas because I don't want to push the car.
Let me tell you we don't have anything to worry about we still have over a half a tank of gas, high five!
Yeah, my Jeep would never make this trip.
We are about to reach our final destination, Tinney Chevrolet. We still have an eighth of a tank of gas left and we have driven over 520 miles on one tank.
Yea! We are back at Tinney! Whoa! We made it on one tank of gas!
No pushing for me today.
Crushing the Competition - 33 mpg hwy - 2020 Silverado Diesel 3.0L
4WD Magazine:
Perry Mack 4WDrive Magazine
here in Bend Oregon
in the brand-new 2020 Silverado 1500
with the Duramax 3.0 litre engine.
The engine does not sound like a diesel
it sounds like a regular gas engine.
You wouldn't know it was diesel.
I'm sitting in the cab.
And even outside when we revved the engine with the hood up
you can tell it wasn't gas but it's a very quiet diesel.
and this is a completely new truck.
When they designed the 3.0 litre Duramax they started with a blank piece of paper.
Because the actual engine compartment
was designed afterwards for the engine.
As opposed to sometimes when they build a diesel engine,
to go in an existing gas truck,
they have to work within the space that's allowed them in the original truck.
The truck actually handles quite well on the road.
Sometimes you end up with off-road trucks the suspension tends to be kind of soft and floaty on road
Actually this is a truck that will go off-road but it's not designed to specifically go off-road.
There's very little roll when you turn the wheel.
The nose really doesn't dive when you hit the brakes.
If you're used to Chevy trucks
you're gonna find the layout very, very, very familiar.
We've all agreed, it's a 4 out of 4 vote,
that they need to put some kind of a thicker cloth on top of the plywood that we're sitting on.
Because our butts are sore!
The fuel tank they could have added another 30-40 litres, no problem.
There's a giant space
in front of the tank that's just empty space on the truck.
Perfect for the aftermarket.
Yeah I guess
I don't understand why they wouldn't like
if you're getting great mileage it's like yeah drive thousand kms there's no problem without refilling.
If you make that tank
larger, then you have to
include the weight of the fuel.
You have to decrease your payload capacity.
It's got lots of get up and go.
I scared like three pedestrians back there
They're checking their shorts right now
No it does I like the way it drives it is it's
I really do it's peppy its sporty for a diesel.
It's more than you expect.
Yep.
So you're dropping on it pretty good Rich.
But I'm still getting like 23 and a half -
24 miles to the gallon
I think if I babied it
I could probably get
30 miles to the gallon on the lie-o-meter
I put the 4-cylinder
3.9 litre in my Tahoe and I could get about 25
Like real time, real world I
could get 25.
So this is two more cylinders with less displacement getting more
so that's kind of neat
and way more power
Yeah and I think actually they haven't released a fuel efficiency numbers for it yet but I think they're
they're expecting it to be over 30 miles per gallon
and
hoping
expecting and hoping I
they go to different things.
So they had a little drive yesterday with all the journalists
and they get in the contest and
the goal for the journalists was to get
the highest fuel efficiency number
and that got them the number one spot
It sounded like a lot of fun I'm disappointed we missed that.
Yeah
Hidden fuel efficiency numbers is not my forté
and I'm sure like some of those guys probably they might even
they might even turn in numbers of forty miles per gallon on it
I've seen it done with
another brand of truck.
They ran exactly the same kind of competition
and that's what they hit.
Now in order to do that
right
38 miles per hour keeping it
like at 1500 rpm,
pull the side mirrors in to reduce the amount of drag
in the truck
only drive downwind
and yeah you might get it.
But in the real
world it's just not gonna happen.
No.
So this is the 10 speed transmission
it's not the Allison
it's not hunting gear
the biggest thing I've heard with like the Fords in the EcoBoost and that
it's constantly shifting gears and I don't feel that doing that
doing that with this one
Like you said makes for a nice driving truck.
Yeah
So when you did the test yesterday, did they let you tow anything with this one?
oh no and you know as far as an intro of an engine especially diesel I mean the goal
behind buying a diesel
is not for the sound
you're actually buying it because you want that low-end torque right
and then a half-ton truck
that's what this is designed to do .
Recreational towing
I think the tow rating is 9,300 pounds
Okay
We could go to a Uhaul place,
rent one of their trucks and trailers and see what it does
We could
Why because we haven't eaten since this morning we're
starting to get a little hangry
Yeah
Going through some little windy roads
how do you find this?
How is it handling?
Handles great!
A little bit of body roll but it's
a truck it's not a sports car.
So but the steering is tight
It's right there but not tight enough that you're
all over the road constantly
compensating.
I don't think you not having a trailer, or a boat, or an RV should stop you from buying this truck.
I still think this makes it daily, a good
daily, if you're buying a half-ton anyway.
I still think it's worth it with a diesel in it
It's solidly built.
There's no rattles, or buzzes
just a quality construction on the inside .
So this half-ton 3 litre
it's putting out the same numbers as that 3/4 ton
Dodge in front of us.
That's it for the Silverado review
with the new 3.0 litre Diesel, Turbo Diesel engine
with a 10 speed transmission.
But I'm curious now,
it's going to be a little bit pricier,
would you pay the difference to go
upgrade to the diesel over a gas truck?
Is it going to be enough truck to tow
the things that you want to tow?
