October 6, 2009 
My truck reminded me this morning that colder evening temperatures means the loss of tire pressure. The cold causes your tires to contract and you’ll lose about 1 pound of air pressure for every 10 degree Fahrenheit drop in temperature. My vehicles have TPMS or Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems on them to warn you when [...]
Read the full article → July 20, 2009On my recent good old fashioned family trip to the Oregon Coast we roadtripped down in our VW SportWagen TDI. I had hundreds of miles to cover and while on the freeway I figured I’d test out some different techniques to see if I could maximize our already excellent gas mileage. We normally get about [...]
