3.0d owners.... fuel economy.

[Le Mans]

I put £20 a time in my 3.0d and I get 120 odd miles that's just round town driving, dropping the kids at school, shopping, short trips etc... I don't know how to set my fuel computer up but I think that's pretty good considering it's such a big car!

[X5Sport]

It is permanently engaged and designed to be that way.  You would have to pull the power off but that defeats the object and you lose AWD operational torque shifting.

[PioneerSSM]

I had the head off last year for a broken glow plug.
Since then I'm averaging 34 mpg on a tank. And that's driving it like it's meant to be[emoji12]
Obviously the head skimmed and ports cleaned have improved performance.


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[PioneerSSM]

[quote="mr angry"]
My car has 197,000 miles showing and I get 27 mpg which is mostly town driving.  I went on a long run recently, mostly motorway and after resetting trip was showing just over 40 mpg.
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197k wow that's impressive. I'm coming up to 64k on my 2nd year with my 60 plate.
Have you had any major repairs during your ownership?


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[mr angry]

To be honest I have only just had it over a year but having a good crawl over it the only major thing that appears to have been recently replaced is the turbocharger.  I have only serviced it and replaced some rear suspension linkages as the rear camber was way off and rear dampers which were leaking.