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Good fuel saving practices for car owners

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Most car owners do not exercise fuel saving practices as expected of them. Proven fuel saving tips can help you run your car on lesser fuel. Saving fuel means making a good saving on your hard earned money besides helping the earth stay green. In this regard, I can share with you a few good practices that you might implement to save fuel while you drive your car.

Minimize the use of clutch while driving the car. Use clutch while standing still or while changing gears alone. Most people do not have the habit of switching off the engines while waiting at signals. Experts state that on an average, the amount of fuel consumed by cars while starting the engine is not more than that spent on three seconds of idling. Therefore, keeping the engines on for longer times is a mere waste.

Always drive in the gear appropriate to the car’s speed. This means not raising while your car is on lower gears and not crawling while it is on higher gears. Ensure proper servicing of your cars at regular intervals to set right any glitches from time to time so that fuel consumption is minimized. Also, engines are found to consume up to 50% more fuels under poorly maintained and poorly tuned conditions. Driving your car at 90kmph than 100kmph will bring down fuel consumption by 10%.

Fuel consumption is inversely proportionate to the tire pressure. Properly inflated tires will mean that your car is running on lesser fuel. More weight means more fuel. If the carrier is not in use, detach it and save fuel. Be cautious and avoid abrupt stops and sudden brakes to save fuel. Make proper use of your steering wheel. Every unnecessary turn of your steering will increase the distance you travel meaning wastage of fuel. Though this wastage will appear insignificant, on a longer run, you will find an enormous saving.

Increase your braking distance by making use of the rolling resistance to stop your car rather than relying more on brakes. Accelerate your car slowly on slippery or gravel roads. These practices will again save more fuel. Regular change of spark plugs will enhance engine efficiency. In this way, some proven fuel saving practices will help you run your car on lesser fuel thereby making a good saving of your hard earned money.
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Vivek is a mechanical engineer and has more than 7 years of experience as a writer. He blogs about various topics; entrepreneurship being one. His interests range from poetry, music to photography and travel. He can be reached at sdkrdk@gmail.com

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Tips to save fuel to make your car go extra mile

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Saving your car fuel will help you go extra miles shelling out the same amount of money from your pocket. Saving fuel has two benefits: Saving the planet besides saving your hard earned money. If you are thus going to bring down the number of times you ply to the petrol pump with your car, it is again going to save your miles for another useful trip.

There are a few ways in which you can help your car generate millions for you over a period of time by adhering to effective fuel saving practices. Some of them are listed below.

Imagine that you have defective bearings so that you will limit your speed on the highways leading to fuel efficiency. Above 60 kmph, most of the car’s fuel is wasted on assisting the vehicle resist the air particles bombarding on it. It is not funny though it might look. Unbelievably, driving behind a huge truck will help you save fuel since the vehicle running in front of you has done the job of resisting the air. However, don’t stay too close since your desire to resist the air free of cost should not end up letting your car bombard with the truck. At any speed, you should ensure that you are at least two seconds below the truck in front of you.

There is another trick that will regulate your speed to an optimum level. Driving too fast or too slow will cost more fuel. Therefore, imagine that your exhaust has a hole and your car sounds horrible so that you don’t drive fast to get caught due to over noise or get caught by being slow since the traffic personnel will be able to catch you quickly.

Launching the cars with a spurting speed at the start might sound good for racers, but not for you if you are conscious of saving fuel. Raising the car speed gradually has proven to save fuel. Over and above, racing out with great speeds on the city roads is not only unsafe; rather, it will also necessitate applying sudden brakes at times burning up more fuel.

Saving fuel is not something that every car owner practices on daily drives. However, the benefits of this for yourself, your car and the planet at a larger extent cannot be underestimated.

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About the author:

Vivek is a mechanical engineer and has more than 7 years of experience as a writer. He blogs about various topics; entrepreneurship being one. His interests range from poetry, music to photography and travel. He can be reached at sdkrdk@gmail.com

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Bottleneck in the Indian automotive aftermarket growth

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

The Indian automotive aftermarket is expected to grow to around $9.4 billion by 2015 from its present estimated size of $3.7 billion.

