BMW and M Power Owners

Tom|Nbk · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:33

Are you listening to what I'm saying at all, mine was slightly hesitating under load. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and give it a go a coil isn't that expensive anyway

rodenal · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:38

There is nothing to suggest its a coil without checking them!! Buying random parts is just daft! You're making a big, bold sweeping assumption because you just so happened to have a coil problem and assuming it will solve someone else's issue.

Buying random parts that might of might not be at fault is a long, slippery slope

Tom|Nbk · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:40

[TW]Fox;25189769 said:
I had a coil go, the car ran on 5 cylinders and triggered the engine light.

If the coil completely gives up then yes eml, if they are running intermittent then no eml, coils fail in different stages

Tom|Nbk · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:41

rodenal said:
There is nothing to suggest its a coil without checking them!! Buying random parts is just daft! You're making a big, bold sweeping assumption because you just so happened to have a coil problem and assuming it will solve someone else's issue.

Buying random parts that might of might not be at fault is a long, slippery slope

How exactly would you check the coils on an m54 then

rodenal · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:46

See numerous posts. I give up here, what's the point.

Tom|Nbk · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:47

What bloody use is it moving the existing coils round if the error isn't being logged by the Ecu, which is the case for Tesla!

Mr Gimp · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:56

How about the Dynavin units etc? They worth a punt or complete cack?

rodenal · 27 Oct 2013 at 18:02

The ECU is irrelevant. Moving the coil will move the mis IF a coil is causing the fault.

Gimp the dynavins are your best bet for OEM(ish) looks, no loss of feet vent control and minimal messing about. The down side is the cost and from what I gather they don't sound significantly better than the stock head unit, whereas pretty much everything else will

mjt · 27 Oct 2013 at 18:51

#Chri5# said:
Do BMW make available old brochures on line? I've found VW let you download previous editions.

I'm looking at some F30s from 2012 and wondered if much had changed since then. This article suggests an upgrade this year, so I'm wondering if Pro MM on an F30 from March / April 2012 would be "missing" much? For instance the Real Time Traffic sounds good.

BMW doesn't have old brochures online AFAIK, but search on some forums and you'll definitely find some.

Spit · 27 Oct 2013 at 19:06

Took my BMW 320d 2013 Efficient Dynamics to London and back from Driffield this week. Reset the trip computer on the drive before I left to test MPG...

In total I did 432 miles at 66.4 MPG which I am really pleased with. Rarely went over 80mph and mostly stayed around 75mph. Had quite a few stops on the M1 due to an accident and traffic. Took the screenshot as I pulled up onto the drive at home.

All done in EcoPro mode.

pepsilol · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:35

That's really impressive, congrats!

mjt · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:35

Not bad!
What are the official figures?

Spit · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:42

Cheers guys. According to BMW its:

Town MPG: 54.3
Out of Town MPG: 80.7
Average: 68.9

Close!

[TW]Fox · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:45

So it's impressive that the car couldn't even acheive the COMBINED figures on a steady Motorway drive?

Looks like more credibility to the theory that the figures are just complete rubbish these days and cannot be at all trusted.

mjt · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:52

[TW]Fox;25193927 said:
So it's impressive that the car couldn't even acheive the COMBINED figures on a steady Motorway drive?

To be fair he said there was traffic and an accident.

[TW]Fox;25193927 said:
Looks like more credibility to the theory that the figures are just complete rubbish these days and cannot be at all trusted.

But yes, this. Total ********.

[TW]Fox · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:56

mjt said:
To be fair he said there was traffic and an accident.

Which would be expected to harm any chances of hitting extra-urban but to not even managed combined on a Motorway trip - traffic is a part of that - is an indictment of how ridiculous these figures have become.

The sad thing is even if the figures were accurate we'd stillt hink they were great - lets face it, 60mpg on the motorway from a 3 Series is incredible.

But the industry has got so good at meeting stupid CO2 targets that the published figures become ever more meaningless.

Spit · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:16

Since the trip on Thursday I have done another 150ish miles of mainly urban driving and its now showing 67.1mpg. I didn't reset it since the trip to London. Will see how it goes.

[TW]Fox · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:13

So it's more economical around town than in it is on the Motorway?

lulwut?

When I had a 320d ED for a day I averaged 37mpg around town :confused:

Scania · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:17

[TW]Fox;25193988 said:
lets face it, 60mpg on the motorway from a 3 Series is incredible.

Indeed.

I was chuffed to bits recently with an indicated (and optimistic no doubt!) 37.2MPG on a late night motorway run down to Taunton in my e46 325i, no traffic, driving steadily....

Impressive - Spits car, not mine!

Edit:

[TW]Fox;25194321 said:
When I had a 320d ED for a day I averaged 37mpg around town

Sums up the progress well! - modern car beats older cars motorway cruise MPG around town!

[TW]Fox · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:22

Well quite - if it wasn't for the stupid advertising and luducious published figures of 56mpg urban (Yes, we know, it's a test in a warehouse blah blah but the implication is quite obviously there isn't it) then I'd have been thinking wow, 37mpg isnt bad. As it was, I thought it was terrible - it was 20mpg under book - whereas my 530i is smack on the urban figure around town.