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Most Fuel-Efficient Trucks of 2018 — Best MPG Trucks
Insider Car News:
Gas prices are tickling the $3-per-gallon
mark across the nation, but if you're in the
market for a pickup truck, we've listed the
nine most fuel efficient trucks for 2018.
No. 9: Toyota is notorious for its fuel-efficient
vehicles, but you couldn't be further from
the truth with the Tundra, which only musters
up just 15 mpg city, 19 mpg highway,
and 16 mpg combined.
No. 8: The Nissan Titan pulls up the next
to last in our list, with the pickup's 5.6-liter
engine that delivers just 15 mpg city, 21
mpg highway, and 18 mpg combined.
No. 7: The 2018 Ram 1500 falls from first
to nearly worst in fuel efficiency without
the 2017 3.0-liter EcoDiesel engine, delivering
just 17 mpg city, 25 mpg highway,
and 20 mpg combined.
No. 6: The Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra
use non-turbo base engines, leaving a bit
of a gap in official EPA testing.
These GM cousins deliver up to 18 mpg city,
24 mpg highway, and 20 mpg combined.
No. 5: The Nissan Frontier has been in the
midsize pickup game for some time now and
is long overdue for an overhaul.
Its base four-cylinder engine delivers up
to 19 mpg city, 23 mpg highway, and 21 mpg
No. 4: The 2018 Toyota Tacoma leaves a lot
to be desired in terms of fuel economy.
The base four-cylinder engine delivers 20
mpg city, but the 3.5-liter V-6 takes the
top spot on the highway at up to 24 mpg and
matches the four-pot's up to 21 mpg combined rating.
No. 3: The Honda Ridgeline rolls in at No.
3 on our list.
While its in-city fuel economy is only 19
mpg, it delivers 26 mpg highway and 22 mpg
combined ratings.
No. 2: The Ford F-150 delivers up to 20 mpg
city, 26 mpg highway, and 22 mpg combined
-- not too bad for a pickup that you can actually
use like, well, a pickup.
No. 1: Is it really a shocker that one of
the smallest pickups on our list is also the
most fuel efficient?
The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon top
our list with a thrifty 22 mpg city, 30 mpg highway,
and 25 mpg combined.
Top 5 Used Trucks with the Best Gas Mileage
iSeeCars Videos:
One feature that's often important to car
shoppers is good gas mileage - and that's
no different for truck shoppers.
This iSeeCars.com list highlights the top
5 used trucks with the best gas mileage.
Each truck on this list gets an average of
26 combined city/highway MPG, is two wheel
drive and priced around $11,000.
The first truck on our list is the 2004 Chevrolet
S-10.
It's followed by the 2011 Ford Ranger
Number three on this list of top used trucks
with the best gas mileage is the 2004 GMC
Sonoma
The 2000 Isuzu Hombre comes in at number 4
And last on our list is the 2009 Mazda B-Series
truck.
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Doing This Will Make Your Car Get Better Gas Mileage
Scotty Kilmer:
rev up your engines, today I'm gonna help
answer a very common question
Scotty all of a sudden my car's getting
worse gas mileage what can be doing that
the first thing to check of course is
the air filter, I don't know how many customers
I have over, their car was running
sluggish getting bad gas mileage, first
thing I did was take the air filter box
out and find out it's all clogged with
dirt, check it every once in a while, I
know people don't look at stuff much
these days but check the air filter,
they get clogged up you're gonna get
horrible gas mileage, and don't fall for
any of those foolish claims that some
companies had that say, Oh our air filter
will get you better gas much it's a
bunch of nonsense, the filter that comes
with the car was designed for the car
and a lot of times if you don't get that
OEM filter but you get a cheaper
aftermarket one, it's worse for the car
because they don't have as much
filtration area in them, and then they
clog up faster so you'll get worst gas
mileage now the next thing about worst
gas mileage is, you want to keep clean
oil and you want the right weight,
whatever your car calls for on the oil
cap use that because of course the
lighter the viscosity, the less friction
the better the gas mileage, I've seen
people put in a heavier weight oil than
the car was designed for, sometimes these
things you'll get 8-10% worst gas
mileage, especially in a modern vehicle
that might use like a 0w 20 oil, that's a
really lightweight oil, it calls for that
use that oil, use the correct oil you
find you had your oil changed and your gas
mileage went down, probably got the
wrong oil in there, now another common
thing that give you bad gas mileage is a
dirty or bad mass airflow sensor, this is
the mass airflow sensor from a GM, if you
look inside you can see there's tiny
little wires those things can get dirty
then they give a false reading, I have a
whole video on how to use mass airflow
sensors to clean cars, it's called make
your car run better with a little spray
cleaner and you might do that every once
in a while to keep the crud from
building up on them, because if these
mass airflow sensors get bad data to the
computer, you can get really bad gas
mileage, anybody who
knows how to use a scan tool you can
plug the scan tool in and and you can read
the mass airflow data, if you're really
into cars hey you can even get a thirty
forty dollar scan tool that'll read mass
flow and you might just want to put it
on your car when it's running normally,
write down the data of what it's like
when it's warmed up and it's idling in
drive and see what the data is, you start
getting worse gas mileage just plug in
your scan tool see what the mass airflow
data is and if it's way off, you can try
cleaning if that doesn't fix it you can
just replace them, they just bolt on and
off they're very easy to change on most
cars, another reason you can get bad gas
mileage especially in a late-model car
you could just have a weak battery,
absolutely everything is run by computer
in modern cars, if the battery doesn't
have enough voltage in it the systems
can go haywire, now it may sound crazy
but I've even had customers, one had a
Mercedes that the engine would crank
fine, but the engine
wouldn't start, and I do have to admit I
spent a reasonable amount of time
checking all kinds of stuff to see why
the vehicle wouldn't start, but I found
out that when I put my battery tester on
the battery showed that it was no good
and it needed replacing, even though it
was cranking the engine pretty fast, now
that would have never happened when I was
a
young mechanic, if the battery went
that was good enough to get a
old carbureted car going but these
modern fuel injected computer run things,
hey it had enough voltage to spin the
engine over but there wasn't enough to
get the fuel injection system, and the
electronic ignition system to fire up,
soon as I put a new battery in start it
up ran like a champ, so as crazy as it
might sound, get your car battery checked
if
you're getting worse gas mileage, and while
you're at it these machines also check
the alternators and the alternator and
the batteries work in conjunction so you
just want a test of both, the whole thing
takes like four minutes with one of
these machines, now the next common
reason I see that cars get worse gas
mileage has nothing to do with the engine
itself, has to do with the transmission
the transmission does exactly what it
says, it transmits the power of the
engine to the wheels to make them spin,
if it's not shifting into all gear
smoothly you're gonna get worst gas
mileage, and if it's slipped you're gonna
get worst gas mileage, the transmission
has a lot to do with your gas mileage
and with modern computerized automatic transmission
a lot of times it's a good idea to pay a
mechanic like me to run a transmission
scan with our fancy scan tools, I've seen
cars like this Mercedes behind me pop up
four or five different transmission
codes when you hook that up, and then I
explain to the customer, that's why your getting
bad gas mileage your
transmission isn't working right, now the
next big reason you can get bad gas
mileage is because the problem in your
braking system, the brakes are supposed
to just do nothing while you're driving
down the road, then when you step on them
they're supposed to squeeze the rotors
or the drums to make all the energy of
the car turn into heat and stop the car,
which is great when they work, but they
get old a lot of times the brakes will stick
on them, all you got to do is jack the car
up
in the air
spin all four wheels, if you see some of
them they drag or you can hardly spin them
at all, your brakes are drag and it would
be like driving with one foot on a
brake and one foot on the gas, now years
ago I had a customer who's getting bad
gas mileage in a BMW, I checked all kinds
of
stuff out and I really couldn't find
anything wrong with the car
so I said, okay let's go for a road trip
you drive, so he's driving his bmw and
I watched him, and he had one foot on the
gas and one foot on the brake, and I said
why do you have you foot on the brake,
he said well they taught us that way, one
foot
on the gas one foot on the brake, so I
made up some flimsy excuse to him and I said
well yeah let me go behind you and I'll
follow you and see if your car looks
weird, well the only thing I was looking
for to see if his brake lights are on
and the whole time he was driving down
the road he had the brake lights on
which means he was driving down the road
with one foot on the brake and one foot
on the gas, and of course he was getting
bad gas mileage there was absolutely
nothing wrong with the car, I couldn't find
anything wrong with that at all
it was cause he had one foot on the
brake and one on the gas, and sticking
brakes will do the same thing of course,
now the last common thing for getting
bad gas mileage is using the wrong fuel
in your car, most modern cars are made to
run on plain ol regular gas and they run
fine, but let's say you've got a car that
needs the super octane gasoline, if you
put in regular gasoline at least in the
modern ones, it'll run okay but it will
get worse gas mileage, it won't be as
efficient, and vice versa as crazy as it might
sound,
if you put high-octane gas on a car
that's made for normal gas, you can
actually get worse gas mileage, the thing
about
high-octane gasoline is, it burns slower
it can take more pressure too before it
explodes, a high compression engine has
to have a fuel that won't ignite too
early, where a low compression engine
doesn't have to worry about that, you put
high-octane gas on a low octane engine,
it's not gonna destroy anything it's not
gonna make it ruin any better either,
but you could actually get worse gas
mileage doing that, hey the engineers
design these things to run as well as
they can on whatever fuel they're
supposed to run on, don't mess with the
way they designed it, they know what
they're talking about when it comes to
that, they have to work their butts off
to try to get these cars get the best
gas mileage they can, and if you go
against the way they designed it that's
a foolhardy move, now I bet somebody's
gonna say, oh Scotty doesn't know what
he's talking about, I got a really old
car it was made for regular gas and I
put high test gasoline on it, and it
actually gets better gas much, yes that
can happen but here's why it can happen,
it can happen because your old engine
hasn't been taken care of and it's
building up with carbon inside, and as
the carbon builds up, carbon takes up
space, so if it takes up space inside the
engine that increases the compression
ratio and makes your engine to be a
higher compression engine now, the more
carbon that's inside there
the less space so when it gets
compressed by the piston, the pressure is
higher, so you're actually driving a
higher compression engine in which case
the higher test gasoline will make it
run better, but if you took such an old
engine apart if you wanted to do a
physics test, clean all the carbon off
made it whistle clean and put it back
together, you'd find that it would get
the same gas mileage that it always did
using regular gas, and if you put high
test in, it wouldn't make it run any
better that's just kind of bizarre
consequence of a carbon up engine, things
are not as cut and dry as people often think
they might be, you gotta understand the
whole picture if you're gonna talk about
an aged engine all the things that can
happen inside them, but for a normal car
modern one you've taken care of, it
says use regular gas, use a regular gas
you'll get the best gas mileage using
that, so now you know reasons that your
car can get worse gas mileage, and what you
can do about it, so if you never want to
miss another one of my new car repair
videos, remember to ring that Bell!
Comparing the 2020 Silverado 2500HD Gas vs Diesel
4WD Magazine:
Perry Mack 4WDrive Magazine
and here I am in Bend Oregon driving the new 2020
Silverado Heavy-Duty
Okay so this is the 3/4 ton HD with the 6.6 gas in there
Correct
and people ask me all the time
what diesel should I buy? and like well what do you tow?
Ah the camper a couple times a year and that's it.
I'm like don't buy a diesel. Buy gas.
As soon as you open the hood you'll understand why.
That is why you buy a gas.
This is 6.6,
400 horsepower,
464 foot-pounds of torque.
But look how cute that is
I could crawl underneath here and you could close the hood.
There is a ton of space compared to the diesel, yeah.
Which means that easier
to work on,
easier to maintain
and cheaper overall cost of ownership.
Now a couple of things
the front end is still baffled the same way in the front
as the Duramax.
But they don't have the cold air intake.
I know I just saw that.
Why like what did you save here?
Yeah why not?
$5 on the factory floor?
Put a cold air intake.
Right it's that simple, it's as simple as just
replacing this
with the cold air thing
and putting an opening and your air filter
and the battery is here.
They could have put the battery there
and then put the air
box here.
You're right they could have, they should have switched around.
Having said that..
here is my - for overlanders -
here's my battery backup.
Here's my battery that's isolated to power all my electronics, lights, fridges
and a battery tree already and plenty of room for it.
You know normally smaller SUV or midsize pickup truck
trying to squeeze that second battery in underneath the hood
tough call.
This intake is a dummy.
It literally goes oh it's closed.
So it's purely cosmetic.
On the 6.6 litre gas.
Behind the wheel first impressions.
I can feel the trailer more.
I can feel it sitting in the passenger seat.
Really?
Yeah.
So it comes back down to
it might be loaded different than the other trailer was
Right so maybe not as much weight on the back axle but I can definitely feel this trailer more.
The truck probably weighs a little less
only because of the diesel I don't think that
would make a huge difference.
All right so do a little acceleration
test.
Why don't we do that. Acceleration test just compare it to what the diesel felt like.
Okay she's right down.
That's to the floor?
That's to the floor.
Yeah
That was
I was
the word that comes to
mind is lame I was looking for something
that was a little bit more politically
correct or polite but..
So it's hard because you get out of
a truck that has a Duramax in it
it's unfair to compare a
gas to a diesel and say this is sluggish
because whatever it's apples and oranges.
So I guess my point is this -
we were talking about you know towing and who should buy the diesel who should buy the gas
I would just like to say that if someone really feels that
they want that on-ramp
acceleration
that they would buy a diesel.
Yeah okay so if you want that
on-ramp acceleration
spend another 10 grand.
I mean what's 10 grand on 100...
Well for 10 grand if you put it in that perspective
then I'm sure that a tune to this thing will wake it up.
You have to understand
that this is, every engine is an emission choked
machine.
Right out of the factory
it is not what it could be
and you can really wake this up if you
want to.
I am glad that we drove the 6.6 litre in the gas
and honestly because I
expected from a brand new engine
that it in an HD truck
that it would have a lot more horsepower, torque. At least be delivered to the road a lot better.
Yeah it does seem a little sluggish and struggling.
Again it's difficult
getting out of the Duramax because
it's got a 10 speed transmission this is
a 6-speed transmission.
All of that playing a factor I want to know what
rear end is in this one.
If the other ones got 4.11 and this is 3.73
it's a big difference.
Yeah.
and that's what gives you that feeling of
get-up-and-go
but this truck as it is
feels pretty
sluggish going up the hills.
Like it's not like it's grabbing the next gear,
it's kind of struggling in 4000 - 4500 rpm
So for a tow vehicle
I know that the
Duramax is more expensive but
to me that would be worth it even if I'm just towing once a month.