Car technology is changing rapidly and to keep pace with latest systems, there is a need for a specialist service provider. Large groups are investing into machinery and equipment along with training manpower. Building own workshops to cater demands is not feasible even large group invested heavily building infrastructure. Majority of people are still visit to road side workshops for car servicing.

Bottleneck in the Indian automotive aftermarket

- Untrained Manpower

The automotive aftermarket industry is one of the largest employers of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workforce in the country, and there is a shortage of skilled workforce. Survival of small workshop is difficult when they do not have trained mechanics. There are groups like Bosch Car Service, are building network of car workshops and helping small workshops by standardizing and providing training.

- Scarcity of Spare Parts

Car manufacturer supplies spare parts to OEM dealers only. Car owners look for spare parts from small garages with same quality. Alternates and unbranded spare parts are available in the market. Car owners are happy getting cheapest spares from the outside market. Few garages claims they source from OEM dealers or same companies suuplies to OEM. Audit spare parts companies to stop supplies in the open market is not easy for OEM when they supplies same parts with different local brands. There is a need to increase supplies of spare parts.

Indian auto industry is investing heavily in developing facilities for design and manufacturing of auto spares parts. This investment will attract global auto giants to start outsourcing quality spares at competitive price from India. It is estimated that in next 5/6 years the spares parts industry for automobile will be a $14 billion investment.

- Monopoly of OEM dealers for warranty car service

Globally all OEM dealers are allowed to provide car servicing during warranty period. No other car workshop and service centre can provide that service. It has stopped car manufacturer sharing technical information about car technologies to others. In USA and European countries, garages and small car workshops has filed petition for “The Right to Repair”. Some of the states has approved it and community is still working on this to get it approved globally.

The need for Right to Repair legislation has become a necessity in order to protect the rights of car owners to decide where and how they have their vehicles serviced, whether at a new car dealer or an independent service facility. Right to Repair ensures that the person who bought the car and not the car company, can decide where that vehicle is repaired and maintained.

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Auto Aftermarket Repair Business Grows in a Good Recession in USA

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

(Reuters) As per analysis, 250 million vehicles on America’s roads, and an average age of nearly 10 years, times are good for the auto aftermarket repair chains. For the moment, customers seem willing to have their cars fixed, the nation’s fleet is getting older, cars are more complex and credit is available.

New car sales are in a ditch, though improving slowly, and there is stubbornly high unemployment. Shuttered car dealerships are pushing more business to repair stores.

Last year, just 10.4 million new cars were sold in the United States, the lowest in 27 years. For 2010, automotive forecaster J.D. Power and Associates expects 11.5 million cars and light trucks to be sold in the United States.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B548W20101206

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Market demand for parts and services set to double over the next 5 years (Auto Serve 2010 Report)

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

CII Report prepared by McKinsey & Company titled: “Opportunities in the Indian Automotive Aftermarket”, released at the CII Auto Serve 2010. The report observes that the Indian automotive aftermarket, which is growing at 11 per cent per annum, is at an inflection point with: the increase in vehicle parts, more complex parts, price sensitive customers, and expansion of global suppliers in terms of sourcing and distribution presence in India. The CII Report said that the market demand for parts and services set to double over the next 5 years.

According to the Report, roughly, 30 per cent of the market comprises spurious parts. Market interviews and analysis indicate that owners of older vehicles often migrate to independent service networks for cheaper and faster service. With OEMs more focussed on vehicles in their warranty period, offering higher levels of service for older cars will be necessary for independent players to attract customers. OEMs and distributors should develop branded generics to capture the cost advantage in this rapidly growing independent market: The Indian market for branded generics is already worth Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore and is set to grow significantly in the next 5 years. Analysis shows that generic brands tend to have much higher margins and are extremely popular among consumers looking for fully functional, yet cheaper alternatives to OE spares, especially in the non-critical product ranges.

OES’s, independent players and distributors should consider partnerships and options for forward integration: Since many key skills and capabilities required for success overlap along the value chain, forward integration offers players the potential to create additional value. While global trends and the complex nature of the Indian market indicate independent distributors are going to remain valuable components of the value chain,

Source: http://www.orissadiary.com/Shownews.asp?id=22484

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