Three Improvements that Will Make Your Car More Environmentally Friendly

Your car is a big part of your carbon footprint. Every time you drive it, your car exhausts greenhouse gases and pollution into the atmosphere. 

You can change that. You don’t have to wait until you can buy a more fuel-efficient or hybrid car to make your driving more environmentally friendly. Here are three improvements you can make to the car you have right now.

Inspect and Adjust Your Tires

Under-inflated tires won’t just wear out sooner. They’ll also cause you to use more fuel. Check your tires frequently. Keep them inflated at the recommended pressure posted on the tire. Unevenly worn tires indicate a mechanical problem with your car. Have the problem fixed. That will help restore your car’s maximum fuel efficiency. 

You can also replace your tires with new tires designed for lower rolling resistance. Over time, you save gas and money. When you buy new tires, your tire dealer will recycle the old ones. There are lots of uses for old tires, from playgrounds to mulch. If you have extra old tires laying around, turn them in. Recycled tires get reused.

Ditch the Extra Weight

We’re not talking about passengers here. We’re talking about the common tendency to use a car for storage. Open the back of your car. All the sports equipment, boxes of books and papers, bags of unsorted clothes and other items you haven’t gotten around to unloading is extra weight. It’s causing you to burn extra fuel all the time. 

Unload the extra weight. You’ll be helping the environment. You’ll feel lighter yourself, without a doubt.

Get Your Car Tuned Up Regularly

A car that runs well burns fuel efficiently. This efficiency minimizes the carbon emissions. Take the car in to a reliable service facility, such as Speedy Brake and Apollo Muffler which does shock installation in Calgary. The service personnel will look your car over for you. Besides tuning the engine, replacing air filters and changing the oil, they can suggest other systems that might need work or parts that might need replacing.

While you’re at it, you can tune up your driving. Keep your highway speed at 55 miles per hour. At higher speeds, your car loses fuel economy. Don’t brake hard, and don’t accelerate quickly. These cause wear on the car and excessive gasoline use.

The most fuel efficiency you can get out of your car is to leave it in the garage once in a while and bicycle to work. Save the driving for another day.