F30 320d Sport question

[jahk86]

I went to view a 320d sport today, 62 plate.

When we started the engine I noticed, underneath the rev mete it said EfficientDynamics in blue with a blue battery icon and 0 - 12.

I asked the guy about this and he said it was the brake regeneration display, I haven't seen this appear on any of the other 320d Sports I have viewed nor in any images of cars for sale of this spec so i'm a little confused, usually its an mpg meter.

It looked like this: http://www.7-forum.com/news/2011/1er_f20/sport_lin...

I thought this was on the Efficient Dynamics model of car which is only 163ps rather than the normal 184ps.

Is this definately a 320sport, i.e. 184bhp? If so why do most of the others of this age not have the EfficientDynamics display under the rev counter, are all the cars of this spec actually doing the brake regeneration but not displaying it as they do not have the nav pro option?

[rsv gone!]

I am currently running around in a 66 plate 320d M-Sport and it has that gauge.

EDIT - scratch that. It is in mpg then the blue battery, like this;

Edited by rsv gone! on Sunday 18th September 20:54

[rsv gone!]

Does the one you looked at have the red trim the width of the dash? I'm pretty sure that's indication that it is the Sport.

[Fox-]

jahk86 said:

Is this definately a 320sport, i.e. 184bhp? If so why do most of the others of this age not have the EfficientDynamics display under the rev counter, are all the cars of this spec actually doing the brake regeneration but not displaying it as they do not have the nav pro option?

Don't they display that only when in Eco Pro Mode?

[helix402]

If you put the chassis no into an online vin decoder you can get the exact spec.

Edited by helix402 on Tuesday 20th September 07:13

[335d]

The car would normally start in Comfort mode, with the red/orange mpg bar below the speedo. This sounds like it started in Eco Pro mode, which makes me wonder if this was a lower powered - 320 ED model. If it is actually a 320d Sport then perhaps the car has been coded to remember its driving mode - switch it to Sport, turn the car off and on and see if it is still in Sport.

[b19rak]

My 520d Msport has this on all the time, it's just part of the economy meter on them now that shows brake regeneration. Standard feature now I think.

[Fox-]

b19rak said:

My 520d Msport has this on all the time, it's just part of the economy meter on them now that shows brake regeneration. Standard feature now I think.

The F10 doesn't default to it though - it shows the regular mpg gauge with the small blue battery metre at the end. You need to switch to Eco Pro mode each time to get it to display the gauge being discussed here.

[Jobbo]

jahk86 said:

When we started the engine I noticed, underneath the rev mete it said EfficientDynamics in blue with a blue battery icon and 0 - 12.

It looked like this: http://www.7-forum.com/news/2011/1er_f20/sport_lin...

The one in your pic doesn't appear to show 0-12 - was it a blue bar like that?

ETA: even in modes other than EcoPro it still shows the blue battery icon and EfficientDynamics written in blue below. But only on cars with EfficientDynamics; I didn't know any F30s came without it, though.


Further edit: have all the others you've seen had a swinging needle mpg meter rather than the electronic display? That may have been optional as a halfway stage to the full black panel instrument cluster...

Edited by Jobbo on Wednesday 21st September 09:51

[Fox-]

Jobbo said:

The one in your pic doesn't appear to show 0-12 - was it a blue bar like that?

ETA: even in modes other than EcoPro it still shows the blue battery icon and EfficientDynamics written in blue below. But only on cars with EfficientDynamics; I didn't know any F30s came without it, though.

This is the standard look of the standard Partial Black Panel Display on the F10/F30 (They call it 'Full' black panel on the F30 but it's the same as the Partial one on the F10).

All cars with the Partial/Full black planels have an MPG bar which fills up red and a small blue battery bar that fills up blue. They all say 'EfficientDynamics' on them. This is completely standard.

I assumed earlier we were talking about the completely blue gauge that replaces the standard one when you switch to EcoPro mode - I can now see that what is being discussed as simply the standard one.

Jobbo said:

Further edit: have all the others you've seen had a swinging needle mpg meter rather than the electronic display? That may have been optional as a halfway stage to the full black panel instrument cluster...

This is the case for F30's with the basic instrument cluster. A postage stamped sized little screen and old-school swinging needle for MPG.

[Jobbo]

I did wonder initially if there were some F30s which pre-dated the roll-out of EfficienctDynamics across the range - as with pre-2012 F10s. But I don't think they existed. Seems unlikely there's anything suspicious about the car the OP test drove anyway. If it looked like a Sport, it'll almost certainly be a Sport.

[Fox-]

Jobbo said:

I did wonder initially if there were some F30s which pre-dated the roll-out of EfficienctDynamics across the range - as with pre-2012 F10s.

Every F10 has it as well - the pre MY12 ones do not have Eco Pro Mode, but they still have EfficientDynamics (Which itself was introduced first as a concept in 2007) and they still have exactly the same conventional dial mode with 'EfficientDynamics' written under the battery bit.

My first F10 was as old as you can possibly get - a February 2010 - and it had it! It just didn't have Eco Pro Mode.

[Steve_W]

Looks like the car has the full black panel display. Both my 62 and 65 plate had that and you can go into the settings to turn bits off (such as the annoying "lift off the accelerator" image).

If it has the full panel there's no swinging mpg needle

[b19rak]

My 520d Msport has this on all the time, it's just part of the economy meter on them now that shows brake regeneration. Standard feature now I think.

[jahk86]

I've bought the car now, forgot to check back on this, the car has the red trim across the dash and the red leather stitched steering wheel. I'm pretty sure its a 320d Sport.

One other thing though, at night I can see the display covers the middle and right hand display, Does anything ever actually appear in the left hand one under the speedo, or is this just blanked off?

Can add a pic if it helps.