How many miles in your m3 from £30
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cecotto_singh
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I get about 100 miles from £30 of fuel.
I know it depends on the price you are paying for the fuel but the prices don't vary that much.
That's doing average driving in these sort of cars. Not blasting it everywhere but not driving slow either.
Around the town driving with a some 20 mile motorway trips.
So what are you guys getting?
And before anybody gets too anal, this is just a rough estimate and comparison.
Thanks
I know it depends on the price you are paying for the fuel but the prices don't vary that much.
That's doing average driving in these sort of cars. Not blasting it everywhere but not driving slow either.
Around the town driving with a some 20 mile motorway trips.
So what are you guys getting?
And before anybody gets too anal, this is just a rough estimate and comparison.
Thanks
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cecotto_singh
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60miles is that it?? My old girls not bad then.
Actually let's open this up to any BMW.
Actually let's open this up to any BMW.
25 litres around town will get me 100 miles
25 litres on a motorway run gets me about 140 ish miles
2.7 running on a maf and lambda.
25 litres on a motorway run gets me about 140 ish miles
2.7 running on a maf and lambda.
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full tank on the e39 530i sport manual is about 90 quid at them mo to fill up a 70 litre tank. i'll do 400 miles on full tank at about 26 mpg which is mainly town driving. so doing the maths £30 does 133 miles. the best i've got was 500 miles to a tank, 32mpg on average so that takes it up to 165 miles on £30
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Try to stick to £30 guys so it's easy to compare. Thanks
I had the sport out the other night, I put £25 of Shell unleaded in and went for a blast with the mrs.
It was a nice night so the roof was open and I was listening to the BTB exhaust in the tunnels in Wilmslow, I covered over 140 miles and still had over a quarter of a tank.
It was a nice night so the roof was open and I was listening to the BTB exhaust in the tunnels in Wilmslow, I covered over 140 miles and still had over a quarter of a tank.
The previous owner of my e30 reckoned he average around 25mpg with mixed driving, I never worked it out but it feels about right. I'm averaging 28mpg in the e36, both improve considerably on a long run as long as you can restrain yourself....
Never taken any notice of the £/mile, i just drive where I want or need to and fill up when it gets empty
Never taken any notice of the £/mile, i just drive where I want or need to and fill up when it gets empty
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180 miles of shredded tarmac, it must be the mind bending power of the M42 that causes all of the UK's roadworks...Jhonno wrote:£30 gets me 180 miles with M42 powwwwwarrrrs..
thinking about it i'd probably get about 190 miles of careful driving/cruising at approx 32mpg
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average 41.4 from my 318Ti daily
80 everywhere
@ goosie, I'm getting spam off your email dude, can you tweak it, probably not the only one.....
80 everywhere
@ goosie, I'm getting spam off your email dude, can you tweak it, probably not the only one.....
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Tweaking now...Ant wrote:average 41.4 from my 318Ti daily
80 everywhere
@ goosie, I'm getting spam off your email dude, can you tweak it, probably not the only one.....
Converting 30 pounds into Euros, at the cost per litre over here, my average consumption and kms converted to miles, I reckon 30 quid gets me 119 miles of 325i mixed driving.
These are sensations as hard to forget as they are to ignore.....
From £20 (orange light just came on) i got 96miles few weeks back (325i). Changing the blue temp sensor helped.
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£30 give's me about 110/120 of driving pleasure in my 320i........









