Official C-Class Picture Thread
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From: Camas, WA
2007 C230SS; 2014 ML350 BT
The Meg's 105/205 combo is teh new hotness and it works incredible (even with a PC!). My car was bad when I got it and since it sat on the lot for 2 months there were some real nice rain spots I couldn't get off. Got 85% of it corrected, I was amazed. Just used 105 on a orange pad using the KB method (I think that's what its called, basically high speed with extra pressure). Then followed that with 205 on a polishing pad and Clearkote Vanilla Moose. Here's what it looked like right after I was done (this is the only handy picture right now):
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thanks man!
it's a loooong process, lol.
here's the short:
washed with Adam's Carwash, clay bar using Meguiar's clay, polish using a d/a polisher and Meguiar's Speed Glaze and then 2 coats of Meguiar's NXT 2.0 Wax.
then, wait a week (in which it got rained on), wash again using Meguiar's Ultimate Wash and Wax and then finish off using Optimum Spray Wax.
here's another pic that shows the shine:
it's a loooong process, lol.
here's the short:
washed with Adam's Carwash, clay bar using Meguiar's clay, polish using a d/a polisher and Meguiar's Speed Glaze and then 2 coats of Meguiar's NXT 2.0 Wax.
then, wait a week (in which it got rained on), wash again using Meguiar's Ultimate Wash and Wax and then finish off using Optimum Spray Wax.
here's another pic that shows the shine:
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haha, thanks for the recommendation John! Optimum No-rinse looks great, but I'm still kinda worried about using that, I guess I'm more of a traditionalist when it comes to that...
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I was VERY hesitant on using it too. I had some for almost a year before I first used it. Check out the Autopia Forum and the praises for No-rinse are staggering. What pushed me over the edge was the winter here in the NW. It got to the point that my car was so dirty and the weather was so crappy, I figured using No-Rinse to keep it clean outweighed just not washing it period. Once I used it a few times, I was sold. I rarely wash conventionally now.
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'06 C280 4MATIC
New Mods
Hey, had my C280 3 years, just starting to mod, new to mbworld...
So far-
1-Star Grille and hood cap
2-Chrome headlight trim (I found already that people on here are saying they don't like it
3-Clear side markers
4-Carbon fiber mirror covers
5-Window vent visors
6-LED Tail lights/S class style I believe design
7-Chrome tail light rings (see 2)
8-Cheap rear spoiler
Awaiting roof spoiler, planning on real trunk spoiler. Any idea's or suggestions are welcome, thanks!
For tail light pics see: https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...ml#post4103300
So far-
1-Star Grille and hood cap
2-Chrome headlight trim (I found already that people on here are saying they don't like it
3-Clear side markers
4-Carbon fiber mirror covers
5-Window vent visors
6-LED Tail lights/S class style I believe design
7-Chrome tail light rings (see 2)
8-Cheap rear spoiler
Awaiting roof spoiler, planning on real trunk spoiler. Any idea's or suggestions are welcome, thanks!
For tail light pics see: https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...ml#post4103300
Last edited by JonC280; Jun 3, 2010 at 09:24 PM. Reason: to remove pics
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Damn nlpamg, it looks like an angel omitting its own light. I wish my car could look like that. Nice job, makes me wanna spend my whole weekend trying to get mine looking like that.
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all for being ghetto fab. lol but electrical tape is going to be a ***** to take off cause of the gooey residue. especially if you let it sit out in the sun for awhile.
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06 C230 6 Speed FTW
Just put the tape on each row and then cut with a razor blade. Still holding up. I don't drive it that often so works for now till I buy one.
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2019 G70 6MT & 2022 Ford Maverick XL
This is the car when I purchased it. 25,000 miles.
This is at about 65,000 miles. It's aging very gracefully. No recent pics, but it looks the same at 83,200 miles. I love it.
And for giggles:
This was 2007. My 2007 Civic Si Sedan/Nav on the right (traded for the C230 on 7/19/2008). My (now ex)boyfriend's Japan-built 1998 Camry, which still stands as probably the best car I've ever known. We loved the Camry far more than the Si, far more, in fact, than I can muster for even the Benz. I was pleased to learn a few months ago that it was retired into indefinite storage (never to be sold) after 200,000+ miles without a failure of any component, electrical or mechanical, big or small. It was the very definition of reliability and will probably forever be the stick by which all my cars are measured. I also am pretty sure I miss that old Camry more than I miss its owner.
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'09 GL320-wife '11E350-me
This is my 2nd MB (sold '01 SLK). Recently new to the forum. I hang out mainly in the GL and E (W212) forums.
2005 C320 luxury 86,000 miles. No major problems, yet.
On to the iPhone pix.
2005 C320 luxury 86,000 miles. No major problems, yet.
On to the iPhone pix.
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