Busting The Most Popular Car Myths

Why Do Car Myths Need To Be Addressed?

Several car myths need to be discarded, as better, new-age technologies have made them baseless. In many cases, car owners still believe these car myths and are away from the knowledge about the new trends and changes in technologies in the automotive industry.

Common Car Myths:

For ages, there have been some misconceptions about cars – while some have always been false, some have been rectified with time and no longer hold. Following are those misconceptions:

• Manual cars offer better fuel economy than automatic cars – Modern automatics like CVT, AMT and DCT are now offering equal or more fuel efficiency than the same car equipped with a manual gearbox.
• You get more fuel while refilling during morning hours – Nowadays, all the petrol pumps have modern machines which come in-built with a temperature compensation device, which controls the density of the fuel and keeps it the same throughout the day. Thus you will get an equal amount of fuel for your car, irrespective of the hour in the day.
• You should warm up your car before driving – In the current times, all cars feature fuel injection technology as default for their engines. This technology eliminates the time required for adjusting air and fuel mixture based on engine temperature. So, there is no need to warm up your car before driving.
• Nitrogen is better for your tyres' performance – Apart from its slower dissipation from tyres with time, there is no other advantage of filling your car tyres with nitrogen over regular air.
• If one tyre wears out, replace all tyres at once – Not necessarily true. You can replace only the worn-out tyre instead of replacing even the lesser worn-out tyre along with it. However, the new tyre should be of the same size and model as the tyre you intend to replace if you want to keep other tyres unchanged.
• Premium fuels enhance the performance of your car – The premium fuels with higher octane numbers have better combustibility as compared to those with lower octane numbers. They do not boost the performance of your engine, which is thought by some. So, if your car's engine doesn't require a higher octane fuel, the additional price commanded by the premium fuel is not worth paying.