47.8 MPG from a 2.8!

Pah high mpg is easy. Try getting low teens now that’s work ;)
 
For some reason if I leave the burger van on a Saturday in Basingstoke heading to the zedshed my fuel seems to leak out of somewhere. Well the mpg seems to go to low 20’s. No idea why. :ymdevil:
 
I am getting between 32mog to 35mpg with a mixture of driving. Has definitely improved after fitting a new front brake caliper. (3.0 model)
 
Just done 200 miles mostly motorway miles red light was on when I set off and took £30 of fuel red light came on again about 5 miles from home , I was taking it easy staying around 60 is which works out around 35 mpg not bad I thought for a 2.8 !!!!
 
Once I get my 2.8 on the road I plan on getting as little as possible and my first set of tyres probably wont last log either :D
 
umm ok maybe I was wrong to think there wasn't much difference in consumption between the 4 pot and 6, to be honest this was the original reason I opted for the 4 pot, I was in the market for a 350z but the z3 kept coming up in the results and little cogs started turning, then though ok what if I go the whole hog and go for the smaller one and save on fuel. running the 350z I would have needed a second mortgage, but if you think all of your fuel consumption is bad try running a jap import 2.2vtec OMG it was thirsty.
 
Well that makes me well pleased with the M. Last years Euro trip (shade over 3000k) she did 28mpg and given the company I was in that aint bad. And 32 mpg on last years Scottish week.
 
Jack Ratt said:
Here is my documented fuel history for my black 2.8 auto R10GJO from the day I bought it back on 13th December 2013 to the last fill up on 28th May 2018. For some reason (my computer incompetency) the date column hasn't copied =))

All MPG is calculated from fuel to miles ratio

43.00LTRS £55.86 282MILES 29.77MPG
35.00LTRS £46.12 208MILES 26.98MPG
32.01LTRS £41.90 191MILES 27.08MPG
40.02LTRS £51.19 256MILES 29.04MPG
42.02LTRS £54.59 260MILES 28.09MPG
41.03LTRS £52.48 255MILES 28.22MPG
37.15LTRS £49.74 228MILES 27.86MPG
40.58LTRS £56.37 247MILES 27.63MPG
40.39LTRS £52.06 242MILES 27.20MPG
38.98LTRS £49.47 230MILES 26.79MPG
40.28LTRS £51.52 250MILES 28.18MPG
38.33LTRS £49.79 258MILES 30.56MPG
36.08LTRS £46.87 245MILES 30.83MPG
41.93LTRS £52.79 270MILES 29.23MPG
38.96LTRS £49.83 269MILES 31.35MPG
31.60LTRS £39.15 210MILES 30.17MPG
33.78LTRS £42.12 222MILES 29.83MPG
43.56LTRS £49.18 245MILES 25.53MPG
42.03LTRS £45.77 264MILES 28.52MPG
39.95LTRS £43.83 246MILES 27.96MPG
42.32LTRS £47.36 256MILES 27.46MPG
41.53LTRS £47.30 264MILES 28.80MPG
33.94LTRS £39.34
39.31LTRS £45.17 466MILES 28.88MPG
37.66LTRS £43.27 241MILES 29.05MPG
19.60LTRS £22.91 126MILES 29.28MPG
38.68LTRS £45.22 251MILES 29.48MPG
38.64LTRS £44.21 251MILES 29.49MPG
41.72LTRS £47.06 266MILES 28.94MPG
39.65LTRS £44.76 268MILES 30.68MPG
38.00LTRS £43.28 245MILES 29.27MPG
35.00LTRS £38.47 249MILES 32.29MPG
40.43LTRS £43.22 260MILES 29.19MPG
37.38LTRS £40.26 272MILES 33.04MPG
41.00LTRS £44.16 262MILES 29.01MPG
41.48LTRS £46.00 278MILES 30.43MPG
42.35LTRS £50.35 264MILES 28.30MPG
40.95LTRS £45.85 272MILES 30.16MPG
41.45LTRS £45.97 237MILES 25.96MPG
40.00LTRS £43.16 275MILES 31.21MPG
44.10LTRS £48.91 291MILES 29.96MPG
30.49LTRS £34.12 176MILES 26.21MPG
40.65LTRS £40.53 245MILES 27.36MPG
40.41LTRS £40.37 262MILES 29.43MPG
32.13LTRS £32.42 215MILES 30.37MPG
39.84LTRS £39.80 243MILES 27.69MPG
36.55LTRS £36.81 242MILES 30.05MPG
35.04LTRS £36.41 231MILES 29.93MPG
38.01LTRS £40.63 261MILES 31.17MPG
40.63LTRS £44.25 271MILES 30.28MPG
41.42LTRS £45.11 243MILES 26.63MPG
42.70LTRS £47.78 249MILES 26.47MPG
38.72LTRS £41.31 251MILES 29.43MPG
36.37LTRS £40.33 258MILES 32.21MPG
40.63LTRS £44.66 259MILES 28.94MPG
38.16LTRS £40.34 273MILES 32.48MPG
32.54LTRS £34.72 257MILES 35.85MPG
41.93LTRS £46.50 259MILES 28.04MPG
24.79LTRS £27.99 189MILES 34.61MPG
30.48LTRS E44.04 206MILES 30.68MPG
38.35LTRS E49.16 215MILES 25.45MPG
43.09LTRS £49.51 297MILES 31.29MPG
41.13LTRS £44.71 280MILES 30.91MPG
38.05LTRS £41.82 255MILES 30.42MPG
38.33LTRS £41.36 265MILES 31.39MPG
41.42LTRS £45.52 285MILES 31.24MPG
37.98LTRS £42.88 240MILES 28.69MPG
39.80LTRS £46.53 264MILES 30.11MPG
39.41LTRS £47.29 259MILES 29.84MPG
42.01LTRS £46.93 278MILES 30.04MPG
45.91LTRS £51.28 286MILES 28.28MPG
40.83LTRS £46.02 247MILES 27.46MPG
25.63LTRS £30.22 148MILES 26.21MPG
47.97LTRS £58.00 234MILES 22.14MPG
42.47LTRS £49.35 214MILES 22.87MPG
41.33LTRS £47.49 267MILES 29.33MPG
39.26LTRS £45.97 218MILES 25.21MPG
33.94LTRS £38.66 214MILES 28.63MPG
23.85LTRS £23.85 135MILES 25.70MPG
37.69LTRS £42.93 223MILES 26.86MPG
39.00LTRS £44.81 262MILES 30.50MPG
27.36LTRS £31.71 191MILES 31.69MPG
40.02LTRS £52.79 289MILES 32.79MPG