That's it Perry Mack from 4WDrive Magazine
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How to Increase Gas Mileage in Your Car
Scotty Kilmer:
rev up your engines, today I'm going to show
you how to get better gas mileage in
your car, now I've been a mechanic for
the last 50 years and believe me, I've
seen every scam known to man that
promises better gas mileage, you don't
want to fall for any of those, for
instance there's one that was called the
tornadoes, this asian company was selling
it
they claimed, you stick this in the air filter
and it would make the air go like a
tornado vortex and get better gas
mileage, total nonsense, the things don't
work, now lately some guys have been
making videos on this HHO scam, where you
get electrolysis and you make the water
turn into hydrogen and your car burns
the hydrogen, but that's a scam too,
because you use more energy and
electricity to break the bonds between
hydrogen and oxygen than you ever get
burning the hydrogen, it's just a silly
thing that people are making multi-level
marketing companies and ripping you off
selling these kits, I've even had guys in
the past, claimed that if you put these
magnets on your fuel line it makes the
molecules line up and they burn better,
of course that's total nonsense
too, years ago a guy gave me one of those
kits, he said Scott you're such a great
mechanic, you got to see this invention
you get better gas mileage,
well I tested it out and I said, it's
nonsense it doesn't work, then he said I
was an idiot and I didn't know what I was talking
about,
he sure changed his opinion on me when I
told him the truth, but there are real
things you can do to get the best gas
mileage, first make sure you got a clean air
filter, realize for every gallon of
gasoline that your car burns, it also
burns about 1100 cubic feet of air, if
you don't have free-flowing air, you're
going to use more fuel with less air, so
just make sure you got a good clean air
filter, then make sure you're using the
right oil for your car, it generally
says right on the top of the engine, in
this case it says use 5w30 energy
conserving oil, and in many newer cars,
it'll say use zero w 10 oil that's a
full synthetic oil that's very light,
because the lighter, the oil the less
friction inside the engine, the better
gas mileage you're going to use, and remember
to change your oil frequently, because
dirty oil, guess what it has more friction,
you're going to get worse gas mileage
because there's more friction with dirty
oil, and if you use a full synthetic oil,
like this dirty old bottle and I found
lying under some leaves in my yard I
forgot about, realize they do flow better
and I've had customers switch from
regular synthetic oil and they will get
slightly better gas mileage, now the next
thing is air pressure in your tires, you
want to have the correct air pressure or
you'll get too much rolling resistance
and get worst gas mileage, and realize if
you're really a fanatic about gas
mileage, there are tire companies out
there that make special tires that have
less rolling resistance, you will
actually get a little bit better gas
mileage, you can check it out it's not
made up, they have tread designs so they
have a little bit less friction and they
get better gas mileage, and since the
more weight you have, the worse your gas
mileage, make sure you got a relatively
empty trunk that doesn't have a bunch of
heavy stuff in it, the more weight you
carry, the worse your gas mileage, so
basically remove all the excess weight
in your car that you don't need, unless
you're going on a trip and you're
carrying a bunch of stuff sure, but for
everyday driving keep your car pretty
empty, and perhaps the best tip is drive
conservatively, my grandfather had a
customer years ago before they were
computers in cars and he said, you tuned
up my car but it's getting horrible gas
mileage, what you do wrong, so my
grandfather the mechanic said, okay let's
go for a ride, so he went for a ride with
the guy, he'd slam on the brakes at the
stop light, step on the gas and tear off
when he was taking off, and my
grandfather said, you're lucky you're
getting the gas mileage you do, the way you
drive like a maniac, conservative driving
patterns are the biggest thing for gas
mileage, that's why when you're on a highway
going 60 miles an hour, you get the best
gas mileage, because the car is conservative
it's going at a lower rpm, it's not shift
and up and down, you're not stepping on
the gas, stepping on the brake, and here's
an odd fact that I found out years ago
if you're driving on the highway you
actually aren't going to get worst gas
mileage turning off your air conditioner to
cool yourself down, because rolling down
your windows actually creates more wind
resistance and you're going to get a little
bit worse gas mileage with the windows rolled down
to cool yourself down, then you are with
the windows rolled up with the
air-conditioning turned on, so now you
know what you can really do to get
better gas mileage in your car, so it will
last as long as it possibly can, and you
spent the least amount possible on fuel
so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to
ring that Bell!
How To Get Better Gas Mileage
Scotty Kilmer:
one, two, three, four!
Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to show you how to get
better gas mileage in your car now
realize for every gallon of gasoline at
your engine burns it also burns thousands
of cubic feet of air, so if your air
filter is dirty
guess what, crappy gas mileage, now don't
get suckered into all these special air
filters will get better gas mileage, normal
filters work just fine,
now the oil-soaked ones will filter a
little bit better but if you live in a
dusty condition they will clog up more and you
have to clean them all the time so the
plain old ones they come with are
perfectly fine now the next thing to
check is your spark plugs you want to
make sure they're not worn out because
if they're worn out you're going to get
worse gas mileage now if you look at
this spark plug it says split fire, years
ago this company sold these plugs with a
little v split on them and they claimed
they got better gas mileage more
horsepower but it was really a bunch of
nonsense because car manufacturers are
under immense pressure to get better gas
mileage and have more power if a spark plug
could do it, believe me, they would put them
in when they build them at the
factory let's don't go for any of those
gimmicks just use the same type that it
originally came. next thing is to have
your cat check your air pressure but of
course cats don't take orders very well
so you're gonna have to do it yourself
and the reason you want to do that is
because tires have rolling resistance
and if you don't have the right pressure in
them you're going to have more rolling
resistance and you're going to get worse
gas mileage you can check the pressure
for your own car but I generally use
about 32 psi in normal cars and the next
thing for better gas mileage is keep
your engine oil clean and use the
recommended oil in this case it's five
weight thirty you'll get better gas
mileage than a heavier oil and many
modern cars uses zero w 10 oil that's
very light oil you're going to get
better gas mileage, the engines were
designed for it they'll work perfectly
fine but you'll get better gas mileage with
a lighter oil and of course drive more
conservatively if you drive at a
leisurely pace you're going to get
better gas mileage don't drive like this
because when I drove that Mustang like
that
I got a whopping 3 miles per gallon gas
mileage but if you don't mind
conservative driving there's a device
that can help you get better gas mileage
it's called wind booster just google it
if you have a modern car with an
electronic throttle you just go to the
throttle pedal and unplug the connector
here it comes right off then you plug
this into the wind booster onto the
accelerator sensor just snaps on and you
get the other end of the wind booster
and plug that into the electrical
connection on the car it just snaps on too
in it goes, then you reset the mode
button it will push on it normal economy
now it's in the economy mode and you'll
get better gas mileage because in the
economy mode the accelerator now has a
lag the computer has a lag so instead of
having really fast acceleration it
accelerates slower and you'll get better
gas mileage granted you will have worse
acceleration but you can have the best
of both worlds with this if you want
because it also has a sport mode, a sport
plus mode, and a race mode for the most
acceleration so you can turn it on or
off as you're driving if you want a
little faster acceleration you can do
that now if you want to get better gas
mileage just put it back to economy now
some modern cars already have this
feature built in the button is just on
the dash for you to do it but if yours
doesn't heck you can buy one of these
kits pretty cheap and just put it on
yourself
the lowest priced one I found by Google in
it was about 92 bucks so hey not a bad
deal though I have to admit most guys
buy these to drive faster but you can
drive them in economy mode and they save
you gas mileage so if you're looking to
get better gas mileage out of your car
now you know what you can do about it
and remember if you've got any car
questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer
channel before it's too late.
