How To Get Better Gas Mileage - YouTube

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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.