It may not seem like it, but simply cleaning out one’s car can help improve the fuel mileage, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office that found that the heavier the vehicle is, the less fuel efficient it will be.<\/p>\n
Used car owners could even luck out like a man from Portland, Oregon did, who cleaned out his glove box and found a lottery ticket worth $2.6 million, according to a KGW report, more than four months after the original drawing.<\/p>\n
While windfalls like that may be rare, reducing the weight of a vehicle by 100 pounds could net fuel economy benefits of around 2 percent according to figures from Shell Canada.<\/p>\n
They recommend taking out anything unnecessary from the backseat or trunk, including winter items such as tire chains or other gear that can weight a car down.<\/p>\n
One man in Germany recently found out how costly it can be to not keep track of what’s on one’s backseat.<\/p>\n
He was test driving a convertible and roughly $4,000 in bills blew away from an open envelope he had left on the backseat, according to a report from The Local.<\/p>\n