ACG Tips To Enhance Life of Your Engine

These are tips provided by ACG Team to bring out the best performance out of the engine of your vehicle, by using these tips the performance would be similar to what shown in the graph below.

Periodic Engine Oil Change 

Periodic Engine oil change keeps the Engine Cool and the working components associated healthy. This avoids overheating and reduces the friction between moving components and hence enhances their life. A delay in oil replacement causes residuals deposits in the working components, which increases the rolling resistance and hence the maintenance cost of the vehicle apart from causing major break downs.

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ACG Tips on Enhancing Clutch Life

Clutch is an important mediator which transmits the power developed in the engine to the drive lines. Any malfunction of the clutch related components affects the vehicle performance in terms of pulling and mileage. By implementing the following tips may enhance the overall vehicle performance of the vehicle, apart from low maintenance and enhanced operational profit to the fleet owners.

1. Select proper gear which is required to pull the load. Over selection or under selection of Gears will strain the clutch components very much and reduces its life.

2. Always check for the oil leakage through the oil seals of the gear box side which faces the clutch mechanism (in case of dry clutch). The leakage may cause oil or grease entering the clutch mechanism which results in clutch slippage and loss of power.

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Automatic Transmission Concept For Commercial Vehicles

In order to select the right speed and torque for the right load some times even the manual transmission could not do the task perfect and it is always near perfect. Which results in the power produced could not be utilized for its optimum and it means always some loss of efficiency in terms of power and fuel consumption. Though the loss seems to be negligible one, but for the fleet operators with larger fleet operation there will be considerable savings in the long run.

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Type of Buses and Frame Design

Based on the requirement of the transports, buses can be classified as

1.Urban Buses
2.Intercity Buses
3.Bus Coaches
4.Double Decker Buses and
5.Special vehicles

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Truck Market plummets once again : Analysis FY 2012-13

Poor performance of the manufacturing sector, which constitutes more than 75 per cent of the IIP, grew by meagre 2.2 per cent in February, as against 4.1 per cent in the same month of 2012, official data released by MSO. The mining output in February this year too contracted by 8.1 per cent, compared to a growth in production by 2.3 per cent in the same month of 2012. M&HCV (> GVW 7.51ton) segment has shown 25% of de growth while LCV (up to GVW 7.5ton) segment has shown 16% growth in FY 2012-13 compare to last FY 2011-13.

Source: Autobei

Passenger Vehicle Analysis Fiscal Year 2012-13

Overview automobile Industry:

Overall Indian Automobile Industry has shown 2.61% growth in FY 2012-13 compare to last FY 2011-12. Production and Domestic sales has registered growth of 1.20% and 2.61%, however export is negative growth due to negative global environment and fluctuation.

Most of the automotive players have plan for expending their activities in India including new product launches. Indian automotive industry contribute 5-6% in GDP and more than 15 million man power directly associate with auto industry. However the overall performance is not giving good vibes for Industry. Indian Govt should take some action for stabling fundamental sentiments of economy.

Source: Autobei

Indian Bus Market Analysis FY 2012-13

The overall bus sales including exports has declined by 6.13% as compared against last fiscal. During this fiscal year 2012-13, 105,293 units were sold as against 112,165 units for the previous fiscal. The overall economic slowdown, high interest rates & Diesel price instability are the main reasons contributing to this de-growth in this financial year.

Meanwhile in recent budget, excise duty has been reduced on Basic chassis benefiting local Bus body manufactures. From last couple of years all Bus OEMs have started to push full built vehicle. Some of them have already started to invest in their own bus body manufacturing units. In Union budget for 2013-14, Rs 14,873 crore has been allocated for the JNNURM scheme, with major portion of it for purchase of around 10,000 buses. Urban local body, Corporation, SRTUs are expected to take advantage of the scheme to add new fleet.

The M&HCV segment, overall sales has dropped by around 9% including export. 53,663 units has been sold in FY 2012-13 as against 59,091 units sold last for FY 2011-12.

Source: Autobei

Wheels and Tyres

The functions of wheel in the Automotive vehicle are,

1.To observe the impact forces of the road surface and to bear the vehicle load.
2.Transfers the rotational movement of the axles to Tyres.
3.Absorbs and transfers the braking and Accelerating forces as well as cornering forces.
4.Dissipates the braking heat to the atmosphere and
5.Acts as a seal in case of tubeless tyres.

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Indian Three Wheeler Market Analysis FY 2012-13

Passenger Segment

In Passenger vehicle segment,  Bajaj Auto, has sold 223,287 units in FY 2012-13 taking their sales figures up by 26,146 units compared to last FY. Bajaj Auto is the market leader with 51% market share. Mahindra & Mahindra is at number 3 with 10% market share, M&M need to revive its products offering and marketing strategy.

Source: Autobei

BharatBenz overtakes Mahindra in Q4, FY 2012-13

Within a short span of time following the introduction of its Heavy Truck range into the Indian Market, BharatBenz has now overtaken Mahindra Navistar in HCV segment for the month of March in the last quarter of FY 2012-13. One of the major reason of this mini success is the strong acceptance by customers.

Source: Autobei