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s43s.1.book Page 178 Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:21 PM 178 Driving and the Environment Reducing idling  Check the ground below your vehicle at regular intervals to detect any leakages in Idling also costs fuel. good time. Please have your vehicle inspected by a specialist garge if you find any stains caused by oil or other fluids on the floor. It is worthwhile switching off the engine in a traffic jam or when waiting at a level crossing or at traffic lights with a lengthy red phase. Even after just 30 - 40 seconds you Avoid driving short distances will have saved more fuel than that is needed when you start the engine up again.Short distances result in an above-average high fuel consumption. If an engine is only idling it takes much longer for it to reach its normal operating temperature. Wear-and-tear and pollutant emissions, though, are particularly high in the warming-up phase. This is why you should drive off right after starting the engine. Do avoid high engine revolutions at this time, however. Regular servicing A poorly tuned engine consumes an unnecessarily high amount of fuel. Having your vehicle serviced regularly at a specialist garge enables you to satisfy one Fig. 155 Fuel consumption in litres/100 of the requirements for economical motoring even before you set off on your journey. km at different temperatures Keeping your vehicle properly serviced not only has a positive effect on the safety of your vehicle and maintaining its value, but also saves on fuel.– Avoid driving a distance of no more than 4 km if the engine is cold. A poorly tuned engine can result in a fuel consumption which is 10% higher than The engine and catalytic converter must first have reached their optimal operating normal. temperature in order to effectively reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. The foreseen maintenance work should be undertaken exactly according to the The cold engine vehicle consumes approx. 15 - 20 litres/100 km of fuel immediately Service schedule by a specialist garage. after starting. Fuel consumption drops to 10 litres/100 km after just 1 kilometre. The Also check the oil level after refueling. Oil consumption is dependent to a consider-engine reaches its operating temperature (outside temperature and engine able extent on the load and speed of the en gine. Oil consumption could be as high as dependent) only after about 4 to 10 kilometres and the fuel consumption then stabi- 0.5 litres/1 000 km depending on your style of driving.lizes. You should therefore avoid driving short distances whenever possible. It is quite normal that a new engine has a higher oil consumption at first, and reaches An important factor in this connection is also the ambient temperature. The its lowest level only after a certain running in time. It is therefore not possible to fig.155 shows the different fuel consumptions for the same distance, on the one correctly assess the oil consumption of a new vehicle until after yo u have driven about hand at +20°C and on the other hand at -10°C. Your vehicle has a higher fuel 5 000 km. consumption in winter than in summer. For the sake of the environment  You can achieve additional improvements in your fuel economy by using high- lubricity oils.

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