AdidasC230

You just think of what a fool you where for lying about it, and then go and clean and love your C230 and think that it could be worse and you could have an automatic or a C240! No I kid I like the C240 to!

Ok so it took me a while to come around but yes, I was suffering from a serial amount of 230itus. I just get so upset when people kinda judge the choices I make ect. I am a out gay guy it took me till 21 to actually accept it and in high school things where ****ty, blah blah blah, defense mechanism, so sorry, It was silly.

So anyways, car needed love. I pulled the pinstripe off the car the 3rd or 4th day I had it, but of course it was painted on and I had to use lacquer thinner and my finger nails (also a dish sponge) Well it had and still has light swirls from where it came off and I was examining the car and noticed I missed the over spray on my windows (I clay barred the whole car on like day 2 of ownership) So yesterday I clay-barred the windows of the car, all of them, yes with clay and it worked very well, I also cleaned the windows after with window cleaner, and they came out great. FML lines of scratches still in the tint still making the windows not perfect.

I also waxed the car (fading still shows through, but Its not as bad with wax on it) and of course tire shine and photo shoot since I was bored, I went out this morning and cleaned off all the M Fing pollen off the car. So here are pics

Also PS any idea on how much replacing the grey carpet with black carpet would be, the last owner of my car was a coffee spilling **** waffle and pretty much ruined the carpet (I have cleaned it many times but it doesn't come all the way out) or any one know really good cleaner for the "velour" carpet?

Also to all the cali people, I hope your cars didn't get hurt by the earth quake!

AdidasC230

How it looked with pin stripe...

bdgdl08

Hey man, I'm glad you got around to this. I didn't (and don't) want to bad mouth you, and I'm glad you've stuck around and we can now get past this. Some great pictures ^^^ white always makes me jealous (and the manual thing). Maybe I can get down that way and we can detail my car and have a photo shoot... or an actual meet.

nrg_mike

Hey Adidas, it's good to see that you've come around. It's ok to have a little envy, we all do of nicer models. Anyway, your car is still very clean and your knowledge and willingness to share it is still greatly appreciated (at least by me).
It's also good to see that you got the cone marks off the front. Something like that would have killed me (I always resorted to AutoX without a bumper or covered in blue tape). As for the tint, I totally feel your pain. My car has the scratches too and I've gotta redo the tint. It's ok though. It can be changed quickly and easily.

As for carpet, I looked and found nothing but "call for price". Why not try your luck at a junker?

Oh and that quake was pretty intense. We're in earthquake country and all but holy crap, people are still standing in doorways as far as Arizona. LOL.

And agreed, FL needs a meet!

W203E35

Great pics!!! Mole Skin baby..Mole Skin

The quake wasn't bad. I experience the Northridge one in 1994 and that was much worse than this one.

nrg_mike

Well Adidas, I got bored and figured I'd play with one of your photos. After running it through a few filters, breaking it into layers and composing it, I got this. Enjoy.

BLT

Great pics!

TruTaing

Looks like an 05 to me? m271?

tommy

One idea that you might give some consideration to is to either dye or paint the carpet in the color you like.

I did that to my CRX's carpet this past week (hard to find charcoal carpeting these days, but easy to get the awful blue instead), and installed it yesterday. Before anyone says, "But this is a Mercedes - heresy!!", the carpet didn't feel any stiffer than before and the color soaked in well (I used fabric/vinyl paint that I bought at Autozone - think it's Rustoleum). It's something to think about, and a hell of a lot cheaper than getting a new one.

AdidasC230

Thanks for the comments guys, and NRG Mike that looks awesome, may I ask how you do that in PS, I am pretty amateur with it (CS4 I can do minor retouch and dodge and burn but thats about it), but would love to do that to one of the horizontal pics and make it my desktop! Carpet die may not be a bad idea tommy, Ill look into that! Thanks

benzo23

adidas, great pics...very very clean looking...are u on stock ride height?

johnand

Props to you for admitting your mistake and coming back from it with a good attitude. Car looks great, and that is some nice camera work as well.

bdgdl08

It's an '06... they look identical anyway.

RobM23

U got a beautiful machine sir

03MBC320

gorgeous car and props for admitting the fault, i love the topic title lol

nlpamg

great pics. glad that you came clean and admitted it. takes a lot of courage to do that. good for you

nrg_mike

Adidas, I did another one for you. This time it was horizontal. Heheh.
Basically, I ran it through an IR filter to make it monotone. Then I ran a color IR filter on specific parts of the photo and created those in layers (6 layers total) on top of the first monotone section. Then a little eraser tool to clean up the excess.
It really helps to have plugins installed. Try looking into the NIK plug-in set (http://www.niksoftware.com/completec...usa/entry.php?) if you're running CS3/4. I use CS3 on my PC and CS4 on my Macbook Pro.

C280 Sport

I am lost here can someone explaine to me what is going on ???

Song

Beautiful! makes me want to go doing a spring cleaning now

OneOfaKindTrini

Man addidas this is what I call loving your Benz bro. You definately have a really clean w203.