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Originally Posted by AndrzejM
I was off for few days so I couldn't check how it's with my Polo. I'll do that and post the results soon.
Removing alternator is a good thing for FE, but I'm driving my cars mostly on a long distances - for shorter trips I'm using my bicycle. So that's not for me.
But first your car has to be in a sound condition. That thing what you wrote about your rear wheel can give you an extra 1+l/100km or even more. You should check that. Definitely.
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My Polo was serviced last week (synthetic oil + filter change, brake fluid change, timing/cam belt changed) so things are running a bit smoother.
I still don't understand how you (and other ecomodders here) manage to get such amazing fuel economy. I drove 3.5km (half downhill) with a warm engine and my consumption was 7.7l per 100km. That was with me coasting in-gear and out of gear where I could, depending on how I needed to control my speed.
Do you think EOC would help? Or am I losing efficiency somewhere else?
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Originally Posted by renault_megane_dci
The least good practice is to dismantle the caliper, clean it up (no reason to open the brake circuit) and make sure the caliper slides easily (assuming it is a single piston setup as is often the case, it has a sliding counterpart)
For drums it's a little trickier.
They do get clogged up so can be cleaned but they also usually have a freeplay suppression setup that does the exact opposite of what you do want (as a non braking ecomodder enthusiast) and I wouldn't tell you they're easy to remove ...
Thing you can do also is clean up the side of the disks with a file because they usually rust where a step is formed from the braking.
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Awesome, thanks for the tips. I had my brakes checked and cleaned during last week's service so hopefully the drag has been reduced. I'll jack up the car later today and see how freely they spin.