E30 Zone

just out of interest and a change too the how many mpg can you get threads . wot is the lowest mpg anyone has managed to get ? my m50 has got down to 18 +/ - mpg . but i normally get 30

dont know the math but put 40 quid in mine last week and did about 130 miles, poxy country lanes though, 325 of course

If my wife uses one of my cars just for her 'home to work' trip(0.8 of a mile each way)it will return less than 11mpg.....

Mine averages 18mpg but I managed 14mpg to a tank once!!

Mines doing less then 10mpg at the min.

less than 10

Mine is too flipping thirsty

out of £15 I get 20 miles, local urban relaxed driving with two heavy rightfoot symdrome episodes

how about we start a thread

How to improve your mpg and then we can have a checklist created by lets say Brainmoore

I wreckon most of us could benefit from this.

My m50 would consistantly give me around 18mpg too. I get at least 23mpg from the m52 - and its only really used around town.

I did manage about 14mpg once when i had a fuel leak though

My track car did an average 7mpg around Oulton when it was at the mercy of Bob_S

Hypermiling is the way to go .

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Ranchero wrote:Hypermiling is the way to go .

http://www.gasolinecreditcards.com/ecot ... resources/

no smiles per miles is the way to go

DanThe wrote:My track car did an average 7mpg around Oulton when it was at the mercy of Bob_S

7 mpg

0mpg, sitting on the drive with it running

Game wrote:0mpg, sitting on the drive with it running

i could get 0mpg without mine running on the drive and still have fuel left in the tank .

"Put your car in neutral: Coasting with your car in neutral takes the burden off your gas pedal preventing you from wasting fuel. If you’re not driving in heavy traffic, experiment with this effective money saver."

NO! So sick of hearing this on all the 'save fuel' sites. On overrun the fuel to injectors is cut. No fuel is used. At idle fuel is needed to keep the engine alive. Even ancient old Motronic 1.1 does decel fuel cut. Unless you have a carburettor you can pretty much negate this advice. Even if they are talking about light load cruise the engine is running just off idle and lean and will probably still use less fuel

/rant over.

When I first ran the megasquirt car at base calibration it did about 18-19mpg. Pulling it back to stoich took it up to 24-25 and with ultra lean cruise and a few tweaks to cold start and crank it's up at 27. This is on my usual commute, about 20mi mixed country and village.

I had a small problem somewhere with the running, with my fuel pressure reg leaking so at the time my 16 mile round trip to work cost £20 a time. Should've got the bus that week

Green wrote:I had a small problem somewhere with the running, with my fuel pressure reg leaking so at the time my 16 mile round trip to work cost £20 a time. Should've got the bus that week

how do you check this and also did yours stink of fuel on idle

thanks

ETERNITY wrote:

Green wrote:I had a small problem somewhere with the running, with my fuel pressure reg leaking so at the time my 16 mile round trip to work cost £20 a time. Should've got the bus that week

how do you check this and also did yours stink of fuel on idle

thanks

Yeah stank of petrol, it was leaking where the FPR is attached to the fuel rail and pissing it out. Although I feel there might still be a slight leak somewhere as from time to time there's a wiff of fuel about when idling or turning it off. But now i'm getting 100 miles to £20 so I'm rather happy with that as that for now!

Green wrote:

ETERNITY wrote:

Green wrote:I had a small problem somewhere with the running, with my fuel pressure reg leaking so at the time my 16 mile round trip to work cost £20 a time. Should've got the bus that week

how do you check this and also did yours stink of fuel on idle

thanks

Yeah stank of petrol, it was leaking where the FPR is attached to the fuel rail and pissing it out. Although I feel there might still be a slight leak somewhere as from time to time there's a wiff of fuel about when idling or turning it off. But now i'm getting 100 miles to £20 so I'm rather happy with that as that for now!

100 miles of £20 is that urban driving or motorway

wow

I cant physically see any fuel leaking but might have this issue too.

9-10 mpg on track in my 2.7 pina. always 23 plus around the towns and upto a solid 30mpg on a long steady run.

Not sure about the lowest but I was well happy to drive my e30 to germany (465 miles) on £90 ....

I run my car to first warning yesterday and put "£15" in, she did "61.4" miles and I flapped and put petrol in lol. Didn't get first warning but it wasn't far off......

Engine is m52 so I'm impressed with this tbh, she regularly gives 40 odd miles to a tenner... But only if I'm nice!!!
With lead foot I'd get a lot less lol

What do you guys think of this? I'm not good with mpg's and I haven't yet bought the chip for my obc to read correctly

e30-dk wrote:I run my car to first warning yesterday and put "£15" in, she did "61.4" miles and I flapped and put petrol in lol. Didn't get first warning but it wasn't far off......

Engine is m52 so I'm impressed with this tbh, she regularly gives 40 odd miles to a tenner... But only if I'm nice!!!
With lead foot I'd get a lot less lol

What do you guys think of this? I'm not good with mpg's and I haven't yet bought the chip for my obc to read correctly

i'm not good with working out mpg so i use this to work it out for me www.torquecars.com/tools/uk-mpg-calculator.php

Thanks for that mate, acording to that my 2.8 m52 does around town on average-

25.1mpg

£15.00@ £1.34.9 per litre = 61.4 miles but.... As I said in my last post I didn't get first warning again cos I flapped lol. Could of got another 10 miles I reckon

25 is not bad as i see there are a few making single figures . if i ever man-up enough to get on track i will know wot to expect

When the light comes on you have about 5 litres left in the tank.
If I can be arsed I can get 38mpg + from my 3.2 donk

Smart arse! lmao

By the look of it a few people need to give their chariots a dam good service! Either that or go 24v

im usually getting 35-38mpg out of my is

monkey wrote:25 is not bad as i see there are a few making single figures . if i ever man-up enough to get on track i will know wot to expect

Even around the track (nurburgring) I was only using 22euros(156.per litre) every 4 laps and at 12. something miles per lap I was very pleased the the 2.7 eta engine

Mine works out at 15.57 mpg around town...

£20.00 for 50 miles round town on average

E30 325i Touring M20

ETERNITY wrote:

Green wrote:

ETERNITY wrote: how do you check this and also did yours stink of fuel on idle

thanks

Yeah stank of petrol, it was leaking where the FPR is attached to the fuel rail and pissing it out. Although I feel there might still be a slight leak somewhere as from time to time there's a wiff of fuel about when idling or turning it off. But now i'm getting 100 miles to £20 so I'm rather happy with that as that for now!

100 miles of £20 is that urban driving or motorway

wow

I cant physically see any fuel leaking but might have this issue too.

It's a mix of both but mainly my commute to work, today I finished up on 130 miles on £25 but that was run right down to the bottom of the red and lasted since tuesday. I had a little drive around the country lanes, a mcdonalds dinner and a couple of runs into town, that's about it!
Although I don't go easy on the throttle down the A5

DanThe wrote:When the light comes on you have about 5 litres left in the tank.
If I can be arsed I can get 38mpg + from my 3.2 donk

Mine will do 30+mpg if driven normally, l usually average 25ish, and it hardly get driven gently. Big donk with enough valves FTW

penton08 wrote:

DanThe wrote:When the light comes on you have about 5 litres left in the tank.
If I can be arsed I can get 38mpg + from my 3.2 donk

Mine will do 30+mpg if driven normally, l usually average 25ish, and it hardly get driven gently. Big donk with enough valves FTW

so from 20mpg up to 30 for my m50 is about the same as a s50 mpg wise but i bet you have more fun

Power to weight is the key, 6th gear helps also