[minardifans]

Hi, My name is Rob, and I am new to all this ecomodding stuff, but I am keen to learn.

I am from Wales in the UK and currently own a Citroen Picasso 2.0 HDI.

After gradual increases in fuel prices I have taken steps to increase the fuel economy of my car. The Picasso is my No2 car (my wife drives a newer one) and mine is used simply to take my son to school and myself to work, so my first step towards saving fuel was to remove all the rear 3 seats out of the car along with any tools and other junk out of the boot. I have stored the seats in the loft for future use. Believe me these seats are heavy, I reckon all three together come to about 90Kgs. Plus all the stuff in the boot so I reckon about 100kgs.

My workplace is about 15 miles from where I live and after removing all that weight my MPG improved from 38.9mpg tp 44.1mpg (UK)

So this has now become an obsession. I have made a couple of little splitters that throw the air away from the front tyres, put all new tyres on a pumped them up to the handbook max and folded the passenger side mirror away and my MPG was now 49.6MPG.

My next steps are to fill in the grill (the upper grill on the Picasso is cosmetic only) and to fit smooth wheel trims and windscreen wipers... see how it goes.

Any other tips and hints towards saving fuel would be appreciated. I am about to read the section about Hypermilling? see if that helps too. Great site, I'm finding it ever so interesting.