Americans Have No Idea How Much Fuel Idling Uses
Engineering Explained:
What is the BEST Fuel to Use in Your Car or Truck and WHY
ChrisFix:
Hey guys ChrisFix here and today i'm gonna show you what fuel you should use in your car and
not only am I gonna show you but I'm also gonna explain why so we could stop all the myths and misinformation out there about
different fuels so no matter what vehicle you drive whether it's a luxury car a truck or SUV a
Compact car a hybrid a sports car a convertible or a muscle car if it uses gasoline
This video applies to you
Now at the gas pump there are a bunch of choices that you can make you could use the less expensive
Regular gas you could use the mid grade or you could use the more expensive premium or super gasoline
So which one do you pick no one wants to put the wrong fuel in their car and damage the engine get poor fuel economy
Or spend extra on fuel. That isn't gonna help them
so in this video
I'm gonna show you exactly what gas your car should use and
Why and I want to thank shell for supporting this video and for letting me tie up one of their pumps so I could film
And teach you guys what fuel is best for your car and once and for all?
Stop all the myths and give you guys the facts. So with that said let's get started
Here's what you're gonna see when you're walking up to a pump in this case
We have diesel here
Which we're not going to talk about in this video if you have a diesel truck or car
Don't put gasoline in it because it won't run
It'll damage the engine and vice versa
If you have a gasoline car don't put diesel in it, so don't make that mistake
But we're not gonna talk about this. What we are going to talk about is the gasoline so in America we have
87 which is regular 89, which is mid grade and 91 or 93
Which is premium or high test fuel these octane numbers tell you one thing and one thing only the resistance the fuel has to
Detonation or engine knock and I want to clear up a myth right away that I hear all the time
And that is the bigger the number the more energy that fuel has so you're gonna get better fuel economy because it has more energy
Or you're gonna get more power because as more energy and that's completely false
so all the different Octane's of gasoline have the same exact energy content 87 89 91 93 all
Have the same energy in them now
There's some myths out there that say certain Octane's burn fuel hotter or colder or faster or slower
And that's just not true these all burn the same temperature at the same speed
There's other myths out there say certain octane fuels burn cleaner or more
completely and that is also not true a more complete burn has less to do with the actual gasoline and more to do with the
fuel to air ratio inside the combustion chamber
So the octane ratings that you see at the pump are exactly that the octane rating of that fuel
87 and 93 have identical energy content
but the octane in 93 is higher than the octane in 87 and that is
Important octane is the resistance to detonation or engine knock and detonation and engine. I could destroy an engine
So in turbocharged engines supercharged engines or high compression engines like in this Corvette
You're more likely to get detonation. If you're using a lower octane fuel with forced induction or high compression. There's more heat
there's more pressure and that means the fuel is more likely to explode before it's supposed to and that detonation that knocked sounds like a
Bunch of marbles or ball bearings bouncing around inside the engine making metallic pinging noises, which is not good
Let me show you why here's the combustion process inside of an engine
Now when you're using the correct octane fuel the spark ignites the fuel and the flame starts at the spark and travels outwards
This is a smooth and even burn that creates pressure to push the piston
Downwards and then the exhaust gasses are forced out of the cylinder and the process repeats
Now, let's take a look at the combustion process when you use a fuel with a lower octane than the manufacturer requires
So the fuel and air mixture is pulled into the combustion chamber and the spark plug ignites
It just like normal
But as the flame moves outwards the pressure inside the cylinder increases and causes pockets of fuel to ignite
unevenly and this creates an explosion rather than a smooth burn and that metallic naki here is the
uneven explosion which could damage the piston piston rings
Valves head gasket and even the block so higher octane fuel prevents detonation in forced induction and higher compression engines
Now today's fuel-injected cars have something called a knock sensor
The knock sensor is like a doctor's stethoscope except for your car's computer
It actually listens for engine knock and when it hears the engine knock it tries to
Change the timing of the engine to prevent knock but you don't want to have engine knock in the first place you want to fill
Up with the proper fuel. So you prevent engine knock altogether
So your decision at the pump is pretty important the higher the octane fuel the we're resistant to engine knock
But that doesn't mean when you pull up to the pump
You should run the highest octane you could get because you might be throwing money away many cars run perfectly fine unregular gasoline
And I'm gonna show you in a little bit how to tell which fuel your car should be using so you don't put premium in
A car that could use regular and vice versa. You don't want to put regular in a car that needs premium
So I'll show you that in a second
but first the next myth I want to bust and that I hear all the time is that fuel from America isn't as good as
Fuel from Europe or Australia or other parts of the world?
