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How many miles per tank

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Ok I would love to know how many miles you all get per full tank, mine is 1.9 and I get about 230 with a full tank! What about the rest of you? :roll: Most of my miles are to work, on B roads averaging 30 mph and at the weekend I do about 60 miles on A roads at the limit :twisted:
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2.8 and I get about 180 miles per tank. but that about 14 miles a day at an average of 14mph with plenty of throttle once warm... :| hmmm... it looks a lot worse when it's written down.

Meh, It's only money and the environment. I can make more of one and can stick my fingers in my ears and go LA la la la la to the other. :twisted:
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not sure what i get,around 25mpg,but i only did a total of 820 miles last year :oops: :oops:
ive most proberly got petrol in that tank from 1999 :lol: :lol:
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on my 3.0ltr Z4, I get 275 normally, but on a long run, I have managed 350 from a tank... :lol: :lol: :lol:



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1.9 and only 230 miles on a tank!!

Mines a 1.9 8v. I do about 620 miles a week, mostly motorway, but still only averge about 45 miles/hour (stop/start M1 M25). I get 360 miles on a tank. I guess i'm doing pretty well. Engine is standard except for improved air filtering/smoothing.

Does any one find the fuel consumption differs depending on whether you have the softtop up/down or the hardtop on?
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3.0 Z3, fuel light usually comes on after 260 - 280 miles or so. I haven't tried getting the tank REALLY low to see how many miles I can squeeze out of one tank, not worth the risk! :shock:

My driving is typically a combination of 20 mile 85mph-ish runs to & from work on the motorway, and a bit of pootling around S. Manchester.
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About 260-270 miles in a 1.9 16v when commuting - a mixture of A-road 70mph and B-road/urban 30mph stop/start. I do try not to let the fuel light go on as I have no idea of what's left at that point :?

I'm guessing that roof up will cause less drag than roof off, but driving style (i.e. weight of right foot!) will be a much bigger factor...
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My Alpina 3.4 has averaged 29.7mpg over the 24,000 miles covered to date.
This is circa 330 to the tank.
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Post by Robert T »

Well I can't say I've ever drained the tank, but I get somewhere around 220 miles in my 1.9 off 3/4 tank of fuel. Thats with quite a lot of short runs and town driving - only gets to stretch its legs at weekends.

I can't testify to the accuracy, but the odometer showed I'd used 1331.8 litres since last service in 8134 miles, which by my reckoning is an average of 28.7 mpg.

I do know that the needle heads downwards much more rapidly the more enthusiastically you drive! :mrgreen:

EDIT: Must have been drunk when I worked this out - it is 28.7 mpg NOT 45.5 mpg!!! I think I coverted the milage to gallons as though it were litres - doh!
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Post by Deano1712 »

I get 180 to 210 before the light comes on. Thats doing 10 - 20 mile journeys on open roads and motorways, driving enthusiastically, as they say.

I had an RX8 last year and once got 120 miles from a tank thrashing it down country lanes! :roll: Beemer is more fun to drive although the rex did sound good at 9500rpm :) .
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Post by Boysie »

Hi

I get about 230ish miles per tank
which i thought was terrible until I read this thread
A lot of you must have some very heavy shoes

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1.9 Z3. I get about 300 miles to a tank, mostly on country roads with the top down. fast wherever safe!
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My 97/1.9 always gives me about 300 miles a tank, travelling 80 miles a day on both rural roads and motorways at about 70 ish Did a mpg check going to Manchester last month and measured 36 mpg (280miles @ steady 75 mph), which is good enough for me :lol:
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I'm getting about 180 mpt lately, mainly due to the lead boot i'm wearing & the horns growing from my head :devil:

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Just had 270 miles out of a full tank !!! that's the most I've had out of her.

Normally averages 180 _- 200
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Just done a 330 mile trip on a tank - 2002 1.9 sport (roof up it was raining!)
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200 per tank on my M then I'm hunting for a service station. With V max I appear to be getting about 30 miles per tank more - weird or anyone else getting this.
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I'm happy if i get 180 miles out of a tank :P
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1998, 2.8 manual roadster. Nearly all my driving is stop start town stuff with the trip computer telling me:- average speed is 23mph :shock: (why the fork did I bother buying a 2.8!!) average fuel consumption is 30.8mpg! 240-250 miles to red light.
Which is pretty good I reckon, must be the low wind resistance due to 'natty's wax' :lol:
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I get about 30-35mpg out of my 2.2. Only use at weekends but thats with a lead right foot as well as cruising :)
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Phil wrote:With V max I appear to be getting about 30 miles per tank more - weird or anyone else getting this.
Yep have to agree with you there Phil. It's the same for me. prob 30-50 more miles per tank.

Even though it costs more, it works out more economical.
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My 3 litre averages 24mpg, almost all town driving - about 240 to the tank I nevr let it get much below a quarter tank as I don't want to dredge up crap from the bottom of the tank ( might be a myth but why chance it )

Incidentally I think 24mpg for a 3 litre is excellent, I only get 18 from my old saab turbo.
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Post by BimBeema »

Z3 2.2:

Only in town driving: 230 - 250 miles per tank
Mostly out of town with some in-town drives: 250 - 280 miles
Only out of town/motorway driving: 280 - 315 miles

I have to say though that my fuel consumption seems to have improved since I had the ecu remapped.
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how much in money terms is a full tank in a 1.9? roughly?
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how much in money terms is a full tank in a 1.9? roughly?
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I can't say I've ever put a full tank in, as I never wait for the rent light to come on. Filling up from about 1/4 full is about £25-£30, so a full tank would probably be about £40. Also it depends on what you run it on - mine usually only gets 95 RON - but I just put two tanks of V-Power in and am now on a tank of Sainsbury's Super - the V-Power was about another £1.50 on the bill, the Sainsbury's about 60p. IRRC the tank capacity on a Z3 is 52 litres - which is pretty small.
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I seem to manage to fill my 1.9 for around the £34.00 Mark £38 IF really empty ,V-Power all the time.

For that I get roughly 280miles BUT I have to say that is more foot down than most poeple would drive on here, IF I actually drove it sensible then maybe 300miles.
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my saxo that i'm trading in usually gets me about £40 a full tank and on average 330 miles. just interesting comparing :rtm:

as for v-power? i dont know whether its worth it. the old optimax i never noticed a difference in extended use before.
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paulio - you need an engine which can take advantage of the higher octane fuel in order for it to make any difference - the Z3 engines have anti-knock sensor that allows the engine management to adapt to the new fuel. It definitely makes my 1.9 feel a bit more responsive, but I'm not sure it is worth an extra £1.50 a tank - however the ///M cars really do run better on it.
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I seem to be averaging about 28 - 30mpg around town although I've had it up to something like 36.9 on a run whatever that would be.
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paulio81 wrote:as for v-power? i dont know whether its worth it. the old optimax i never noticed a difference in extended use before.
I didn't notice much with Optimax either... but with V-Power its a completely different car :lol: smoother, more responsive acceleration and more economical too :shock:

I have found you have to shop around for the best price though, and not all Shell garages sell it yet, at the nearest garages that sell it costs range from 91.9p to 97.9p per litre.
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www.petrolprices.com indicates that ordinary unleaded is as low as 83.9p/litre if you can find it. Super unleaded is 85.9p/litre - V-Power will be a few pence more - locally my cheapest is 90.9p/litre at Shell Wilmslow. It's a little fiddly to find the cheapest V-Power as you have to look for the cheapest Shell station that sells super unleaded.
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A roads get about 300 to the tank before I start to get nervous.
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FV101 Scorpion can do upto 644km in ideal conditions!

Oh, not THAT kind of tank :|

200ish!
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Post by BenZ3-2.0 »

I drove back from Devon on Vpower - was drving AROUND the limits, and did the return journey on a quarter of a tank less, Made a vast difference in my 2.0

Also found i got better MPG when my car was re-mapped, aslong as you werent hammering it which is rare!!
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i might give it a try then :mrgreen:
i'm still very much getting used to it as i only got mine on sunday lol. when i next need a fill up i shall use v-power, especially as my local garage is a shell so i dont have to drive far for it.
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Filled the 320td up yesterday, 590 miles on £45 of diesel! :shock:
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Just got 203 miles out of a tank of V Power till the light came on - mileage includes Dales cruise so well pleased. Got plenty of Joules out of that tank :)
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Just been for a run up to the Lakes - have just done 200 miles on HALF a tank of V-Power - I might become a convert yet! Have to see what it does on short trips, as that was mainly motorway driving.
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Robert T wrote:www.petrolprices.com indicates that ordinary unleaded is as low as 83.9p/litre if you can find it. Super unleaded is 85.9p/litre - V-Power will be a few pence more - locally my cheapest is 90.9p/litre at Shell Wilmslow. It's a little fiddly to find the cheapest V-Power as you have to look for the cheapest Shell station that sells super unleaded.
Just got an Asda credit card and I can now get normal unleaded for 81.9p/ltr (2p off) and home shopping delivered free :lol: .

I use Sainsbury's for super unleaded (86.9p/ltr) + Nectar points, but need to be passing there to make it worthwhile.

I used to get 320 - 350 out of a 55 litre tank in the Z3.

I now get about the same out of a 63 litre tank in the 330 :head:
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Travelling to and from Donington yesterday I used 3/4 of a tank before refuel on the way home and the odometer was showing 210 miles, so approx 280 miles per tank using super unleaded.

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im on about 170 miles and just passed half a tank. i will definitely try vpower. guzzles petrol compared to my previous car so i'm hoping for a bit more economy
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Mine is usually between 7,6 litre - 10 litre per 100 km, so this would be like 30 mpg to 28,4 mpg.
The lowest ever wax 6,7 litre (only done once in a slow traffic, but long distance) so like 37 mpg and the absolute maximum/minimum was 26 mpg.
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miles per gallon,
dont know,i just drive it and fill it up,as its a weekend sort of car, :D
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321bhp wrote:miles per gallon,
dont know,i just drive it and fill it up,as its a weekend sort of car, :D
Mine is not only a weekend toy, but when I fill it/her/him up, I usually reset the BC also, therefore I kindda remember the digits... :D
I also calculated the REAL consumption a few times and the BC is wrong for about 0,3l...I have been told that this can easily be calibrated, but hey...who cares - really? :D
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I get 165 miles per tank = 17mpg.
That's mainly short trips.
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stu wrote:Filled the 320td up yesterday, 590 miles on £45 of diesel! :shock:
We have a '54 120d and the mpg is just rediculous

We did Manchester to Cornwall (Lands End end, if you know what i mean), pottered round for 2 days and came home on 1.5 tanks! Not being Mr and Mrs Slow, either.

Compare that to my Zed... :shock: not sure i could afford it if i did more than 8000 miles a year. :|
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Around 12l/100km usually...mixed roads...2002 3.0 Sport
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I use the Z as my main car so it does the work run every day....this is usually stop start driving around town.....at the weekend I use it for going to football, golf and cricket so it gets fair use.....

I get about 230miles to the tank before I fill up.....i'm not sure how much more I have in the tank as I haven't risked going any closer to the line!! :D
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