Touring Range

[RustyRuss]

Not overly confident in my 325i Tourings fuel guage, roughly how many miles do you think id get from a 325i touring tank of fuel, normal quiet driving, mostly motorway, some town? I always carry a gallon with me lol Thanks.

[Cotty]

I have done 280 miles on a tank but it still had more to go

[Brianmoooore]

There's a reserve light on the fuel gauge which should be quite accurate. After it comes on, anything more than 40 miles is pushing your luck.
The gauge has to go down a lot, lot further than most people think before the light comes on.

[Geeman]

300 from full to light going on when I had mine (all those years ago)

[gcorky]

There's a reserve light on the fuel gauge which should be quite accurate. After it comes on, anything more than 40 miles is pushing your luck.
The gauge has to go down a lot, lot further than most people think before the light comes on.

never hadf my low light illuminated and have had a range of less than 30.......what triggers this lamp.

is it switched on at sender end somehow??i wanna fix it.

[billgatese30]

should the light come on with all the other dash lights when the car is started

[Brianmoooore]

There's a reserve light on the fuel gauge which should be quite accurate. After it comes on, anything more than 40 miles is pushing your luck.
The gauge has to go down a lot, lot further than most people think before the light comes on.

never hadf my low light illuminated and have had a range of less than 30.......what triggers this lamp.

is it switched on at sender end somehow??i wanna fix it.

Seperate switch in the same sender unit. It probably works - you just haven't run it low enough.

[Brianmoooore]

should the light come on with all the other dash lights when the car is started

No

[billgatese30]

should the light come on with all the other dash lights when the car is started

No

good, means mine isn't bolloxed as i thought it was then

[oze30]

about 330 last tank from mine.. that's with spirited driving too!

[Geeman]

in a 325i Touring...?

[klu99apm]

With my 325 touring I used to get 330 from a tank, on a mixed route of motorway at about 75-80mph and some fast single carriageway, till I converted it to gas - I never use petrol now

I've never seen the light on mine - i even checked the bulb to make sure it was working!!

[Morat]

I get about 250 to the light on my normal commute with includes some fast country roads. I was at 280 and still no light after a long motorway trip, filled it up anyway.

My fuel gauge is arse anyway, it reads full at full and empty after about 100 miles. Both sender units seem to be in full working order

[oze30]

in a 325i Touring...?

Yep, witha superchips chip and a hint over unburnt fuel smell ( I think I need to change the plugs!)

thats until the reserve light comes on!

[Brianmoooore]

With my 325 touring I used to get 330 from a tank, on a mixed route of motorway at about 75-80mph and some fast single carriageway, till I converted it to gas - I never use petrol now

I've never seen the light on mine - i even checked the bulb to make sure it was working!!

Tank is 13.6 gallons, which would only be 24 MPG. You didn't get the light on, so it'll be more like 27 - 28 MPG, which is about right for a 325 and normal enthusiastic driving.
Ran out of LPG this morning - had to do about ten miles on petrol. Painfull!

[Morat]

So... what makes an engine less economic?
I'm sure there's a lot of answers to this but it seems that most people are accepting pretty low figures!

[tomtomiS]

my 325 touring did 330 until the light came on( mixture of motorway and a little bit of town plus some sitting in traffic) u can drive the fuel needle almost right off the guage. i was gonna see how far i could push it but i bottled out at 353 miles as i didnt have a can in the back. the 325i is more economic than my girlfriend's rover 220 coupe which is 2.0 16 valve. one of the main points of me buying the b25 was that it would be cheaper to run than the rover ( lol thats what i told her, funny tho as its actually true!) and not just cos i wanted another beemer!

[tomtomiS]

was quite pleased with the range on tank as ive only owned the car for a few weeks. it seems to be better on fuel if u fill it up rather than sticking in a tenner here and there.

[Simon13]

my record is 417 miles out of my 4dr 325i auto still had about 2 litres in the tank when i filled up

[tomtomiS]

thats quite impressive! were u slip streaming? lol

[tomtomiS]

are auto's better or worse than manuals for economy?

[320Touring]

I was getting 350 from a tank when over in europe, and that involved filling up as soon as the gauge got to the top of the red.running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere, Ukraine aint my idea of fun!

best i've ever done is 428 from a full tank (from full to light on) and that was with an m20b20 and a 4.27 diff.

[oze30]

I was getting 350 from a tank when over in europe, and that involved filling up as soon as the gauge got to the top of the red.running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere, Ukraine aint my idea of fun!

best i've ever done is 428 from a full tank (from full to light on) and that was with an m20b20 and a 4.27 diff.

That must have scared a few cars of the line!

[320Touring]

lol! its like going backwards, i tell ya!

teh 4.27 went on the 320i touring as standard to make folks think it was faster than it was. 4.1k at 80mph

[RustyRuss]

Wow thanks for all the replies guys - lot happier now! Will bypass petrol station today lol

[Morat]

heh, I just hope thats not the last post we see from RustyRuss until he gets dug out of a snowdrift ;)

[gareth]

i can sometimes get 200 from a tank but i don't push it past when the light first flickers. i only used to get another 20 or 30 miles with the 2.5...

that said, almost all of my driving is short runs from cold across town to work and back. i haven't been out of town much in it.

[toby]

I'm getting about 300 miles a tank in mine at the moment with mostly hilly motorway driving.

[RustyRuss]

heh, I just hope thats not the last post we see from RustyRuss until he gets dug out of a snowdrift ;)

LOL