I've done the same for my Merc that goes back a few more years and I'm doing it for my other Zed too.

OCD or what? =))
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Jesus mate, you need a hobby =))
 
I had 50.4mpg out of my 2l Z4 (Monty), one day when I got stuck behind a lorry for 24 miles.

Mike
 
EnthuZiaZT said:
I had 50.4mpg out of my 2l Z4 (Monty), one day when I got stuck behind a lorry for 24 miles.

Mike
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You are not supposed to put a rope between you and the vehicle in front ;)
 
In my 3.2L Boxster I would often get 40MPG on a run, my excuse....I was keeping to speed limits due to average speed cameras :whistle:

The MPG on my 2.2 is mid to late 20's but I have a sticky front brake calliper which obv won't be helping matters
 
I wondered why the car twitched every time we passed a petrol station.
 
Retrospective Soothsayer said:
In my 3.2L Boxster I would often get 40MPG on a run, my excuse....I was keeping to speed limits due to average speed cameras :whistle:

The MPG on my 2.2 is mid to late 20's but I have a sticky front brake calliper which obv won't be helping matters
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My own 2.2 used to get 32mpg, went down to 30 or so when the inlet cam sensor died, and is now up to 35. Same bloke driving the same roads, perhaps the sensor had been going for a while.
 
Averaging around 40 from my 2.0 but that includes quite a lot of motorway driving at 70 :whistle:
 
littlefeller said:
try running a jap import 2.2vtec OMG it was thirsty.
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I had a 2.2 UK spec 5th gen Prelude (the funny looking one, which I loved).
Very similar to my 330i and 2.8 in that if you kept under say 3.5k rpm (which is plenty on any of those) it would be 300+miles a tank...
However I bought a Honda for ‘VTEC yo’ so that didn’t happen much...
 
Dino D said:
I had a 2.2 UK spec 5th gen Prelude (the funny looking one, which I loved).
Very similar to my 330i and 2.8 in that if you kept under say 3.5k rpm (which is plenty on any of those) it would be 300+miles a tank...
However I bought a Honda for ‘VTEC yo’ so that didn’t happen much...
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those lights aaarrrghhh
 
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