B9 - Sunday, May 1, 1983 - North Shore News

Operation tune-up a success

About a dozen Victoria

media personalities
averaged 16 per cent better
gas mileage in their cars
after taking part in
OPERATION TUNE-UP - a
program showing how
regular car maintenance and
energy conscious driving can
boost mileage and cut gas
bills.

One driver achieved an
astounding 69 per cent
improvement in his car’s
mileage over the three-week
demonstration period, while
three others all managed to
show improvements of more
than 35 per cent.

The others showed
dramatic changes.

OPERATION TUNE. UP -

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Victoria, was initiated at a
meenng of the City) of
Victorna’s Energy Con
servation Committee, and
was funded by the Britush
Columbia Ministry of
Energy. Mines and
Petroleum Resources, with
the help of the British

Automobile
McCallum
and the
Service

Columbia
Association
Motors
Faarfixedd
Stavona
OPERATION TUNE UP
clearly demonstrates — the
energy and dollar savings
which can be achieved by an
driver, through
vehicle maintcenan ¢
the development of
enertpy cifheient
habits Similar

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average
proper
and
driving
programs
have previously been carned

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The program consisted of
three phases: In the first
week, the drivers were asked
to keep records of their
mileage, a percentage
breakdown of city versus
highway mileage, amounts
of fuel used, and weather
conditions. Each driver was
given aie =kit containing
mileage record sheets plus a
tuumetable and other general
information on the project,
and was asked to drive for
the next seven days as he
normally did.

In the second week,
records were not kept.
Instead, the cars were all

thoroughly diagnased by
BC.A.A. mechamc Neil
O'Connor, before being

tuned up at the McCallum
Motors Service Centre at
Cook and View Streets.

Now that the cars were
“tuned up”. the drivers had
to be “tuned in” to con

servation dnmving habits
Dave Steventon, manager of
the BC.A A‘’s) Vehicle
Inspecton Service Centre in
Vancouver, gave the par
lieipants a latk on ways they
could improve their car's
mileage. and a film) called
“Ruaning on Empty”
shown All parboipants were
also given

was

copies of “Fuel
and You". a
pubhc ation which
many fucl saving
including keeping your
tres well inflated

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the traffic ahead to avoid
stop and start driving,
keeping car warm-ups to a
minimum (30 seconds), and
in general easing up on the
accelerator.

Finally, during Phase II],
the drivers were again asked
to keep detailed mileage
records as in Phase I. This
tame, however, they used
their newly-found driving
techniques and were driving
tuned-up cars.

The results, as noted,
showed dramatic im-
provements in more than a
third of the fleet, while the
others registered = either
shght gas or losses in their
cars’ performances.

Even when the $100 |
cost of a tune-up 1s) sub
tracted, it ts clear that sub-
stantial cash savings can be
acmeved by dnvers who
ensure that their cars are
properly in tune, and who
can dnve with an cye to
ecomomy

Equally important are the
savings to) Bnush Colum
bans, who now consume
more than a milbon barrels
of oil a week, most of it
imported from Afberta

The transportation sector
is responsible for more than
one half of our total oi) con

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sumption, and the private
automobile burns up about
half of | chts 1S million
barrels a year Costing acarly
400 milhon dollars Even a
small improvement to our
automobile fleets

per

THIS MINT CONDITION 1963 Chrysler 300 converti-
ble draws plenty of stares when Hugh and Helen Peter-
son go for a ride. The car has the original engine and
even the clock works. They just don’t make them like
this any more.

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