And the reason why people think this is because we have 87 octane 89 93
now if you look at a pump in Europe
You see 95 octane and 99 octane since 95 and 99 are bigger numbers than what you can find at American gas pumps
It must mean the fuel here has higher octane
And actually this is misleading because in Europe they use run research octane number as their rating for octane in America
We use pond pump octane number for our rating so fuel from Europe and fuel from America are basically the same
Europe's 95 octane is like our 89 or mid-grade Europe's 99 or 98 octane is like our
93 octane or premium
So hopefully that clears that myth up the fuel here in America is very similar to the fuel in Europe
The octane rating system is different, but the octane is the same or very similar
Alright, so now you know octane is the main difference between the different fuels and how important octane is
But there's one other thing I want to talk about and that is fuel additives. So every brand has to add a fuel additive
It's set by the government to keep your engine clean
Each brand has their own proprietary ingredients and they all do it in their own specific ways
Some of them use the exact same amount of additive in each of their fuels I know
Specifically for Shell they use seven times more additive than required by law in their premium fuel. Now. What does this additive do?
well
It helps clean carbon deposits also known as gunk and sludge
If you don't have these additives in the fuel over time
Your engine will become a lot less efficient so you could get carbon deposits in your fuel injectors
You could get it on your Pistons or on the piston rings, and you could get it on your valves now
I'm not the type of person to just tell you these things
I like to show examples so you could really understand
So I'll show you dirty fuel injectors on the fuel injector tester here
But first let's take a look at the difference between clean and dirty valves here are four four valves from a port injected
four-cylinder motor
This is a completely clean valve to give you a reference of what a clean valve looks like. And here's a good comparison
This is a valve with the normal amount of carbon deposits on it
This right here is what you would find in a normal daily driven port injected vehicle
You can see there's some carbon deposits on the valve where it seats against the head
There's some carbon deposits of right here and there's some carbon deposits on the valve stem but nothing
Significant also if we take a look underneath the valve you can see there's carbon deposits under here as well
and again
This gives you a good idea of what you would normally
Find and here's a good example of a valve that has some carbon deposits on it
This isn't even that bed direct inject engines could be much worse with carbon deposits
Building up on the top of the valve right here
Now the problem with this gunk and sludge is it's gonna lower the efficiency of your vehicle
So fuel isn't gonna atomized with the air as well the air traveling over this valve isn't gonna travel as smoothly into the combustion chamber
The valve might not seat properly
Against the head and not seal properly
So you'll lose fuel economy and you'll lose some power and that's why it's important to make sure your engine stays clean
So you're able to see the difference between clean and dirty valves now?
Let me show you the difference between clean and dirty fuel injectors using this fuel injector tester
so here are four fuel injectors and you could see injector one and four have a good even spray pattern but injector three is a
Little dirty and the spray pattern isn't as strong an injector two is by far the dirtiest and has a very poor spray pattern
Here's the queen injector
number one next to the dirty injector number two
And you can see the difference in spray pattern the clean injector atomizes the fuel and makes a fine
Mist whereas the dirty injector has more of a stream
It's not atomizing the fuel and that will cause poor fuel economy and a decrease in power
Because the fuel isn't gonna burn as evenly like in the rest of the cylinders
So if you have a slight misfire lower fuel economy a decrease in power
There's a potentially of a clogged injector like this
And this is where using a good high-quality
fuel could help clean the injector and restore the proper spray pattern and
I think that's so cool to be able to see the fuel injectors and how they spray now the last thing I want to show
You is the top of a piston now, I don't have any Pistons because they're hard to give an engine
So instead we're gonna go into the engine using a special borescope camera
And I'm going to show you what it looks like in there and how the carbon deposits form on the piston head
So I took the spark plugs out and I'm gonna slide the borescope camera into the spark plug hole so we could see the top
Of the piston and you can see the dark spots on the piston. I'll circle them in red
These are the carbon deposits now a little bit of carbon deposits is normal this right here what you see is completely normal
But if this builds up too much
You could increase the compression of the engine or create hot spots which both of those could cause detonation
So that's how fuel additives help keep the engine clean from valves to injectors to piston heads
But shells v-power Nitro+ does a couple of other things. I just want to mention real quickly because it's pretty impressive
So let's take a look inside of an engine to see what the fuel additive does more specifically
Let's look at what the piston is doing. It's important to prevent wear and tear inside of the engine
So it lasts a long time and that's not easy because inside of an engine there's a lot of fast moving
Parts that are undergoing some pretty tough conditions
The engine oil is the main protector of all these moving parts, but now this new fuel additive actually helps out a little bit
It'll get on the cylinder wall and help protect the upper piston rings against friction and wear so that's some pretty cool technology
And there's one more benefit. I want to mention
So if your car doesn't get used a lot, maybe only take her out on track days
Otherwise she's getting stored or maybe you store your car for the winter and doesn't get started
You want to make sure you protect your fuel system from corrosion like you see on this valve and this fuel additive will actually do
That it'll help protect the metals from corroding so they don't end up looking like this
So now, you know about octane, you know about the fuel additives, but what does this all mean for your car?
