330d fuel consumption

[Lancs Jag Boy]

I had a 2006-56 330d M-Sport Auto. I never got better than 39mpg and I did quite a lot of motorway work. The car was well serviced had 50k miles and tyres in excellent condition. I carried no weight and rarely had passengers. The difference in motorway consumption at 90mph+ to a steady 75mpg was negligible.

Great car and I can't wait for my new F30 330d. I'm hearing tales of 44mpg from the sales guy who is running the demonstrator at the dealer, which sounds good to me, if some way off the official BMW figure.

[Birdster]

38mpg here with an auto coupe.

That's a 80-90 odd mile commute depending on exact route.

70miles motorway, then 10 miles between 30mph and 50mph.

Driven it how it's meant to be driven. :-)

[stuart-b]

I can't speak for the 330d, but my 320d ED (AmD remap@215+ bhp) is currently providing me with this



At 80 mph I get 48-49 mpg.

I imagine the 330d will be less, but depends how you drive.

I'd get one in an instant if I could get insurance on it over here.

[Kuroblack350]

I'm getting an average of 42mpg from my 2011 330d coupe (auto). That's manually calculated over the last 3.5k miles, more than happy with that

[nottyash]

stuart-b said:

I can't speak for the 330d, but my 320d ED (AmD remap@215+ bhp) is currently providing me with this



At 80 mph I get 48-49 mpg.

I imagine the 330d will be less, but depends how you drive.

I'd get one in an instant if I could get insurance on it over here.

I am amazed at the outside temp

[stuart-b]

nottyash said:

I am amazed at the outside temp

Haha yes, that was pretty nippy, I think by that point I was in Slovenia. By the time I arrived it was 37-38c.

[Chr1sch]

On a decent say 70 mile motorway journey my Nov 06 530d auto does 42mpg comfortably at a steady 80

Once up to speed I always put it into 6th in manual mode as I've never understood 4th gear kick down frm 6th with all that torque!

[GregE240]

2006 330D SE saloon bought last June. Since buying it, we've averaged 40.9 according to the trip.

Most motorway based tanks see nigh on 600 miles at about 42/43.

It's fab.

[Mark34bn]

OK, the OBC is telling us we're getting 28mpg combined which is 2 miles urban & 15 miles dual carriageway each day.
The missus put £28 of fuel in last week and now (60 miles later) the gauge is back where it was. She's worked this out to be 17mpg. I had a look at the air filter last night and it was a bit grey but not too bad.
We have a full warranty on the car so tomorrow I may phone the dealer and explain the situation to him.
We can't afford to keep it if it's doing 17mpg, my E36 328i returns better mileage than that!
I may start a topic in General Gassing about the chances of returning / rejecting a car to a 2nd hand dealer.

[Birdster]

Reset it and take the car for a proper motorway run. If I'm in slow moving, or 40mph odd stop/start traffic it will drop to 30mpg.

[Mark34bn]

Hi, how do you reset it?
Is this the key in position 2 for 10 seconds, then turn the car off for 10 seconds trick?

Edited by Mark34bn on Tuesday 9th October 21:27

[wibblebrain]

My 2007 330d will do 45 - 47mpg on a run, but will drop to 40-41 mpg average over a period of mixed road driving.

Giving it the beans will easily drop it to 37 mpg or even lower.

I would suggest that an overall average of 40 - 42 mpg would be a realistic expectation.