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You should get better than that for a diesel one... The figures sound ok for a 3 litre petrol car though!
I've got a e46 320d and 32mpg is what i get just doing nothing but short trips round town at <40mph with the engine cold all the time/spending half my life in traffic jams/etc. Perhaps you would get worse with a 3 litre diesel, especially if it's old like mine, but it surely wouldn't be THAT worse.
I've got a e46 320d and 32mpg is what i get just doing nothing but short trips round town at <40mph with the engine cold all the time/spending half my life in traffic jams/etc. Perhaps you would get worse with a 3 litre diesel, especially if it's old like mine, but it surely wouldn't be THAT worse.
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330d's
I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
MattOz said:
330d's
I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
How come you've had 6 MattOz?I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
MattOz said:
330d's
I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
I've not driven on the M40 very much but to me outside lane speed means somewhere around 85mph and, based on my own experience with a manual E46 330cd, I'd say the chances of averaging 45mpg in those circumstances are the square root of bugger all! I've had 6 of these over the last decade, so feel relatively qualified to comment!
Doing plenty of motorway miles, at outside lane of M40 speed, a 330d will happily average 45mpg. throw in a bit of town driving and it drops a little. All mine have averaged over 40mpg. All have been manuals. Tha auto is about 5mpg thirstier.
Matt
I'd also counsel caution with taking the mpg figure off the trip computer; I've had a couple of E46's (the aforementioned diesel and an M3) and in both cases the fuel consumption was optimistic by a couple of mpg. Not suggesting the figures you quote are based purely on the computer but if they are that might go some way to explaining why they look good! Personally I don't think 330d's achieve the combined mpg unless they're doing long runs and (at least in the case of my 330cd) driven relatively gently!
BalhamBadger said:
How come you've had 6 MattOz?
I tend to do about 20k miles a year, so tend to change cars fairly often. There is no better all rounder IMHO. I did have a 535d for a while, but it didn't cut it. A diesel is bought to be economical and the 535d wasn't. My E46 M3 was almost as frugal. If a 330d (manual) isn't resolutely doing 45mpg+ at a steady 80-85mph then there's something wrong with it. Time to look at air filter, injectors and perhaps oil separator.
MattOz said:
If a 330d (manual) isn't resolutely doing 45mpg+ at a steady 80-85mph then there's something wrong with it. Time to look at air filter, injectors and perhaps oil separator.
ge0rge said:
More than acceptable figures given the bhp and torque then really..
They really are very good cars. Never going to set the world on fire performance wise, but more than acceptable for every day use. I've had a 330i, and would take the 330d over it 99% of the time. The only department the petrol does "better" than the diesel is sound. If that's not a major concern, then the 330d is the way to go. Gassing Station | BMW General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff