View Poll Results: Does your Benz have its badges on or off?
Kept 'em on. I want to show others what I got!
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26.47%
Nahh, Let them try to race and findout.
19
55.88%
Too lazy, or honestly don't care.
6
17.65%
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POLL - Badge or Badgeless?
POLL - Badge or Badgeless?
But hey, a C240 (2.6L) is an amazing first car at the age of 15 
06-25-2010, 03:29 PM
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06-25-2010, 03:35 PM
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Lmao, It's not my fault I ended up with a 240, it just happened. Plus, I don't need tickets or trouble, I'm just happy I have a Benz at this age.
06-25-2010, 03:38 PM
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06-25-2010, 03:41 PM
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Don't worry every one with a c240 gets bashed a little at first lol Don't worry you can get tickets in a c240 just as easy as c320 w203's like to go fast on the highway my car makes me drive it 10+ mph no matter what lol 4 years and around 100k miles and zero tickets somehow. 
OK thought you lived in Maryland for some reason yeah you guys out west somewhere are lucky.
06-25-2010, 04:05 PM
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c240 is slow. how many miles are on it because it should shift really nice unless you are driving crazy. And tiptronic is not fast you learn to drive with it though you just shift early. You could try to reset the tcu and see if that fixes the shifting bad.
06-25-2010, 04:08 PM
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97k miles? When it shifts its like pushing the gas and slowly puting the clutch in, like how a ameture would drive stickshift. I learned how to use the tiptronic (going early and everything) but I wasn't sure if that was normal.. and how do you reset the tcu? are there any cons to doing it?
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06-25-2010, 11:20 PM
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I've always wondered about the thinking or mentality behind owners "debadging" their cars. In my mind, there are only 1 of 2 reasons.
1) The owner genuinely thinks that debadging their car makes it look better or "cleaner". In Europe, this actually seems to be a relatively common option that dealers offer for customers.
2) The owner does not want others to know the exact type of vehicle he/she has. There are 2 common, but different reasons for this.
2a) The first one is that the owner has a lower end or less performance oriented model, and he/she is not proud of letting the whole world know. This could be combined with externally modifying the car to make others think the car is "more" than the average low end model.
2b) The second scenario is that the owner has a higher end performance model, but does not want to advertise this to the world out of humility or fear of being targeted for vandalism, or he/she wants to deliberately deceive people into thinking it is an "average" model for various other reasons (like wanting to trick people into races and then "blowing them away").
With regards to the W203 C-class, my guess is that there probably is a significant proportion of owners who debage their C230's, C240's at least in part because of reason 2a, although they will only admit that it is for reason 1.
Finally, I do find that the C240 really gets hammered a lot by people here. And what I really find a bit odd is that a lot of C230 owners do the hammering, as if they think the C230 is SO MUCH better mechanically than the C240, which I certainly don't agree with.
As some of you may know, I used to be a C240 owner. It was my first benz and it was what I could afford back then, and I loved it for what it was......quiet, comfortable, ultra smooth car. And yes, I kept all my badges on it too.
1) The owner genuinely thinks that debadging their car makes it look better or "cleaner". In Europe, this actually seems to be a relatively common option that dealers offer for customers.
2) The owner does not want others to know the exact type of vehicle he/she has. There are 2 common, but different reasons for this.
2a) The first one is that the owner has a lower end or less performance oriented model, and he/she is not proud of letting the whole world know. This could be combined with externally modifying the car to make others think the car is "more" than the average low end model.
2b) The second scenario is that the owner has a higher end performance model, but does not want to advertise this to the world out of humility or fear of being targeted for vandalism, or he/she wants to deliberately deceive people into thinking it is an "average" model for various other reasons (like wanting to trick people into races and then "blowing them away").
With regards to the W203 C-class, my guess is that there probably is a significant proportion of owners who debage their C230's, C240's at least in part because of reason 2a, although they will only admit that it is for reason 1.
Finally, I do find that the C240 really gets hammered a lot by people here. And what I really find a bit odd is that a lot of C230 owners do the hammering, as if they think the C230 is SO MUCH better mechanically than the C240, which I certainly don't agree with.
As some of you may know, I used to be a C240 owner. It was my first benz and it was what I could afford back then, and I loved it for what it was......quiet, comfortable, ultra smooth car. And yes, I kept all my badges on it too.
