See how economical your car is with our free fuel consumption and car tax calculators.
We have some of the most widely used fuel calculators on the internet in these pages and we are keep to keep improving them so keep the feedback coming in.
Our popular MPG Calculator – just enter Mileage and Fuel used since last fill-up: and try the calculator again after using our fuel saving tips (I bet you get another 50 miles out of a tank!).
Use your trip counter and reset when you fill up ensuring that the tank is full then when empty fill up to full again noting the mileage covered.
Read more....Miles per gallon calculator using kilometers covered. "MPG calculated from KM" Press ctrl + D to book mark this MPG Calculator […]
Read more....L/100km Calculator. Simply enter Mileage and Fuel used since last fill-up to get your fuel consumption in L/100km – the new European standard measure of a cars economy:Use your trip counter and reset when you fill up ensuring that the tank is full then when empty fill up to full again noting the mileage covered.
Read more....Now you can see what your annual fuel cost is based on your annual mileage, your MPG and the cost of fuel per litre.
Calculate your annual fuel cost from MPG and compare 2 cars side by side. It is handy if you are buying a newer car and want to see how the annual fuel costs compare.
We don’t take into account the price of inflation on the fuel price so we recommend that you add a bit to the fuel cost so it averages out. For example if the fuel cost is 140pence putting 146 pence should cover you for the hikes during the rest of the year.
Lets look at the job of the coil in the spark system and see what it does.
Just as a power transformer converts mains 240 volts into a usable 9 volts for your charger or appliance a coil will increase the voltage.
A car battery/alternator will produce a paltry 12volts, certainly not enough to jump an air gap and create a spark.
An ignition coil raises the voltage in some installations between 20 and up to 40,000 volts and this allows the creation of a spark which can jump the air gap between the plugs.
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When putting more power through an engine you need to ensure that every part will perform at its optimum.
One of the motorsports favourite techniques to improve the durability of an engine is a process know as cryogenic treatments.
As you can guess from the use of the word Cryo – it involves the cooling and heating of the engine block to temper the metal changing its structure.
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DIY ecu mapping with ByteFlash
“Using the ByteFlash handheld ECU remapping device”
This is a review of the handheld ecu flashing device from ByteFlash.
It is a plugin tuning unit that flashes the ECU with a new map
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