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I fill the car with 50 litre's and it last's for about 2 week's and 430-460 miles depending on factor's. Work's out at about 33mpg so I'm happy with that.

 
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Originally posted by cr1272 cr1272 wrote:

I'm curious about this.

My e46 323ci auto gets (on average) 250miles to a tank of Petrol.

Mine's about the same.

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617 miles and the lights just come on.

Sorry.

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Here's a good one. Nissan Patrol. 95 litre tank = €110 to fill from empty.  Don't know how far a tank will get me coz I can't afford to fill it. Even if I could afford it I wouldn't coz it takes so bloody long. Anyway does about 26.5 MPG. Good for an Auto.

530d was doing 34.5 MPG but is in with the dealer being fixed at the moment. It was never running right at all . Expect about 45 MPG when I get it back.

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I was pretty anal about calculating my MPG when I first got the car.

Lowest = 22.6

Highest = 30.84 (Dublin to Galway and back and a bit of rural driving while on holliers in Galway)

When I realised how much more petrol I was using than in my 45mpg Seat Leon I got too depressed and stopped keeping tabs. Still in the habit of resetting the trip counter at every fill though. I tend to fill up within about 10 - 20 miles of the light coming on and generally get 300 to 320 miles to a fill doing a mix of short motorway trips to work and a bit of town driving.

I thought it was bad. Now I'm just glad there's no M in my model number! The way prices are going I may have to forego my beloved auto box and get a 320d.
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Lots of country and town driving and look

425 miles. Not bad. I normally only get 270ish.

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well on track day i got only 90.6 miles to a full 60l tank..on board computer read 9.5 mpg...but normaly runs at 21-24 mpg depending on my humor
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Today at the VIP trackday I arrived with a full tank of fuel. Halfway through the afternnon session I was out of petrol! 

7.1MPG was what I was getting after the second refuel.
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Originally posted by Kin Mak Kin Mak wrote:

Today at the VIP trackday I arrived with a full tank of fuel. Halfway through the afternnon session I was out of petrol! 

7.1MPG was what I was getting after the second refuel.

Driving your car,,,, It has to be worth every cent..

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well kin like mick said,,, it has to be worth it... any spins today?
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Nope, not at all. New tyres are working well. If you are looking for information about spins ask ///M3Mick, sorry Mick...
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so is ///M3Mick the new spin master...any pics mick?
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I find since i started sticking to the speed limits (being pulled 3 times since i got my beemer ) i've been getting better economy (only having to fill once every two weeks instead of once a week). It certainly makes a difference, oh yeah and not letting my brother drive my car helps too hehe!!
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as i said earlier i only put in 30L at a time so last week i did a wee experiment.  30L in on monday 175 miles mostly town driving, thursday another 30L this time mostly country driving (it included a long run from ennis to athlone and back to galway), 245 miles with an avg. mpg of 33.4.  put another 30L in today and did a journey of 37 miles (home to ennis) got 38.1 mpg.  happy enough with that so i am.

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Hey Digweed,

I think you have way too much time on your hands hehe!! Must try that sometime. Doesn't look like i'll get to try it out on the economy run on Sunday. My track record with the club is not looking too well at the moment :-(
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Originally posted by richard31 richard31 wrote:

Hey Digweed,

I think you have way too much time on your hands hehe!!



that i do, that i do....
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2001 E39 520i (2.2l) Auto, - still didn't change it evn after all the looking.
Averages around 360 per fill around city, long runs 450+ or so.  Herself drives it 95% of the time but I get 3/4 mpg more on the OBC than she does, so I'd say driving style has a big impact.

The 96 M3 Evo, on M50 rush hour was doing around 28mpg if I remember right, its embarassing oilburner replacement on the same run is doing 55mpg, its not a BM so I'll hang my head in shame.
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Originally posted by Kin Mak Kin Mak wrote:

Nope, not at all. New tyres are working well. If you are looking for information about spins ask ///M3Mick, sorry Mick...


Lol you held off for as long as you could didnt you

Hehe yes I had 2 spins at the vip day, both at turn 20 on the back of the international.  Although at least I have an excuse, on the first one, my wife called me half way through a lap complaining her new PIN wasn't working for her atm card , bloody bluetooth lol.  I got a bit distracted during the conversation and tried to change down from 3rd to 2nd in the middle of a 90 degree right hander that I was carrying too much speed into anyway

Second time was at the end of the day and I had complete brake failure coming up to the same turn and kind of panicked .  I knew the brakes wouldnt last the day (AL had told me I would be lucky to get a day out of the pads) and the warning light came on during the last session (I'm not sure if it was the pads or just general brake fade though). 

Incidentally, Kin, I have just been watching teh vid of your second spin at mondello, and by god its a doozy.  It will take some matching for sheer heart stopping wall proximity and general all-over-the-trackness coverage with windscreen wipers to boot



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