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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vroom325" data-source="post: 600354" data-attributes="member: 17621">Orion, your distance sounds pretty much like me, from Kota Kemuning or Bukit Rimau area, I guess?I am not sure what time you leave and come home, but I know Jln Sultan Ismail is a headache area, then kesas proton area, also the kesas & MEX joining part.Anyway, I only trust my own calculation.  Meaning that every refuel, I divide the total km by the actual litre pumped.  I get around 9km/litre, old habit.  Surprisingly, I find my the reading on our car computer tally with this.  So, I would say the car computer is sort of accurate.Your 452km/50.9l=8.9km/l, is about 11.2l/100km, which is similar to my 325 M sport.  You must be either heavy foot or always get caught in traffic.(FYI, I always tekan when I leave toll booth.  The rest can only crusie when I go to work, but there's chance, I cruise with higher speed)  My experience is that if you don't reset your computer after every refuel, it will turn out to be a more accurate number.  At least for my case, so I don't reset it now and I find them tally with my own calculation like I explained earlier.You may wanna find out why or it's not fully run in yet?  3weeks with you and say you commute every day plus weekend drive, you should have 1500km on the odometer now?  Not fully run in yet, I think.  if your car is not brand new, is the maintenance carried out properly?  tyre pressure?  I had a chance to drive a 320i for a non m sport before for about 1 week, the FC is surprisingly better then my Mazda6 2.0!  Clocking about 11-12km/litre, if I remember correctly.  I can tell you this 320i has a very sweet handling in corners!However, like bro Astroboy said, enjoy your car.  No one says BMW is built for best FC, unless it's the 320D. Take it easy!  Life is too short!</blockquote>

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