Any 530e owners out there?

Best of luck with it, sounds like nice car. I'm sure you'll spend the first while messing around with modes and settings then settle on just letting the car figure out the most efficient mode for you. Just charge at home, don't go looking for public chargers for a phev, not worth the effort as it won't charge fast anyway. I've had 330e and 530e out for test drives, almost bought a 181 msport 530e early this year but stalled on it due to trying to offload my audi a6 and it was sold, was only just over 30k at the time but I know they've gone up a fair bit since then.

I don't have one yet so I don't know but I don't believe anyone can plug them out only you. What I was saying is there's only a small battery on phev relative to ev so I wouldn't be bothered going to public chargers because you'll probably want to be charging every day so just plug in at home. I don't think the 530e can charge fast anyway so don't bother giving it to your OH to charge at work, shed only be depleting battery on way home anyway. It will charge at more or less same speed no matter what you plug into.

But really nice car, it's a 5 series with the added bonus of electric power for short trips to keep cost down on fuel and considering one myself pretty soon. Just don't want to buy one at todays high prices only for market to come back to normal, bit I don't think it will for a while yet.

I spend 90% of the time in Comfort and Auto eDrive, but I do a lot of city driving.

If I am on a motorway and my battery is low I may switch into Battery Control mode to charge it, although with an mpg cost.

As for Eco Pro I don't use it and would only do so if the battery is empty and the tank is near empty also.

I may be wrong but:

Battery Control - uses all available excess power from the engine to re-charge the battery.

Auto eDrive - lets the computer determine when to apply re-charging to the battery.

Eco Pro - won't charge the battery to keep mpg high.

To be clear, the above are engine settings. Re-gen braking is aways on regardless of which mode you are in.

In ECO Pro Mode, on the F30 330e at least, the coasting regen is minimised so that you coast for longer.

If you know you're almost home, it's marginally beneficial to fuel economy, since otherwise you'd just be charging the battery up to 25% in a less cost efficient way than plugging it in would be. ie: via speed loss or petrol usage. The car will always try to maintain around 25% or so in case you hit an urban area.

I have an energy monitor on my granny cable, and it shows 100% charge taking only around 3.3kWh. This tallies closely with the OBC when I multiply out the kWh/100km by the achieved range.

It should be up around 5.7kWh, so it looks to be only around 60% of new capacity. On the other hand, the car has 150k km, so some range loss is expected. Has anyone seen similar results, or am I the outlier? It certainly puts me off buying a second hand EV.

Don't forget Vat and duty, what caught my eye was the type 1 socket on the car.

Is it msport? Big difference between msport and SE prices

I almost bought a 2018 msport from a dealer at start of 2021, had about 80k kms on it and it would have cost me 31k. Nice spec on it, sun roof and a few extras.

Prices have gone up since and you'd be doing well to get similar out of a dealer for under 35k. Do see the odd one up for less though.

I think you'll have to take a big jump down selling privately. High 20s I'd say, 28/29k, thats if its msport. SE knock 4 to 5k off that, even at that the pool of willing buyers will be shallow will zero comeback etc.....

It's all about price and if you could arrange extended bmw warranty, you would be on a winner.

Bmw appear greedy on trade in offers. 10k margin between buy and sell at 35 to 40k price range seems to be normal with them.

I'd therefore imagine if you have a car that's worth 37k on a main dealer forecourt, they will be offering 27 or 28 for it.

Private sale at anything over 30k would be a big gain as you can now go anywhere for a straight deal on new car.

Car dealers no longer sell cars, they sell finance!

They are more interested in recurring payments than once off cash sales. The former allows them to project future income better and there is also a better than fair chance of repeat business from trading up (e.g. PCP).

So the days of the cash buyer being in a stronger negotiating position are maybe a thing of the past, in recent and current market conditions anyway.

Yeah I agree, being able to buy without having a trade-in really does give more options, especially on a used car. I assumed most 530e owners selling/trading would be looking at another brand spanking new car.

I wonder if dealers will start providing a free jar of vaseline with every purchase soon 😂.

New, yes, but I imported it. She's going soon & I have to say with 47k kms on it, it's been one of the best all around cars I've ever owned.

It's averaged 4.5l/100km over the last 2 years (63mpg or 53/54mpg if counting the electricity too). The original front tyres are still on it & have plenty of life left on them. The rears need to be changed now though. The service pack was very reasonable at €450 so the new owner will have the BMW factory warranty until March 2022 & all servicing covered until March 2024 or the next 53k km, whichever arrives first. I'd be suggesting the extended warranty but if it goes through the BMW dealer network, they'll be adding their 2 year warranty & charging accordingly.

I had it down in Switzerland & at vmax on the German autobahns, once or twice.

It's been comfortable, economical & trouble free.

Mine was indicating 34ish kms on a full charge in the summer with a 2018 530e. Now is more 28ish kms as the weather has changed.

There are a couple of posts previous in this thread about this. I suggested it may be indicating what kms I will get based on my recent usage (i.e. using air con, heated seats, steer wheel more now under electric power), and that it is not a reflection on deterioration in the overall battery capabiity/lifespan.

Others advised it has got to do with the temp of the battery itself, either under charge on start up where it is colder initially.

Agree it won't come to a stop. Knocking down the cruise control to slow down (30kph as low as you can go) generates more opposing force than either Sport or Comfort if just lifting off. Would there more regen going on a result?

If it's plugged in, yes. It'll heat up the cabin & as a result, defrost/demist too. You'll be setting off in a pre-warmed car from the mains electricity & not need to pull that power from the high voltage battery in the 530e.

Pre-heating doesn't do anything for the high voltage battery - it has no means of heating itself.

On the pre-condition subject, in my experience pre heating or cooling does impact the battery range. It seems (to me) the climatisation uses the charge quicker quicker than the mains can replace it.

On another note: Had mine in for it's first NCT last week.

It passed but all the values for engine emissions were zero. Brakes and suspension and lights were all tested but not the engine.

It was fully charged going in so the engine wouldn't have come on by default, but I thought these days they controlled low/high idle test etc. via the OBD.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Over the last 10km, you averaged 83mpg. Your 7th, 8th & 9th kms are blue, ran on battery energy & then obviously exceeded the graph's limit (90mpg).

You ran initially, for the first 3kms, at 45mpg approx. (ePower). It then likely went into charge mode & charged up the battery, doubling your consumption, so dropping your mpg into the low 20s (charge mode). Then you deployed the battery & it ran in battery mode.

Another possible scenario would be you drove spiritedly, or at speed on a motorway, for the middle kms, 3 to 6.

You've also driven 123.3kms since that was reset/zeroed.