E90 330i trip to George 2012

[Philip Foglar]

So Friday at around 3 in the afternoon Jandre and myself set off for George on a full tank of fuel. Mostly stuck to the speed limits (plus 9 km/h), and had a few slow roadworks/accident sections, but mostly free flowing which was great! Eventually we arrived in Hartenbos where we stayed over until Sunday, distance was exactly 400 km and the average consumption was sitting on 8.4 l/100 km at that point with slightly more than half tank still remaining!

Car went very well and I am impressed with the Bridgestone RFT's - the car has never been as confident and sure-footed as it was on this trip!

After going to the motorshow and a few other trips for food, and GPS purchases (we bought four, because that's how we roll)! Sunday morning we stop at Engen along the N2 to fill up - distance travelled was 635.9 km and she took 56.54 l of fuel which worked out to an overall consumption figure of 8.9 l/100 km!

My car clocked over to 60k km!! LOL, and now probably dropped in value by R20k plus! :nonono: :roflol:

By the time we got back to Durbanville the average consumption had settled on 9.1 l/100 km, so almost a litre per 100 km more than when we went through, but had lots of slower car to overtake as well as some of the classic cars from the show that left early, also slightly warmer than it was on the Friday.

Gave her a nice wash, and she seems to have survived the trip without any major stone chips or tar damage from the stretched of roadworks - sensible following distances FTW! :thumbs:

 

[XMAX]

good one.


see people..... proof that a 330i is not heavy on fuel....

 

[Philip Foglar]

Thanks! Yep, and in reality I wasn't really trying to drive economically most of the time. Now that I think of it, when I drove down I hardly used the cruise control, but the trips through to George from Hartenbos and back and then a lot of the way back to Cape Town I did, so maybe my driving style when not making use of the cruise control is slightly more economical - I tend use off throttle as much as possible when going down long steeper hills and then allow the car to pick up some extra speed before climbing the next hill, whereas the cruise control just holds the set speed regardless...

 

[herr bmw]

great one philip:thumbs:

 

[ASH M]

I'm averaging 16l/100km at the moment :fencelook:

But yep, on the long run its certainly frugal, i also get around 9. My best was 8.2l/100km.

 

[FaSTandFurious]

Not too bad man

 

[Philip Foglar]

Thanks guys, oh and of course, aircon running a lot of the time too.

 

[naushad]

is ur 330i man or auto

 

[Prev]

Good goin dude. Being driving very conservatively for the past few weeks and averaging 10.4 l/100km on my E46 320i on local driving. I'm quiet impressed that I managed that but its so painful to drive so slow.

 

[Philip Foglar]

is ur 330i man or auto

She is a manual. :thumbs:

 

[Sankekur]

good one.


see people..... proof that a 330i is not heavy on fuel....

Not rude, but I am going to have to say, duuuh :rollsmile:








The consumption on my 330i after driving down from PTA to ballito in september last year (Three guys in the car, and boot full of stuff):

And when I got home:

And this did include some "sampling" of the denser coastal air :grin:

 

[Philip Foglar]

Very very impressive!!! :thumbs:

 

[maximus]

Wished I had such good fuel economy :facepalm: :grin: Great write up :thumbsup:

 

[Niju06]

good going man. I'm also impressed to see that you have an '05 model and you've only done 60000kms. I've done 39500km in 2 years.

 

[Philip Foglar]

good going man. I'm also impressed to see that you have an '05 model and you've only done 60000kms. I've done 39500km in 2 years.

Thanks! Yep, previous owner only did roughly 46k km in five years, so in the almost two years that I've owned the car I have only added a humble 14k km. :rollsmile: