320d Manual vs 320d Auto

[carelvos]

Hi Guys,

I'm new here, and just bought my second BMW - 2008 E90 Auto.

Just a little history on my E46 - I bought it five years ago with 60k on the clock and traded it in yesterday with 222k on the clock. While it was still on motorplan they replaced the intake manifold (it was flawed apparently) and a wheel / abs sensor. Two years ago I had to replace some bushes on the front suspension that caused loud noises when you went over bumps.

Apart from this I serviced the car myself - only oil and oil filter on the oil service and air, oil, oil filter and diesel filter on the "inspection" service - nothing else.

I had no other problems with this car, and got fuel consumption of 5l / 100km on open road without fail - even at 160km/h and rarely more than 6l / 100km in town and surrounding areas.

Could other guys please share their experience with the e45 320d (mine was a 2004 model)

Now, today was my very first day driving the auto in town - and I was JUST in town, no open roads (and I must mention it is my very first automatic) and my consumption is at 9l / 100km.

Is this normal? - am I driving it wrong? - any suggestions are welcome.

Sorry for the long post

 

[Thunder]

Welcome to the forum.

How about some pictures of your ride?

 

[Chismakop]

welcome :thumbs: yes we love PICS:inlove:

 

[Sabretooth tiger]

E45 320d?:thinking:

I have E90 320d LCI. I get in town 6.5l/100km. Open road trip now to EastLondon at 140km/h did 1080km out of the tank at5.2l/100km.

 

[OppositeLockMT]

Welcome to the forum :thumbs:

What's your mileage? might give us a better indication of what is going on with the car.

 

[milu]

Welcome :=): with my e46 facelift i get ave 7L/100km and my folk's car which is an e90 320d, they get 9ish in town but they do have an auto where as i have a manual :thumbs:

 

[Werner135]

Also had two automatics and one manual, I found the autos to be better on highway consumption wise but also never minded the higher consumption in traffic, just beats the clutch in - clutch out:=):

 

[carelvos]

Thanks for all the responses.

I had to go to Hoedspruit and back today - a 300km drive, and I got 15km / l (I changed the computer to show it like that instead of l/100km)

120km 60 there and 60 back is through townships where there is taxis / cattle / goats / pedestrians in the road where I had to accelerate hard to overtake because of oncoming traffic etc. I estimate that I overtook about 100 cars on the trip - most of the time moving into sport mode before overtaking.

The rest of the trip I did 140-ish where I could.

What happens when you select sport mode? - Does the engine mapping change or just the revs the gearbox change gear at?

I noticed that when I select sport mode, the revs go up about 500rpm - but I don't notice the speed going up - that's impossible, unless there is some kind of overdrive that "gears down" when you select it - not that I noticed it.

My car has 55000km on the clock - and it is five years old - maybe it was an old guys car (no offence to the ooms) who didn't really drive it hard.

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E45 320d?:thinking:

*E46

 

[OppositeLockMT]

When you engage sport through the gear lever all it does is rev a bit more before it goes up a gear, I imagine DS is better suited to petrol cars.

 

[Dippies]

Welcome to the Forum :thumbs: