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AdBlue intervals and costs on your 730/40d?
Had to top up my adBlue today and was wondering what other people are paying and getting for mileage out of a refill on the stuff?
I'm just over 34k miles on my 730d (16 reg) and am getting around 10k miles on a tank of adBlue. My local dealer is the easiest option for me as they charge £30 to fill up (regardless of amount of adBlue needed) which in my case is usually around 15.5l before the warning comes on (and 10k miles)... I have found adBlue at dealers in bottles or at Shell but they are all more than £2 / litre so this still makes the best sense for me (outside of ordering online which may be cheaper). What are you getting out of yours and how often do you need to fill the adBlue up? On a secondary note, the warnings for the adBlue are bloody annoying, every time you unlock the car and stop the car it warns you...(with a reserve of 1000 miles left to go it seems triggering it). I have read about being able to disable it in the manual but luckily just filled up quickly... *for those wondering what I'm on about: AdBlue is the additive to diesel engines to allow them to get lower emissions and meet Euro 6 standards, petrol engines need not apply!
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05-09-2018, 09:54 AM | #3 | |
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In any case, mine was below the £2 / litre including labour as it needed 15.5 l and I paid £30 total. (just would have been a drag if you only needed 5 l say as the price was a fixed price (or maybe all adBlue tanks indicate it needs topping up only when 15 litres are gone...) You at least have one benefit with yours regarding topping up...it rarely gets above 16 C here in the UK (last bank holiday weekend notwithstanding!) and so you are getting the full litre when you top up...have some sympathy for poor Arturo_Spain as IIRC you lose about 0.5 l over a full tank if you tank up in temperatures above 26 C (due to heat expansion and the pumps)....so you get yet another break with yours by living on the island! thanks for the comments, safe travels.
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Up to 20 C the amount of water that saturated air can 'hold' is relatively little, after that the absolute amount of water that warmer temperatures can hold goes up exponentially and hence why temperatures above 30 C can be quite uncomfortable with higher humidities (relative to that temperature as the name indicates)...A better single value to use is 'heat index' which is something similar to 'wind chill' but for warm temperatures. Well, that's my good deed for the day, now to go out for a drive and cut someone up to balance things out
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I do wish we had AC in our homes like the USA. A good air to air source heat pump I'm lead to believe is quite efficient, if you add in solar panels you'd be cutting the amount of grid electricity you need as well. The only catch is it doesn't heat hot water so any house I find with a heat pump in this country uses an air to water system. That means underfloor heating and radiators normally on the second floor plus hot water. Just those systems can only heat, they don't cool. Maybe one day I'll get a plot / house before it's built to be able to specify the system. But I figure something like the air to air source heat pump with ducting like in the US. Then solar panels for electricity with a battery for storage. Finally some solar water panels to heat the hot water and an immersion heater to cover gaps which can use your solar power where possible to minimise pull off the grid. Probably after all of that I might bring my carbon footprint to only about 600% more than everyone else with my V12, down from 1000% Also I'm only an IT Architect, not a house architect so probably some reason homes like this don't exist here I'm not seeing. Though maybe it's simply cost and most people don't see the need for AC in UK homes. However as our homes hold heat in better, I think it's becoming a bit more required to be honest. Especially when I'm working from home and have quite a bit in my office that generates heat. My portable AC struggles once it goes over about 25C. That's only a tiny bit evil, it's like decaf evil. You need to try harder |
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True enough, we have already moved it just a tiny bit which is somewhat responsible for the change to the UK weather we see more and more (less drizzle and more intense storms all year round)
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In any case, just came back from a trip to Hong Kong and that is a different league for heat / humidity (and it's not properly hot there yet either) and even the smallest dwellings / offices have AC as they do need it. Back on topic, I just go jump in the 7 when it gets that hot and turn on the atmosphere changer (AC)... Quote:
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Sounds like 10k miles is the range to expect then and I'll need to watch that as the service interval for mine over here is around every 18k IIRC...(at least on the 730d)... Safe travels, again, thanks for posting a response.
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