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      09-01-2013, 06:30 PM   #111
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I think you will find that it is great on the hwy and not so great in the city. Had mine a year and its at 21.5 overall but I'm less than 20 lately in mostly city. Hwy trips have been 29-31 at 75-85 like you got.
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      09-01-2013, 08:57 PM   #112
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I think you will find that it is great on the hwy and not so great in the city. Had mine a year and its at 21.5 overall but I'm less than 20 lately in mostly city. Hwy trips have been 29-31 at 75-85 like you got.
Getting better city mileage on a 35i here. Probably lighter traffic than where you live though - no real stop-and-go, just traffic lights and Honda drivers killing my average speed.

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      09-01-2013, 09:38 PM   #113
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Getting better city mileage on a 35i here. Probably lighter traffic than where you live though - no real stop-and-go, just traffic lights and Honda drivers killing my average speed.

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What part of CT? I used to live in East Winsor and worked for Lego out of Enfield.
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      09-01-2013, 09:50 PM   #114
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What part of CT? I used to live in East Winsor and worked for Lego out of Enfield.
Mostly route 10, on the other side of the river. If it wasn't for all the traffic lights, I'd classify it as extraurban, but drivers here don't know what "yield" means, so there are either stop signs or lights every few hundred yards. At least the drive is pretty, with the fall colors coming
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      09-01-2013, 09:55 PM   #115
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Had a 15.4 mpg tank last fill up. But it's been 100+ here. Normal has been about 17.5 on a short commute with nothing over 45 mph.
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      09-01-2013, 10:15 PM   #116
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Had a 15.4 mpg tank last fill up. But it's been 100+ here. Normal has been about 17.5 on a short commute with nothing over 45 mph.
I've been to Dallas once. A meeting in Plano, and the company I visited told me straight out to not rent a car but go by taxi, because the traffic was so bad. And it was.
Granted, this was a few years ago, it might be better now.

Worst three big cities for traffic (personal, your mileage may vary):
1: Boston
2: Philadelphia
3: Dallas

Best three:
1: Seattle
2: Albuquerque
3: Las Vegas
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      09-01-2013, 10:25 PM   #117
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Yeah, I lived in Orange County and drove all over there and LA. Dallas is worse, and Austin is worse than here. There's a reason we both work 3 miles from home, which certainly doesn't help our gas mileage.

I love driving in Boston though, it's like Rome with insults I can understand.
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      09-01-2013, 10:41 PM   #118
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I love driving in Boston though, it's like Rome with insults I can understand.
LOL! I think the word "courteous" was invented to more accurately describe what Bostonian and Italian drivers aren't.

Unlike Seattle or Glasgow, where you get traffic jams because of two cars doing the "you first", "no, you first", "no, you first" dance. It assuredly won't happen in Boston.
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      09-07-2013, 10:28 AM   #119
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Only a little over 1200 miles on a 35i, but I see 25mpg hwy running 80-85mph. Not sure why your mileage so low.
I am getting about 21-22 mpg (mostly 80 mph highway) with the Dinan. I only have 1800 miles, but my first tank (pre Dinan), driving break in style, was 23mpg. So, I have lost "about" 2 mpg with the Dinan (definitely worth it!)

CIWS, are you getting that good a mileage WITH the Dinan?? Or was that before the upgrade?
Maybe its the altitude that I am getting less...

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      11-12-2014, 01:45 PM   #120
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19K miles update

The car seems to hover between 24.0-24.5 mpg. Right now the trip computer has 2K rural/hwy miles since last reset with 24.2 mpg - about normal for me. A far cry from EPA 36 on the window sticker.

It's hills that kill the heavy X1. The car really seems to suffer when going up any hill. Even in ECO-pro mode, it is impossible to keep the car from pegging below the 12mpg needle up hills. I mean the car drops to 20mph in a 40mph zone up the hill on my daily commute unless you give full gas. I tried a few times to try to keep the needle at 15mpg, and the car drops to 10mph dogging up the hill at a 'sick car' creep, causing traffic behind me in an unsafe and unroadworthy manner. Pitiful.

The car has been a major disappointment in the mileage area. Multiple dealer visits shows the car "is operating normally." I should have gotten the kick butt 3.5 instead if I had known mileage would be this Chevy Suburban poor on a car that eats fuel far above what its much smaller size would suggest. A far cry from my 55mpg TDI with the same driver and driving style and on the same daily roads. If anything I drive the X1 much slower in eco-mode than the TDI where I would jump off every red light for fun. Big sigh.
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      11-12-2014, 01:57 PM   #121
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Maybe you have the Xdrive, but I was driving through town @ 40 mph with light traffic and a few stop lights, and my scangauge showed 28 mpg average for a 5 mile drive home.

I don't use eco-mode or ASS.

My scangauge also shows about 5 psi boost while I accelerate at half throttle for a few seconds.

Most cars would get about 15 mpg under those situations.

BMW discussed a good driving method for best mileage 30 years ago.

Accelerate fast up to 2k rpm in each gear then, cruise.

Our diesel like torque at 1250 rpm makes that method easy.

I always beat everyone off line for about a block and get good mpg.
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      11-12-2014, 03:33 PM   #122
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The car seems to hover between 24.0-24.5 mpg. Right now the trip computer has 2K rural/hwy miles since last reset with 24.2 mpg - about normal for me. A far cry from EPA 36 on the window sticker.
Are you using the car’s MPG or calculated? The car’s BC has a correction factor which most probably is off. If you go to the hidden menu it’s under number 20. I created a spreadsheet to find the difference between the car’s MPG and the one calculated by me. The car’s correction factor was 1.144 and I calculated average 1.028 after five fill ups. This represents 2 MPG off, meaning the car is reporting 20 MPG while the calculated is 22. I'm going to change the correction factor (menus 20.01, 20.02 and 20.03) and keep tracking it to see if it's the correct one.
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      11-12-2014, 05:06 PM   #123
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xDrive 28i here, on my last tank I drove 425 miles and filled with 15.25 gallons (75% highway/25% city).

My overall average in 14000 miles based on computer is 25.0 mpg.

If you want to get high mileage drive at about 65 on highway. X1 has more drag than a sedan (more ground clearance and taller body) so the mileage drops once you go faster.

PS eco drive wont don much on highway. It should improve the mileage in stop and go traffic.
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      11-12-2014, 05:37 PM   #124
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If you want to get high mileage drive at about 65 on highway. X1 has more drag than a sedan (more ground clearance and taller body) so the mileage drops once you go faster.
Let’s make a comparison:
300 miles trip on the highway with 65 mph and 80 mph
65 mph, expected 30 mpg: Time of travel 300/65=4h 36’; Fuel used 300/30=10 gal
80 mph, expected 27 mpg: Time of travel 300/80=3h 45’; Fuel used 300/27=11.1 gal
The result is which one is more valuable to you 50 minutes or 1 gallon of gas.
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      11-13-2014, 08:00 AM   #125
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Are you using the car’s MPG or calculated? The car’s BC has a correction factor which most probably is off.
One of the few knocks against my particular TDI model was that it had zilch for onboard computer hardware, not even outside temp. So I had to do the tank-fill manual calculation every time for over that decade (nuts for an eco car). It feels like a luxury having that info on my X1 now.

So I am relying on the trip computer, mostly. I did try the correlation experiment early on with the X1, where it gave me even worse mpg than the trip computer.

