Worst Fuel Consumption

[bobsyourdog]

Sorry for the lame thread :hammerhead: But this is driving me insane!

Every time I take off, I get a cold shiver as I look at the consumption gauge. No matter how carefully or gently I try take off my consumption sits between 30-39.5l/100 in first, 28-39.5 in 2nd, and by 3rd it may may drop below 20 and thats driving like a 78 year old blind woman.

If I even go to say 30-40% throttle it just caps out at 39.5 (think it's to embarresed to tell me the truth)

I even went through all the effort to upload a flik on youtube so you can like to believe me

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That video is in the parking lot, reached top speed of 12km and I think a church mouse could have applied more pressure to the throttle

Now I know I'm sounding like a tree hugging chick, but I live like 4kms from work so 97.21% of my driving is stop start. And R200 every 2-3 days is killin me

So my only possible conclusions are
1. I have a F1 Engine
2. My car has been chipped more than a grannies porcelain tea set and is more powerfull than a F1 car
3. I'm a twit and dont know how to drive
4. I'm an idiot and this is the normal from driving a great car

EDIT: Sorry forgot to say what car. Recently bought a 130i, now I know it's stronger than the moon and ///M6's but weaker than Chuck Norris - but this is just mad.

 

[STREETRACER]

Boet nice car! Don't reset the consumption gauge in town! Its meant for cruising on the freeway! Or long consistent town driving! You will get a fright what figures I get with any of my BMW's when I reset in town! Even my E91 320d shows 6km/l in town if just reset! But as I said its just an indicator to get a speed that suites you and your pocket best! Fill her up drive a day or two and fill her up again at approx same time in day at very same fuel pump and divide km's driven to liters used! And if it is still bad take it to the dealer!

 

[Coisman]

imp:
Let me ask you this...
did you buy her to check her drinking habits?
or to have her give you an erection every time you get inside her... :mmm:
Shit!! This sounds dirty...

 

[andrewbuch]

That consumption figure is the average since being reset.. So if you reset it & accelerate for 200metres its going to show high figures..

Rather reset it every tim e you fill up, therefore gettting the avearage consumption for the tank, it will go down..

If I reset mine on the 318i & drive home from the petrol station +- 1.5Km's it will start off showing up to 40l/100Km but after a few days driving it usually goes down to about 13 in town & 7 on open road

 

[Sankekur]

I am assuming that is the average consumption. That is pretty normal if it has just been reset, just idling for a couple of seconds right after resetting and you can can see how the consumption increases. Oh and seeing as you drive such a short trip to work, this also contributes a bit to the consumption as the engine overfuels when it is cold to get itself up to temperature.

 

[Cole]

used to have a mazda 3 mps, would show 99.9l/100 (probably would have shown higher if it could) active if i hammered it in first gear so 39.5l/100 is not bad!

 

[Threetwoeight]

Give the car to me - I can live with that.

Like mentioned by the other guys OR

You are looking at the instant fuel consumption and not the average fuel consumption. and that is normal figures


The instant fuel consumption is only available on models with a oil temp gauge in the rev counter.

 

[bobsyourdog]

Shot guys,

So looks like option 4 was correct then :hammerhead: 4. I'm an idiot and this is the norm.

Will full up this weekend and see what I actually get.

And yeah thats the instant fuel consumption gauge, not the average.