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Old 01-31-2005, 01:54 PM
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In my case, throttle delay is still there after 1600 miles driving mix city and highway. It's got to be CIP 13.2 which was blamed for throttle delay problem in some other threads.
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welcome aboard, mike !
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Originally Posted by JiMmY912' date='Jan 31 2005, 12:53 AM
mines decreased~~ i used 2 get over 20mpg but now im gettng 14~16mpg.... :'(
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You're noticing the same thing. An increase in L/100km is the same as a decrease in mpg. A decrease of 4 mpg from 20 would be the same 25% I am seeing.

Originally Posted by Iceman' date='Jan 31 2005, 10:29 AM
When you get a software update, the drivers settings are deleted. The car needs to adopt your driving style again. Shiftpoints etc... they are all gone. So, for a week or so, your mpg can increase, but then goes back to normal. Happened on mine too.
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It might be because of driving style but in the city, my car was always 12-13 L/100km from the day I first drove it so 16.6 seems to be a fairly significant change.

Figures the calibration is off because it doesn't seem to be burning fuel any faster and it doesn't really make sense that to get lower emissions, they made the car burn more fuel. I might try to play around with the calibration but what to calibrate to???
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Got mine back the other week to check tire noise a stalling and after a 2 weeks or driving the ave consumption dropped from 19.5mpg (been same for 5000miles) to 16.5mpg !!

Will need to do an "actual" measurement next time I fill up.

FYI, was in yesterday and BMW auth tires to be replaced.. YESSS, FINALLY

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The same thing happened to me, BUT, it finally made mine correct. For months, my computer was telling me I was getting 25 mpg, but I was really only getting 19. Since getting switched to version 15, the computer is very accurate and is reading about 19 mpg. For me, there was a new feature in version 15 that pertained to the mileage. In the idrive settings, I now have the choice between 2 different types of miles (I don't recall exactly, but I think it was British and American miles). Since switching over to American miles, my computer has read correctly. Hope this helps.
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British and American miles? Theres no difference. You can set up for km or miles and maybe Imperial (4.54L) or US (3.78L) gallons. Maybe Swedish cars have Swedish miles (10 km)???
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The trip computer now says I get around 24mpg (It was 26mpg before the update)
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I just filled mine up today and calculated it manually right after for the first time in years.
In Germany we have L/Km, and the difference between the computer and my calculation was only .2 L/Km. So I guess mine is working pretty good, huh? Amazing. Now I know I have to change my drivign style...
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I noticed a significant drop in fuel mileage...from 34 mpg to ~25 mpg after taking my vehicle in for the Emissisons recall.
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