535d owners - question for you.

[dxb335d]

Welshbeef said:

dxb335d said:

Mine on flat level road at 70mph and 1/4 throttle is well over 45mpg. on the needle.

272 or 286?
Thnx

Its the 286engine.

[jollygreen]

Anyone know what chipping these things does to fuel economy?

[dxb335d]

jollygreen said:

Anyone know what chipping these things does to fuel economy?

Not much. Mine has always been pretty bad.

[Welshbeef]

dxb335d said:

jollygreen said:

Anyone know what chipping these things does to fuel economy?

Not much. Mine has always been pretty bad.

Well given what you stated 45mpg + & 70mph your clearly driving it very hard a lot of the time as if you wanted & restrained a little you could get exceptional MPG for the petformance.

[dxb335d]

Welshbeef said:

dxb335d said:

jollygreen said:

Anyone know what chipping these things does to fuel economy?

Not much. Mine has always been pretty bad.

Well given what you stated 45mpg + & 70mph your clearly driving it very hard a lot of the time as if you wanted & restrained a little you could get exceptional MPG for the petformance.

Oh yes i agree, My father once had a 535d 272bhp and was always getting over 40mpg.

I do drive a little to hard so my consumption is pretty bad. But would be worse if i had an M3.

[jollygreen]

Welshbeef said:

dxb335d said:

Mine on flat level road at 70mph and 1/4 throttle is well over 45mpg. on the needle.

272 or 286?
Thnx

You're not the guy that kicked off the whole "mapped" 335d debacle are you?

[rossfitz]

Been researching potential remedies for poor mpg and it seems the best way to clean injectors is to use an additive like Millers or BP ultimate diesel. Also, I'm off the Sainsburys cheap fuel. Lets see if I can improve on 30.9mpg after a couple of tanks of good stuff!

[juliann]

10 Miles of 70mph @ c. 1600 RPM from my Jan 05 build 535d M Sport Touring (131,000 miles)

Got too boring to do any more than that !

[Andy M]

juliann said:

10 Miles of 70mph @ c. 1600 RPM from my Jan 05 build 535d M Sport Touring (131,000 miles)

Got too boring to do any more than that !

In all your time with the car, have you ever used anything to clean the internals of the engine? Or do you aim for a specific make of diesel?

[juliann]

Nothing used to clean engine, just dealer serviced, usually Supermarket fuel but have recently switched to Shell (std) as it's the cheapest where I live and I seem to get an extra 60 miles per tank with it.

[Andy M]

juliann said:

Nothing used to clean engine, just dealer serviced, usually Supermarket fuel but have recently switched to Shell (std) as it's the cheapest where I live and I seem to get an extra 60 miles per tank with it.

What sort of mileage do you get to a tank?

I'm currently getting circa 500 miles, but have been doing quite a bit of city driving.

[juliann]

I do a long journey 2 x week. Get a range of 378 + 120 left after the journey. I do the journey at 'quiet' times but my ave mpg on that route is not very good ;-)

[rossfitz]

OK, so filled tank with BP standard diesel, got tyres to correct pressure and used Millers additive, average went from 30.9 to 39. That's more like it!

[bennno]

rossfitz said:

OK, so filled tank with BP standard diesel, got tyres to correct pressure and used Millers additive, average went from 30.9 to 39. That's more like it!

How much did the millers additive cost per mile?

Bennno

[Welshbeef]

juliann said:

10 Miles of 70mph @ c. 1600 RPM from my Jan 05 build 535d M Sport Touring (131,000 miles)

Got too boring to do any more than that !

It really is the ultimate real world car. Great performance, good efficiency, practical & looks good.

Do you have the Business Nav or is it Pro but as you have other info on your idrive does it shrink the Nav until you have finished with the screen?

[juliann]

It's pro with voice activation/address input. The Nav (or any other function) only ever uses the left hand larger portion of the screen. The smaller r/h area can be set to nothing/map/computer/nav arrow view and probably one or two other things I've forgotten.

[rossfitz]

Not sure about Millers cost per mile, but it's £12 from Halfords and I used about 1 tenth of contents for a 60 litre fill up.

[Welshbeef]

juliann said:

It's pro with voice activation/address input. The Nav (or any other function) only ever uses the left hand larger portion of the screen. The smaller r/h area can be set to nothing/map/computer/nav arrow view and probably one or two other things I've forgotten.

When it comes to replacement time currently would it just be the newer 535d with the 286bhp unit or would it be a 335d?


With the latest 330d pushing out 245bhp up 14bhp on the old one I wonder how long it will be before BMW up the ante again with the x35d unit? What will it be next over 300bhp std.... & probably better MPG to boot.

As a brand BMW pretty much has it all wrapped up.

[juliann]

[quote=Welshbeef]

When it comes to replacement time currently would it just be the newer 535d with the 286bhp unit or would it be a 335d?
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I need the space and weight of the 5er (or something similar) for towing & racing stuff.

[DaveCavRS4]

jollygreen said:

Welshbeef said:

dxb335d said:

Mine on flat level road at 70mph and 1/4 throttle is well over 45mpg. on the needle.

272 or 286?
Thnx

You're not the guy that kicked off the whole "mapped" 335d debacle are you?

Edited by DaveCavRS4 on Tuesday 16th September 14:01