Your fleet running reports

[McSwede]

1 month into life with the 330e and all is good. I continue to enjoy it as my daily and am still amazed at how frugal it is proving. December was always a month when I do less business miles and lots more personal miles due to time off and lots of little trips here and there. It'll be one heck of a lot cheaper now that the bulk of it will be on electric.

The use of electric is already seeing many less £££ leaving my pocket on fuel added to the chunk of cash I got back from HMRC in my wages 2 weeks ago plus regular £300+ per month BiK improvement. The 330e is full of win! I do miss the performance and fun of the M140i though.

Anyhow, 1 month in and below shows how well it's done. Nearly a quarter of my miles on electric has surprised me, as has the overall MPG. I really was expecting mid to high 30's with the amount of motorway miles that I do. Even back when I had my F11 520d I did 40k in about 10 months and averaged 37mpg. If I'd got a 320d touring I'd be paying loads more tax, more in private fuel and struggling to match the overall economy of the 330e. It really is a good car.

On top of all that it drives really well despite its weight, the ride is superb, it's pretty quick when needed, the interior is fab and very high quality and the Mocha leather looks awesome!

I continue to be very impressed!!

[Rich B]

I’ve been using the compact for a week now and enjoying it, but there are some modern conveniences I miss.

Outside temperature sensor. No idea why, I just like to know what’s going on outside. Retrofit in process, collecting bits isn’t easy as the compact obc is a lot less common than the full size e36.

Steering wheel volume controls. Because I’m lazy. Retrofit is possible using e38/39 button packs and a bit of wiring, may get round to it one day.

One touch indicators. Amazing how quickly you learn a behaviour and how long it takes to unlearn it. There’s a couple of roundabouts where I’m so used to just tapping the stalk for three flashes that I keep forgetting the e36 doesn’t do that, no doubt getting plenty of comments from other road users for being a typical bmw driver and not indicating

I always turn the one touch/3 flash indicators off on all my cars. If I want 3 flashes, I'll hold it down for 3 flashes!

[Jobbo]

1 month into life with the 330e and all is good. I continue to enjoy it as my daily and am still amazed at how frugal it is proving. December was always a month when I do less business miles and lots more personal miles due to time off and lots of little trips here and there. It'll be one heck of a lot cheaper now that the bulk of it will be on electric.

The use of electric is already seeing many less £££ leaving my pocket on fuel added to the chunk of cash I got back from HMRC in my wages 2 weeks ago plus regular £300+ per month BiK improvement. The 330e is full of win! I do miss the performance and fun of the M140i though.

Anyhow, 1 month in and below shows how well it's done. Nearly a quarter of my miles on electric has surprised me, as has the overall MPG. I really was expecting mid to high 30's with the amount of motorway miles that I do. Even back when I had my F11 520d I did 40k in about 10 months and averaged 37mpg. If I'd got a 320d touring I'd be paying loads more tax, more in private fuel and struggling to match the overall economy of the 330e. It really is a good car.

On top of all that it drives really well despite its weight, the ride is superb, it's pretty quick when needed, the interior is fab and very high quality and the Mocha leather looks awesome!

I continue to be very impressed!!

That is impressive. Do you always charge at home? Any idea of the effect on your electricity bill?

[McSwede]

1 month into life with the 330e and all is good. I continue to enjoy it as my daily and am still amazed at how frugal it is proving. December was always a month when I do less business miles and lots more personal miles due to time off and lots of little trips here and there. It'll be one heck of a lot cheaper now that the bulk of it will be on electric.

The use of electric is already seeing many less £££ leaving my pocket on fuel added to the chunk of cash I got back from HMRC in my wages 2 weeks ago plus regular £300+ per month BiK improvement. The 330e is full of win! I do miss the performance and fun of the M140i though.

Anyhow, 1 month in and below shows how well it's done. Nearly a quarter of my miles on electric has surprised me, as has the overall MPG. I really was expecting mid to high 30's with the amount of motorway miles that I do. Even back when I had my F11 520d I did 40k in about 10 months and averaged 37mpg. If I'd got a 320d touring I'd be paying loads more tax, more in private fuel and struggling to match the overall economy of the 330e. It really is a good car.

On top of all that it drives really well despite its weight, the ride is superb, it's pretty quick when needed, the interior is fab and very high quality and the Mocha leather looks awesome!

I continue to be very impressed!!

That is impressive. Do you always charge at home? Any idea of the effect on your electricity bill?

I may or may not have created a spread sheet

So far it's £56.78 and that covers probably 800 miles of electric driving. Not to shabby!

[scotta]

I’ve been using the compact for a week now and enjoying it, but there are some modern conveniences I miss.

Outside temperature sensor. No idea why, I just like to know what’s going on outside. Retrofit in process, collecting bits isn’t easy as the compact obc is a lot less common than the full size e36.

Steering wheel volume controls. Because I’m lazy. Retrofit is possible using e38/39 button packs and a bit of wiring, may get round to it one day.

One touch indicators. Amazing how quickly you learn a behaviour and how long it takes to unlearn it. There’s a couple of roundabouts where I’m so used to just tapping the stalk for three flashes that I keep forgetting the e36 doesn’t do that, no doubt getting plenty of comments from other road users for being a typical bmw driver and not indicating

I always turn the one touch/3 flash indicators off on all my cars. If I want 3 flashes, I'll hold it down for 3 flashes!

Weirdo.

[integrale_evo]

Agreed. There’s a couple of closely linked roundabouts where I do a left - right - left, and tapping the stall as I twirl the wheel has become a habit I’m finding hard to shake off

I’ll have a read of that retrofit when I can translate it, but good find

[__CA__]

Bosch > PIAA

IMO

PIAAs never really worked on the M3. Yet new Bosch wipers on the M3, Audi and Pug have been flawless.

[JonMad]

That is impressive. Do you always charge at home? Any idea of the effect on your electricity bill?

I may or may not have created a spread sheet

So far it's £56.78 and that covers probably 800 miles of electric driving. Not to shabby!

That 13.2miles/kWh was confusing me - must be based on the total of 3719, not the 883 electric only miles?
281kWh at 21p/kWh (assuming capped rate ) is £59, so yeah, matches your spend on electric.

How much have you spent on petrol?

As a comparison, if it was a pure EV doing that total mileage you'd get, what, 3.5miles/kWh, so that'd be about £223. Equivalent to 153 litres of petrol, 33.8 gallons = 109mpg.

[McSwede]

That is impressive. Do you always charge at home? Any idea of the effect on your electricity bill?

I may or may not have created a spread sheet

So far it's £56.78 and that covers probably 800 miles of electric driving. Not to shabby!

That 13.2miles/kWh was confusing me - must be based on the total of 3719, not the 883 electric only miles?
281kWh at 21p/kWh (assuming capped rate ) is £59, so yeah, matches your spend on electric.

How much have you spent on petrol?

As a comparison, if it was a pure EV doing that total mileage you'd get, what, 3.5miles/kWh, so that'd be about £223. Equivalent to 153 litres of petrol, 33.8 gallons = 109mpg.

I mentioned approx 800 miles I'd paid for as there's been 3-4 hours of free charging plus some where I have filled the battery using the engine on long runs to see what effect it has on economy. My cost is based upon 17p/kWh at home and the BMW app shows me my usage and cost.

I'll dig out fuel costs shortly.

[McSwede]

I may or may not have created a spread sheet

So far it's £56.78 and that covers probably 800 miles of electric driving. Not to shabby!

That 13.2miles/kWh was confusing me - must be based on the total of 3719, not the 883 electric only miles?
281kWh at 21p/kWh (assuming capped rate ) is £59, so yeah, matches your spend on electric.

How much have you spent on petrol?

As a comparison, if it was a pure EV doing that total mileage you'd get, what, 3.5miles/kWh, so that'd be about £223. Equivalent to 153 litres of petrol, 33.8 gallons = 109mpg.

I mentioned approx 800 miles I'd paid for as there's been 3-4 hours of free charging plus some where I have filled the battery using the engine on long runs to see what effect it has on economy. My cost is based upon 17p/kWh at home and the BMW app shows me my usage and cost.

I'll dig out fuel costs shortly.

The 2836 miles I have done have been on £500 of unleaded. Based on an average of £6.45 a gallon it works out at 36.6mpg just running on petrol.

It's amazing how much of a difference the electricity makes to the overall running costs.

If I'd done all my mileage on my home electric it'd have cost me £258.35 rather than £560. So it's just better than 50% cheaper to run on home electric. Much less so if you are using the shitty charger network out there in the wild.

In the first 2-3 weeks I tried using the charger network to see what it's like for someone like me who does decent mileage. Shit was my conclusion. Trying to find the bloody things sometimes is hard, then finding ones that area both available and functional nevermind the cost of some of them per kWh.

The hybrid works really well for me until such time as the charger network improves because I could not get enough power into a car quickly enough or conveniently enough to make a full electric work for me. I'd miss loads of meetings and probably have a stress induce heart attack

[Explosive Newt]

£29k

Lovely, gorgeous, utterly out of the budget.

[Explosive Newt]

I have nothing much exciting to say about the Golf. It is competent but boring; touch wood since the initial check engine light it threw (EVAP system) there haven't been any issues. It's refined enough to make the 3 hours up to Leeds do-able, adaptive cruise makes my life much easier and there is enough poke to overtake dawdlers on the A10.

After some tyre wrangling, I decided against an all-season tyre and kept the Golf on Continental EcoContacts (it was wearing the EcoContact 5, now it is on 6s). The eco-contacts, as far as I could see, actually had very good wet weather performance and the only benefit would be in snow (with some losses in terms of dry performance and economy for e.g. the CrossClimate 2s).

[Foz]

£29k

Lovely, gorgeous, utterly out of the budget.

[Jimexpl]

Fictional car update -
My Discovery Sport that didn’t come in September still has no delivery date, but it will be a ‘23 model year so we can assume it won’t be here before July/August.
The dealer sent a ‘good news’ email to me yesterday, to tell me that the specification will be increasing.
This also includes dark rear tints, which I don’t want as my daughter feels car sick with them.
The good news also includes a price increase as a reward for waiting a year longer than the quoted delivery date!

If they can’t get it without the tints and honour the price we’ll stick with the current one. It does everything we need and runs better every day since ticking over 30k miles.

325ti -
Issues with my congestion charge residents discount renewal mean that it’s not seeing much use, so I think I’ll move it on. Anyone interested in a 88k mile silver Compact?

White Land Rover
Sorting out teething issues after the rebuild. Need to fit rear seats in it over Xmas, then plan driving it back to Cornwall.

Mini/Red Land Rover/Green Land Rover
Haven’t really gone anywhere.
Trying to decide if I should sell the defender, but if I put the money in the bank I’ll spend it, and the defender still seems to increase in value. We paid £21.5k for it 6 years ago, have spent about £3k maintaining/improving it and I think it would make £32k today.

[mr_jon]

That 13.2miles/kWh was confusing me - must be based on the total of 3719, not the 883 electric only miles?
281kWh at 21p/kWh (assuming capped rate ) is £59, so yeah, matches your spend on electric.

How much have you spent on petrol?

As a comparison, if it was a pure EV doing that total mileage you'd get, what, 3.5miles/kWh, so that'd be about £223. Equivalent to 153 litres of petrol, 33.8 gallons = 109mpg.

I mentioned approx 800 miles I'd paid for as there's been 3-4 hours of free charging plus some where I have filled the battery using the engine on long runs to see what effect it has on economy. My cost is based upon 17p/kWh at home and the BMW app shows me my usage and cost.

I'll dig out fuel costs shortly.

The 2836 miles I have done have been on £500 of unleaded. Based on an average of £6.45 a gallon it works out at 36.6mpg just running on petrol.

It's amazing how much of a difference the electricity makes to the overall running costs.

