There is one small rattle near the center console but I really dont give a ****.


oh sorry i forgot that u don't give a ****

damn, i feel old at 25... i was a jdm ricer in my previous life, i had a fd3s rx-7 w/ all the toys but i got tired of getting asked if i was fast and furious.

sooo...were you fast and furious? i was just a ricer in my past life...no jdm at alll hahaha

i'm 23... daddy helped pay for 2/3 of the car, as he bought cars for both of my brothers when they graduated from college. One got a Camry, one got a Sienna (he's married :p).

I paid for the rest of the car w/ summer money I earned during college.

I'll drive benzes for the rest of my life

I'm 33 and counting.... I feel old. I hope Mercedes is looking at this forum b/c they are definitely looking to sell more of their cars to 18-35 crowd.

i think that the C class target market was for the young and upcoming....make it affordable so they would buy it at a young age, then hope they get hooked and when they get older and make more money stay with MBZ and get the bigger cars I think its working

it's definitely working... my next car is the clk and then hopefully i'll move up to the sl!

It sure is! My next car is going to be an E and then hopefully a CL

Plan to keep the car untill I can afford something of my own. Probably keep the car even when I can afford something of my own. i.e. perhaps some cars in the $25-30k range.

of course, the dream will be the 211 E55.

I would love to get a E55T in alabaster white if they ever bring it in to the US.

no... only my car was cause it was yellow, haha... but it was yellow from the factory, no ghetto ricer paint job. but i was just a plain ricer w/ an accord before that, haha.

21 here. saved up for like what.. 5 years? car is self-bought, no funding from parents whatsoever. for the question concerning what younger people expect, i for one expect the car not to rattle . with the facts above i hope some of you can understand why i hear all the rattles i do. plus im picky as hell. but we cant have everything we want. next car w211 e55 in 2-3 years.

im 20.

you spent 27k on your benz?! hahahha you think you got the hook up.... but actually you got jacked man!! that is unless you got a sound system that cost you 10 Gs or a super charger under the hood that i dont know about....

hahahaha jk...... but if you did get sponsers... you shoulda spent less than that.

for those who paid for their own C, what kind of job do you do to pay for your C?

i look at eyes all day and give prescriptions for glasses \O-O/

For the >25yo who feel old on this thread, keep in mind that you're looking at an unrepresentative sample of all C-class owners. There are certainly a very large number of >25yo who either don't know of this site or don't even go on the Web much...

Just something to keep in mind. But yes, I'm sure Mercedes would be happy to know that there are plenty of young drivers, in addition to the older ones, picking their cars.

I was expecting quality...after owning a 2000 BMW 328i I had enough of electrical problems, squeaks, rattles...and boy am I disappointed. Maybe I'll get myself an Accord My uncle has had several MB's. All of them (E, S(variations) and SL classes) had superb build quality, but his brand new 2003 SL500 has been in the shop for 3 weeks in the first two months of ownership because of electrical problems. But then it "might" be excuseable since he got it sometime in early summer 2002 right as they came out in Germany. Upside was that I was able to drive his 2003 E500 loaner...with its own electrical problems

23 and just got my Benz in July after graduating in May. Quite a step up from my KIA huh? I work in real estate now and about to get into a brand new home soon. If you guys live in the SF Bay and need an agent, I'll be sure to hook you up. To you youngster whose parents paid for the car, I envy you. It's great to have a nice car at such a young age. Just don't get spoiled and remember to learn the value of hard work and what its like to make it on your own. :p

parents helped with the money down. i'm just paying for financing (0%) for 3 years. i got a good deal

the temp fix for the rattle in my center console is pressing hard against the lower corners of the wood. it comes back every 2 weeks or so.

Boy, do I feel like a dinosaur. I'm 46. Maybe I should have seen if there was an AARP discount at my MB dealer!!!

im 22 ..picked up the benz on my own in 2001..i own a gaming buisness..

time to gamble????

hrmms young.. own a gaming business.... PC BANG?

hahaha thats a good guess!! ur right,i run one of those PC bangs.. bang bang