your mpg figures pls :)

Rilot said:
If it's an E39 with the M52 engine, I had a 540i and never got less than 18mpg
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E39 535i is the M62 V8, just lower displacement to the 4.4 litre version in the 540i. Always found it a rather pointless lump in that it offers Inline Six 530i performance yet 540i running costs. Although that fuel consumption is awful, it should be about the same as a 540i.
 
2004 E60 530D. Getting 29.4 mpg average for the last 400 - 500 miles. As soon as I get it up to anything decent, the next day I have to take a run through the city which kills it right off :( I've learnt to ignore my mpg because it makes me drive too carefully.
 
FTM said:
Well I posted above you


same engine (but my vRS is a slightly larger car..maybe a bit heavier as well) and same figures almost round town..but yours seems way off on the motorway

I just put the cruise on set it to 75 and away I go

like I said on a trip up to aberdeen a couple of weeks ago got 40mpg...on a long motorway trip I would get 430-450 miles from a tank
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Sorry mate, overlooked your post. Guess I had "GTi" on the brain :p

One of my coilpacks went faulty about 6 weeks ago and ever since they replaced it, I haven't been getting great MPG. I took it to VW and they reset the ECU's fuel economy settings back to "basic" and the in-town MPG increased quite nicely. Can't say the same for the motorway although it did increase from 27'ish to 33'ish.

Bugger :(
 
I managed a respectable 27.1 this morning on the way into the office which I was quite pleased with considering I averaged 18 over the weekend :)
 
50ish mpg revving to the redline at every opportunity. But it's a bike not a car :) . Could probably get 70ish if I took it easy all the time and equally could get it lower if I rode around town in 1st gear etc :D .
 
[TW]Fox;10290649 said:
E39 535i is the M62 V8, just lower displacement to the 4.4 litre version in the 540i. Always found it a rather pointless lump in that it offers Inline Six 530i performance yet 540i running costs. Although that fuel consumption is awful, it should be about the same as a 540i.
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Still a lot of work to do to the car. Dr Amedi the previous owner saw to that. Its running all over the shop at the moment, I don't know whats going on with the ECU, so its in the shop on Thursday for diagnostics.

If the opportunity presents itself to purchase a 4.4 with manual gearbox, I may be very tempted, an engine swap is about the only thing I haven't done to it at the moment.

I wonder if changing to fully synthetic would have an effect.
 
Somewhere between 60 and 70 mpg, never put more than £20 in at a time, keep the car empty and the tyres reasonably hard.
£20 is about half a tank and that does at least 200 miles before the light comes on and then I usually refill it at the 260-270 mile mark. I thought I'd push it til it stopped and it did 368 miles (again on £20 from fresh air in the tank to begin with)
Fuel was 98. something it's now gone up to 101. something :(


Not the Impreza no, that does 6 mpg PMSL

This is my little smoker 1.5D pug 106
 
[TW]Fox;10293375 said:
If its anything like the 6 cylinder ones, it shouldnt be run on anything but fully synthetic.
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So the manual says, but BMW themselves have recommended me to use 10w40 semi due to the age of the engine. Apparently, fully synthetic can leak past the older seals.
 
If I drive it like it's meant to be driven well... let's just say that reaching 20mpg is an achievement! Grandpa driving, over 30 - probably touching on 35. that's for a "slightly" modified MX5.
 
Didnt realise how bad it was till i just worked it out!
Toyota Landcruiser 4.2TD

17 mpg round town
11 mpg out on the dirt tracks

Still, fuel is relatively cheap and i have 2 fuel tanks :)
 
I average just about 200miles on 45 odd litres mixed driving and about 260 on a 70-80 mph run when I am visiting my parents.
I guess that works out to.... 17ish mpg up to 23ish mpg
2005 Impreza STi Prodrive
 
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