arxylis

Hello everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Josh and I purchased a 2005 C230 Kompressor last weekend. I traded my 2005 Evo VIII for it. Here's a couple pics of the old ride and my new one.

The Evo:








The Merc:







I've got some plans for it mod wise, but nothing to the extent of what I did to the Evo. So Far I've changed out the grille, put on a flat front badge, and smoked side markers.



Up next are Depo black housing projector headlights, tail light tint, and a few other odds and ends.

TTR

Welcome to the community!

Outkasted24

Welcome!

arxylis

Gave her a bath today, and took a few pics down by the river.

silvermamba

welcome =)

phister

Welcome enjoy your w203.

I still can't like the star grills, just look to big and outta place. But if you like it that's all that maters right.

Peydidy

Welcome to the forum! Not to much of a fan of that pinstripe you have on there but other then that, its a really clean C!

ncmudbug

Welcome to the forum and I'm sure you'll enjoy your W203. How many miles does it have? It looks really clean (including the pinstripe! ).

Keep us up to date on your plans!

Peydidy

Has the car ever been in a accident? The right side (left in the picture) fog light looks a little out of place like its pushed in a bit or something

arxylis

Thanks everyone for welcoming me to the forums. I got the car with 75k on the clock, but it was really well taken care of. The fog light is kinda loose and the mesh is a bit bent on the passenger side. Carfax came back as being a two owner with most of its time being spent in Florida. No reported accidents though. I'm guessing the fog light might have gotten messed up from hitting a rock or something in the road. Overall though it's in great shape. The fog light and the window shade (it doesn't like to go up without a little help) are the only things I've found wrong with it.

Akhafeez

welcome man, enjoy the mods!
Edit: sick evo btw

kluvsbenz

Again, not a pinstripe fan The rest of it looks great. Low mileage, too

rd5425

Nice car bro! It's amazing how much better the car looks with the smoked sidemarkers. I just changed out mine for some smoked ones and threw in some amber led bulbs and it blends in so well during the day and looks sick at night.

Peydidy

The 05s are a great year for the c230s, Mine currently has 76k and no major problems to date (knock on wood). If you decided to get a new fog light and mesh piece in the future send me a PM, I should have some for sale pretty soon. Enjoy the car, they are great as long as you maintain them correctly and take care of it.

sammydragon3

did u get that grill from ebay for 160? looks good

i'd suggest to buy sum bottles of techron fuel cleaner and run back to back tanks

mercedes approves and makes everything fuel related very clean

arxylis

Yep, sure did! I really like the way it looks, and the price was pretty good too.

I'll grab some fuel system cleaner when I go to do the next service, got 2600 miles before that yet. I'm not entirely sure it needs it though, I consistantly get between 32 and 36 mpg going to and from work.

anonymousmoose

Welcome and a nice example of a w203!

arxylis

Just ordered my headlights, tail light tint, and led interior lights. Will post pics when I get everything in!

Also, I think I might start working on how I'm going to install my emergency lights. I'm a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and have a nice blue light setup that was in the Evo. I just need to find out how I'm going to set everything up in the Merc.

Video of the lights in the Evo:

Stevenizzle

Damn, you jumped into it quickly! Gonna look pretty awesome. Black '05s ftw

And those emergency lights are pretty ****ing sweet, by the way.

arxylis

Haha, yeah... As soon as I decided what I wanted to get to replace the Evo I started checking out what was available for it. I didn't really want to go crazy performance wise, which is good because it doesn't look like much is out there for the C230K. But the mod bug bit me years ago and I haven't gotten over it yet... I just can't leave anything stock. Not even the software on my phone!

Thanks on the lights by the way. They were a pain to wire in and tuck everything. I'm not looking forward to doing it all over again lol.

arxylis

Well... I've received 2 of the 3 items I ordered. Unfortunately I didn't have much luck with either of them.

The tail light tint was an excercise in futility. Never did I think that thin plastic film would hve been such a PITA to deal with. I think I'm going to just spray tint, masking off how I want it to look.

The LEDs were horribly cheap crappy pieces that barely put out half of the light the stock incandescent bulbs did. I ended up soldering up a solution using some of the crap ones with some nice LED panels I had installed previously in the Evo.

All that's left are the headlights, which just shipped today. If those things are crap too I think I'm gonna lose it.

Crna Mechka

Nice W203 and welcome to the forum.

For some reason, I feel like that grille would look 10x better with just the mesh (no star or chrome line going across) but that's just another opinion to throw in your bag. Also noticed you're having some issues with LED's. Why not just order from AZN Optics who is a sponsor of the forum? I've ordered probably a dozen or more LED's from him and have nothing but good feedback on em. Just a thought.

Good luck w/ everything.

MBfinatic

Nice car! I would have taken that evo off your hands!

arxylis

You still can if you really want to inherit that massive headache... lol

arxylis

Here's a couple quick pics of the new headlights:

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