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We all know about the rise in fuel costs. When the price of fuel changes, it alwys goes up, never down. I feel we can reduce fuel costs by at least 10{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} by a few simple changes. Firstly, try to plan your days work so as to eliminate wasted mileage. If you are stuck at arailway crossing, stop your engine, a hot diesel starts easily. keep your tyre pressures correct. Check your vehicle regularly to ensure you dont accumulate heavy junk. Make sure your collection of spares carried is adequate. When choosing a vehicle, make high fuel efficiency a priority. Choose a van that is adequate without being too big. Remember that high speeds cost high fuel bills, high maintenance costs, and maybe your license [or worse]. Do yourself a favour and keep to speed limits. The time gained by speeding is insignificant. Lastly, if you run a fleet, monitor MPG and offer an incentive to the most fuel efficient driver of the month.
Re: Rising fuel costs
Just as an example of the costing’s neptune, a 1p increase in diesel costs us well over £30,000 a month, thats just on our home delivery service, and without taking into account all the engineers, and managers with company cars.
To put it mildly, I am glad I am under the company fuel scheme, and not as I was 5 yrs ago under my own business, still doing roughly 400 miles a week, nowadays that would equate to £300+ a month in fuel, truly scary!
Has anyone seen that fuel converter that you can stick onto your fuel pipe, its only for diesel, but it can add another 120 miles to the fill up, must be worth a look?
Re: Rising fuel costs
CometBez wrote:
Has anyone seen that fuel converter that you can stick onto your fuel pipe, its only for diesel, but it can add another 120 miles to the fill up, must be worth a look?Hi Bez
What`s that then? Google doesn`t show up any results that match your description :rolls:
Don
Ex 061 and 544 😉
Re: Rising fuel costs
Don,
Google diesel tuning box uk and look on there. Only works on commom rail diesel in most in most cases so thats mine out of it. Some start at £150.
Or look at itv.com/tonight
RobOther issues may also start to show up. With the price of fuel still rising (Oil touching $145.50 as I type) the ‘value’ of the fuel which we carry around in our tanks becomes more significant. From empty my van costs well over £75 to fill up. When I bought it 5 years ago it was under £40. Back then I charged £38 + parts for a repair and in my mind I always knew that one successful repair could pretty much fill the van up. Since then I’ve put my charge up to £48 + parts but, as you can see, this is no where near enough to fill it from empty. On top of that there is now an increase in fuel related thefts (drive-a-ways) from garages. Sooner or later thieves will target vehicles like ours since they know that the average business user is likely to keep their tank significantly fully than your average family car. The cap on my vehicle is a flimsy plastic affair which in all fairness might not even need a tool of any kind to break it! I fear that fuel theft could increase pure because of its rising value.
Steve.
Re: Rising fuel costs
Regarding tuning boxes for Diesels, ive fitted these to my last 3 cars. None of them made any difference to economy, so dont waste your money if thats what youre after.
They all improved torque from around 1800rpm upwards & made the engine keener to rev, but if you use the increased performance regularly the MPG would fall slightly, but only by a couple of {e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}.
With modern common rail injection, the way a lot of these boxes work is by ‘fooling’ the cars ECU into upping the fuel pressure in the fuel rail so more fuel is injected even though the injector doesnt remain open any longer. This then shows up as a slight MPG improvement on your trip computer, cos its working on injector opening time, which remains the same, hence the many excited testimonials you read about better performance AND economy. Bollox. :rolls:
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