What fuel should you use for your car? The answer is very simple no matter what car you drive
Use the manufacturers recommendation on what fuel to use they design the car. They design the engine they design the tune
so if they're saying to use premium
Use premium if they're saying to use regular use regular and there's three different methods you could use to find out what fuel your car
Should use let me show you them the first and easiest method is when you go to fill up just check behind your fuel door
And look for this sticker you can see right there
It says use 91 octane or greater. If you don't have this sticker here check the fuel filler cap
Sometimes it's written on there but not every car
Has it written on the filler cap or on the back of the fuel door?
For example in the drift staying there is nothing written on the back of this fuel door. There's also nothing the fuel cap
So how do you know what fuel you should use in this car?
simple grab your owner's manual
Flip to the back you can see right here. It says fuel choosing the right fuel filling your vehicle with fuel
Let's go to those pages and there you go
I can see right away use 87 octane use regular it also gives you other good information like filling up in a higher elevation
If you hear light knocking or heavy knocking and fuel quality different things like that
So it's worth the read but I know not everybody has an owner's manual
So there's one more place that you could check and that is on the dashboard of your vehicle
So get inside your car and take a look on your dashboard
You want to check over by your fuel gauge? You could see on the gauge. It says premium required
So this is another place you could look now notice that said premium required
there's a big difference in language between the word required and recommended when talking about fuel this car needs premium it is
required
So if you put regular in it, it could damage the engine but some cars say premium recommended for example
If we take a look at my Corvette underneath the fuel door, it says right here premium recommended
So what that does is that allows us to run regular fuel without any issues
So the cars knock sensor will adjust the timing so you don't get that
Detonation and you could run regular with no problem at all
You'll lose a little bit of fuel economy and probably a little bit of power
It might not be noticeable, but it is completely fine and completely safe to run regular
But again, it says premium recommended not required and also it's recommended which means it is better to run premium
But you don't have to now there are a couple situations where your car is supposed to run regular
But you need to run premium. For example, my truck has a hundred and fifty thousand miles on her
I was driving on the highway one day giving it some gas and all of a sudden I was hearing detonation
so I immediately pulled off filled up with premium and that detonation went away when I think what happened was there's carbon buildup inside the
Engine either increasing the compression ratio, or maybe it created a hot spot in a cylinder either way
I was getting detonation with the premium it went away
so in that type of scenario
You definitely don't want detonation run premium and show claims if you run their premium fuel for 2,500 continuous miles
It'll clean 70 percent of the carbon deposits in the injectors
And if you have a port injected engine 70 percent from the valves, which is pretty impressive
So not are you stopping that detonation, but you're cleaning it out now I could run regular fuel without any issues
So the problem went away, which is a good thing another situation
Where my car normally takes regular this is the drifts thing
She could take regular all day long
But you might need to change the premium if you start modifying the car or get it tuned in this case
I haven't got it tuned yet
but when I add the
Supercharger and go to the tuner you have to listen to what your tuner says if your tuner says run 93
Make sure you run 93
Otherwise, you're gonna get detonation and you could damage your engine so stock she runs regular just fine
But once you get a car tuned listen to your tuner and the last scenario I could think of is your car requires premium
But for whatever reason you fill it up with regular, maybe you hit the wrong button by mistake
You hit the 87 and you fill your car up with regular you don't catch it
Or maybe you're at a gas station
And they don't have premium and you're in the middle of nowhere and you need to get gas
Otherwise you won't be able to get to where you need to go. Don't worry
There is a solution after you fill up with the regular gas
what you would do is you would go out and you would buy one of these bottles of
Octane booster and you could get this at your local parts store
sometimes the
supermarket maybe even the gas station you're at and all you do is you empty it into the gas tank and this will boost the
octane of that regular fuel that you put in there so you won't damage your engine and if you have to drive to pick this
Stuff up just take it easy
Don't give the car a lot of gas and go slow and then knock sensors on the engine should adjust the timing so you don't
Damage your engine and there's one more thing. I want to mention in that is
e85 if you see EA t5 like this this doesn't mean 85 octane this means
85% ethanol and you only want to use this if you have a flex fuel vehicle again
You could check your owners manual to see if your vehicle is flex fuel or not
But make sure you do that because if your vehicle isn't flex fuel
You could damage the engine by running
E85 and I just want to mention that really quick so you don't fill up with the wrong fuel by mistake
EA t5 is 85 percent ethanol not 85 octane
but if you have any questions at all about
Anything I showed in this video or anything
I didn't show that you might think of feel free to comment below and I'll answer them but in summary use the fuel your car
manufacturer recommends if they say run regular run regular if they say run mid grade run mid grade if
It says premium required run premium if it says premium recommend you could choose but for my experience
Premium will let the car run better. You'll get a little more power and a little better fuel economy
Plus you won't have to worry about any detonation at all
But it really is that simple just use what the manufacturer recommends. So, there you go
now
You know what fuel you should use in your car and why?
We busted a couple of myths and I told you guys the truth and all the facts
So you have all this knowledge on what fuel you should use
Hopefully the video was helpful if it was remember to give it a thumbs up
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