If I'd done all my mileage on my home electric it'd have cost me £258.35 rather than £560. So it's just better than 50% cheaper to run on home electric. Much less so if you are using the shitty charger network out there in the wild.

In the first 2-3 weeks I tried using the charger network to see what it's like for someone like me who does decent mileage. Shit was my conclusion. Trying to find the bloody things sometimes is hard, then finding ones that area both available and functional nevermind the cost of some of them per kWh.

The hybrid works really well for me until such time as the charger network improves because I could not get enough power into a car quickly enough or conveniently enough to make a full electric work for me. I'd miss loads of meetings and probably have a stress induce heart attack

Can you tell me how much the BiK works out at, per month? May be getting a new job with a company that runs a scheme, though unsure if it's from day 1 or if you have to get a year under your belt etc. Never had a co car before. Running club buddy just got his e-tron GT so was flexing vs. our Leaf the other night. Leaf due to go back in Feb so got to get my ducks in a row.

[McSwede]

I mentioned approx 800 miles I'd paid for as there's been 3-4 hours of free charging plus some where I have filled the battery using the engine on long runs to see what effect it has on economy. My cost is based upon 17p/kWh at home and the BMW app shows me my usage and cost.

I'll dig out fuel costs shortly.

The 2836 miles I have done have been on £500 of unleaded. Based on an average of £6.45 a gallon it works out at 36.6mpg just running on petrol.

It's amazing how much of a difference the electricity makes to the overall running costs.

If I'd done all my mileage on my home electric it'd have cost me £258.35 rather than £560. So it's just better than 50% cheaper to run on home electric. Much less so if you are using the shitty charger network out there in the wild.

In the first 2-3 weeks I tried using the charger network to see what it's like for someone like me who does decent mileage. Shit was my conclusion. Trying to find the bloody things sometimes is hard, then finding ones that area both available and functional nevermind the cost of some of them per kWh.

The hybrid works really well for me until such time as the charger network improves because I could not get enough power into a car quickly enough or conveniently enough to make a full electric work for me. I'd miss loads of meetings and probably have a stress induce heart attack

Can you tell me how much the BiK works out at, per month? May be getting a new job with a company that runs a scheme, though unsure if it's from day 1 or if you have to get a year under your belt etc. Never had a co car before. Running club buddy just got his e-tron GT so was flexing vs. our Leaf the other night. Leaf due to go back in Feb so got to get my ducks in a row.

My BiK is nice now having dropped for £500 per month for the M140i to £164.45 for my 330e. Also see image below for details. It's also freed up £7k on my tax free allowance and taxable value of the benefit of the M140i was £15k.

My only upgrade options were metallic paint and lumbar support.

[Explosive Newt]

Fictional car update -
My Discovery Sport that didn’t come in September still has no delivery date, but it will be a ‘23 model year so we can assume it won’t be here before July/August.
The dealer sent a ‘good news’ email to me yesterday, to tell me that the specification will be increasing.
This also includes dark rear tints, which I don’t want as my daughter feels car sick with them.
The good news also includes a price increase as a reward for waiting a year longer than the quoted delivery date!

If they can’t get it without the tints and honour the price we’ll stick with the current one. It does everything we need and runs better every day since ticking over 30k miles.

A mate ordered a Range Rover Evoque back in September with a planned delivery in Jan which has now been put back to March. They don’t seem to be doing well.

[McSwede]

E90 320d question. How many break pad wear sensors on each axle?

[nuttinnew]

One touch indicators.

https://www.cum-cartec-shop.de/BMW-3er- ... inker.html

Based on the url, were you actually searching for something else?

I found out about the company through a German forum (does that make it worse?); "Try this company. No, really." They do retrofit cruise control kits, heated seat looms, etc etc etc, handy stuff for retrofitting factory options.

[tim]

Got the 45 back from the garage. They've changed the fuel filter, and have surmised it had probably picked up some crap from the tank that was restricting the flow. Ignition system is all checked out ok, so was most likel fuel starvation.

They recommend I run it on Super because E5/E10 bollocks, but fuck that, it's not going to run any different far as I can see.