BMW 330D LCI SE Touring '59

[Deako]

Im just pootling around. 

I could understand if i was actually driving it like a hot hatch. 

Official figures for my car are similar to your 330d quoted figures. But not many seem to get anywhere near them. 

I read that some people complain of clutch judder in the 1 series, and that there is a revised clutch assembly for everything from the 116d up to the 120d, however, due to the 123d using the 330d gearbox there was not one available.

I did not buy the car purely for economy  , if I did that I would have bought a 318D, I wanted a car that was quick AND economical along with more room for my sporting gear (had 3 sets of Golf clubs in it this week without seats down).

The car does exactly what I needed and I am happy with it.

Yes, same here. But i was surprised the motorway economy wasnt as good as i thought.

[Tamiyoman]

Will see what it does next week on the 950 mile jaunt, was speaking to a guy on the phone yesterday who went to to Alps in his car with his family (wife and 3 kids) he had a 2010 60 plate 330D M Sport Touring and he said with all the luggage and 5 sets of skis in his roof box he still averaged 41mpg at mostly 80-85mph (indicated) autoroute speeds  

Would be nice to get near that with 4 lads + luggage and 4 snowboards on the rooofrack  

Your 123D should be doing quite a bit more on mpg than my 330D, just looked up a 10 plate 123D and economy shows 45mpg urban, 55mpg combined and 64 extra urban?

[Deako]

Yep, but they don't get anywhere near that. Loads of threads about the sh*t consumption on all the 1ers on the babybmw forum. Lucky to get anywhere near those figures with a 116d. :)

Would be awesome to get 41mpg with that much luggage and a roof rack though.

[Veee-dubber]

A 330d has the best of both worlds for me... A 3.0 engine with some serious grunt and good fuel economy

38mpg is good as far as I'm concerned! 

[Tamiyoman]

A 330d has the best of both worlds for me... A 3.0 engine with some serious grunt and good fuel economy

38mpg is good as far as I'm concerned!  

Mee too, im sure it will be in the early to mid 40's on a run, done 150 miles on trip now and says 436 miles now as I was pootling about from town to town picking up some stuff and arranging some new tyres for the rear for just prior to my trip.

Cheapest price I found for Michelin Primacy ZP Runflats 255/40/17 94W/Y) from Blackcircles and tyreshopper (Fitted prices) were £206 each, found a local place and arranged a deal at £195 fitted per tyre (Same Tyres) including Nitrogen filling 

[andrewparker]

Enough of this chit chat about MPG, you can't have a member's ride thread without photos, so come on, get to it! 

[Tamiyoman]

Will get a few pics next week when I have some spare time and inclination to upload them to photobox 

[lm_gauci]

I loved nearly everything about my 320d tourer. Build quality was brilliant and the mpg was good just wish i had the extra cash for an LCI 330d, nice choice 

[Tamiyoman]

Well after covering 1017 miles in the last 4 days (Cornwall to Norfolk to Manchester to Cornwall) I can confirm the following of the 330D LCI Touring

It eats the miles and is very comfy (Only a stiff right knee after 7 hours driving), although the Bridgestone RFT tyres are quite noisy (The rears are being replaced with Michelin Primacy HP ZP in 4 weeks time Which are 4DB quieter).

Its big enough to carry me and my best mates Family around (3 adults, 2 kids, although the tallest of the 4 of them is 5'7"  ).

Its pretty quick accelerating from 50-80 in 6th.

It averaged 44.7mpg (70% Motorways 30% A roads) and covered 559.7 miles before "0" range indicated, and on way back it averaged 41.6mpg (95% motorway and 5% A roads) Roofrack on with 2 snowboards, covered 512 miles with 47 miles range left (indicated), 1000 miles and nearly 2 tankfulls, well happy with that  

The roofrack (Thule Square Bars) and snowboard holder (Thule Xtender 739 with 2 snowboards attached) was not overly noisy although did notice the car developed an annoying whistle at motorway speeds (Think its from one of the front wipers?, it was noticed without roofrack) and only dropped economy by 3mpg. Cruising at a Sat Nav indicated 75mph (empty car no roofrack) gave economy of 47.8mpg.

Keep the traction control switched on especcially on wet roads as its very tail happy with all the torque  

The Ipod lead (Iphone) was a godsend for some decent music for the 17 hours spent in the car (until one of my mates kids insisted on putting One Direction on using her mums Iphone)  NEVER AGAIN!

Saw 3 Edition 30's on my travels (1 Red 56 plate, 1 Black 57 plate and 1 Silver 07 plate) Saw 1 Pirelli (58 plate) Silver and a Golf R (Blue).

Prety sure it will cover the 2000 miles round trip to Austria with 4 onboard (and 4 Snowboards on roofrack) very easily and still get approx 40mpg, we did a test fit of luggage bags in the boot and 2 big hard bags and 2 medium sized soft bags fitted easily with load cover in place, only 4 boot bags and 4 small rucksacks to add to that so will have some room left to pick up some supplies in Calais (Beer Vodka Food), can put luggage net up and stack to roof, as long as I have a 12" gap in midddle to see behind me its no issue  

[Tamiyoman]

Just test fitting the roofbox for the trip to Austria in 3 weeks, picked up the roofbox this morning to allow us some room in the boot which we can fill with beer and wine on return trip  

Thule Atlantis 780 (480 Litre capacity), 196cm x 78cm x 44cm should swallow 4 Snowboards, 4 Pairs of boots and a couple of travel bags easily enough