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Smartbear

Lifer
 a barn in Somerset
Very pleased with my z4 as a daily driver, it's comfortable & makes driving to work a pleasure.
The economy is pretty good as well 👍
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Rob
 
You sure you haven’t just forgotten to reset the trip!?

I saw over 300 Miles out of the last tank and I was pretty happy!
 
SteveSmith said:
You sure you haven’t just forgotten to reset the trip!?

I saw over 300 Miles out of the last tank and I was pretty happy!
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Nope, that’s pretty normal for my car-getting on for 500 Miles a tank :thumbsup:
Rob
 
Ditto Rob,
I can drive mine Plymouth to Hull, 340 miles door to door with .25 of a tank left.
That's on Tesco super unleaded, car is treated to a Terraclean every 10k.
I am on cruise at 75mph most of the way but stop regularly as I like to do a 'space-ex type service station exit' BLAST OFF...
 
Smartbear said:
Very pleased with my z4 as a daily driver, it's comfortable & makes driving to work a pleasure.
The economy is pretty good as well 👍
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Rob
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Surely you've had it mapped for that type of economy? I only just about manage 550 miles in my Honda Civic Diesel!
 
idej_jedi said:
Smartbear said:
Very pleased with my z4 as a daily driver, it's comfortable & makes driving to work a pleasure.
The economy is pretty good as well 👍
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Rob
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Surely you've had it mapped for that type of economy? I only just about manage 550 miles in my Honda Civic Diesel!
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Fuel economy is unaffected by mapping, it seems only diesels improve this way with a remap :?
Rob
 
hi,

My 2.0 M Sport AUTO only gives me 32MPG, i was very surprised as i expected around 38ish.... but my Landcover Discovery 3.0 diesel gives

me 32 mpg and on a run around 35mpg, and its bigger in every way.

As my daily driver the Z4 i am surprised at the MPG.

sal
 
salb said:
hi,

My 2.0 M Sport AUTO only gives me 32MPG, i was very surprised as i expected around 38ish.... but my Landcover Discovery 3.0 diesel gives

me 32 mpg and on a run around 35mpg, and its bigger in every way.

As my daily driver the Z4 i am surprised at the MPG.

sal
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It’s all to do with the way you drive it, I could easily get 25mpg if I wanted to :o
Rob
 
i have been commuting around 35 miles round trip, its an auto box but still can't get it up yo 38ish, and i didn't think i had a heavy

right foot.

Interesting to see all those 2.0 owners on here what they are getting.

sal
 
None of my Zs have been daily's so MPG never really been a thought but its hard not to be impressed by your car's capabilities Rob , mighty impressive numbers for the BHP & torque on offer .
The 35i on last weeks 1300 mile France trip averaged around 32-33mpg which i was more than happy with but soon drops to 22mpg on a sporty drive out :driving: for direct comparison on the Mway run home from eurotunnel i managed 330miles at 74-78 mph but arrived home with just 12miles left :cry:
 
salb said:
i have been commuting around 35 miles round trip, its an auto box but still can't get it up yo 38ish, and i didn't think i had a heavy

right foot.

Interesting to see all those 2.0 owners on here what they are getting.

sal
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Have you tried resetting the obc in case your fighting against a long term average?
Rob
 
Tescos momentum lol.......... but i do love the little beauty so in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter otherwise i would be in a

1.0 diesel polo as a daily driver.

As along as everything runs at optimum performance i guess it is what it is, guess a few more hours at work a month just to have the

pleasure of driving it.

sal
 
I use my 2.0 manual as a daily driver having done 30,000 in last two years, throuought that time averaging app 40 mpg. Possible improvement in economy being that I often get restricted on the M1 with the 60mph speed cameras, but does also include some town commuting. Had an MR2 previous which returned similar.
 
mr wilks said:
None of my Zs have been daily's so MPG never really been a thought but its hard not to be impressed by your car's capabilities Rob , mighty impressive numbers for the BHP & torque on offer .
The 35i on last weeks 1300 mile France trip averaged around 32-33mpg which i was more than happy with but soon drops to 22mpg on a sporty drive out :driving: for direct comparison on the Mway run home from eurotunnel i managed 330miles at 74-78 mph but arrived home with just 12miles left :cry:
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I can assure you Mr Wilks, in southern France last year Rob was getting nothing like 40mpg when I was with him :wink: :driving:
 
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