But good point... I should try the experiment again at my next few fill ups.
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      11-13-2014, 06:07 PM   #126
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Let’s make a comparison:
300 miles trip on the highway with 65 mph and 80 mph
65 mph, expected 30 mpg: Time of travel 300/65=4h 36’; Fuel used 300/30=10 gal
80 mph, expected 27 mpg: Time of travel 300/80=3h 45’; Fuel used 300/27=11.1 gal
The result is which one is more valuable to you 50 minutes or 1 gallon of gas.
Yeah, you don't always drive 300 miles per day, then probably you will just go home and sit in front of the TV eating potato chips. Also you might get a ticket at 80 mph, you might as well crash and die, so there are a lot of variables. EPA test is calibrated for legal speeds so you shouldn't expect to get that mileage if you drive at 80 mph.
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      11-26-2014, 10:14 AM   #127
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2014 28i Xdrive Xline here. With Eco Pro turned on I could get to 28 mpg average on open highways, 24 mpg without. My daily average is 19.7 for the past 3 months. On a 328i Xdrive I could get 29+ mpg without the Eco pro easily, but using Eco pro on the 328i makes a smaller difference. My 2005 Subaru Forester 2.5XT, on Cobb stage 2, was averaging 14mpg city and 18mpg highway. The X1 is not easy on gas compared to the 328i Xdrive, and the actual mileage it gets is far below the 3 series from what was indicated on the paper. But I don't think it is that bad either. I hate to use Eco Pro unless I am on a long trip driving on the open highway. It makes the car less responsive to react to the sudden incidents that may happen in the city commute and busy highway traffic. I feel it simply increases the risk of driving and kills all the fun factors of a BMW. I feel the car stops slower under Eco Pro also, possibly due to a lower cruising RPM and reduced engine braking. The money it saves just does not justify all these sacrifices. If I care that much about gas mileage, I would be driving a Toyota Prius.
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      01-27-2015, 11:26 AM   #128
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Necropost here. Have to say that fuel economy is the biggest disappointment I have with the X1. It honestly doesn't do much better than my 15 year old SUV that is rated at 14/18. Apples to apples I get about 16.5 in the old SUV and 24ish in the X28i. Even when I'm 100% flat road at 65mph I can't hit 33 mpg and the best I ever really can sustain is 29 or so. I think the real world fuel economy should be considered 21/28 not 22/33.
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      01-27-2015, 01:01 PM   #129
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Necropost here. Have to say that fuel economy is the biggest disappointment I have with the X1. It honestly doesn't do much better than my 15 year old SUV that is rated at 14/18. Apples to apples I get about 16.5 in the old SUV and 24ish in the X28i. Even when I'm 100% flat road at 65mph I can't hit 33 mpg and the best I ever really can sustain is 29 or so. I think the real world fuel economy should be considered 21/28 not 22/33.
How many miles do you have on your X1? I get 24+ on the highway with my xDrive 28i. I typically do 75-77 mph. As your engine breaks in, the mileage will go up. Even with JB4 installed, I did better than 29mpg. If you have the factory oil in the car, that seemed to get me the best mileage by removing it at about 2400 km (2000mi) or so.
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      01-27-2015, 01:02 PM   #130
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Also you might get a ticket at 80 mph, you might as well crash and die, so there are a lot of variables. EPA test is calibrated for legal speeds so you shouldn't expect to get that mileage if you drive at 80 mph.
Idaho highway limits are 80 or even 85 I believe. I didn't die when I travelled at that speed. My mileage went into the toilet at 85 though, I think I went from 30+ to around 24.
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      01-28-2015, 01:10 PM   #131
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How many miles do you have on your X1? I get 24+ on the highway with my xDrive 28i. I typically do 75-77 mph. As your engine breaks in, the mileage will go up. Even with JB4 installed, I did better than 29mpg. If you have the factory oil in the car, that seemed to get me the best mileage by removing it at about 2400 km (2000mi) or so.
I just passed 12k miles and had the first service a few months ago. Maybe my car is an outlier but there seem to be a lot of people like me. I think 33 fwy is a fantasy unless you can drive a steady 55.

I should note I'm in California. Maybe our gas sucks. Currently winter blend so we can revisit in a few months.

Second note - I previously drove a Mercedes c250 rated at 31 mpg fwy that regularly hit 33-35mpg on the freeway. Apples to apples comparison - same commute.

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      01-31-2015, 04:36 PM   #132
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Winter driving get 25-26 mpg. Warmer weather usually get 29-30 same driving patterns. Must be the winter gas...and maybe the car just doesnt warm up as much.
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