she had been waiting at the dealer for me, for 2 weeks.
Yesterday my old lease finally ended and i went to pick her up.

i must say, we hit it off straight away!
she's very pretty my black beauty.

I'l post some pics over the weekend after i cleaned her...
(The rain & wind yesterday brough some sahara sand with it)

1 Stupid question, which is not very important,
but i'd like to know anyway: (how) are the rearview mirrors heated...?

 

You mean the rear window bieng misted up and you would like to clear it?

if you have advance climate control then you can hit the bottom botton on the right hand side dial for temprature control.

see the picture below

 

no i mean the outside rearview mirrors.
i'm used to having a button whcih you press to heat them,
but there's no mention of any heating system in the manual.

 

nope there is no such feature. The side rear view mirrors ( if you bought the option ) will dimm at night. That happens to only driver side mirror and rear view mirror inside the car.

Why would they be heated up anyway?

 

ice/snow... (not that we have that much here in the south)
i thought this was more/less standard on cars nowadays?

 

Both outside mirrors are heated. It is a standard feature, and I think it is automatic unlike VW for example that you have to turn the switch.

 

good to know. There is occasional snow fall in amsterdam. :-)

 

The rearview mirrors will be heated when you push the button for the back window, so like LX RAVEN XL told, if you push that button your mirrors will be heated also. (thats here in the Netherlands)

 

Sorry, i was wrong.... it was by my previous Mercedes.....

But now the manual says:

At low outside temperatures, the exterior mirrors are heated automatically.

 

cheers, i can sleep now!

 

Congrats on the new ride!

 

hav fun wit ur new ride, congrats!

 

ok, so she's a bit dirrrrty, but:

 

wow Saharan sand.... I didn't know it could travel across the Mediterranean. Grats on the new buy. She's a beauty. I'm sure the wine is flowing in celebration there in France.

 

Nice ride man

A bit Dirty where??

Enjoy your new ride

 

nice!!!

 

Very nice!!! What are those 2 lines next to the fog/cornering lights? Is that for '09 cars only?

 

you don't see it on the pic, but believe me it's there!
I'm still in my **** period i guess LOL

 

nope, that's comes with the avantgarde version.

In europe you have classic, avantgarde or elegance.
some detailed pics of eacch model here:

http://www.mercedes-benz.fr/content/...ines.0003.html

 

Why are the skirts so rounded??? Don't they use the AMG styling package in EU-spec Avantgarde version anymore?

 

amg pack is an option.
http://www.mercedes-benz.fr/content/..._amg.0001.html

 

OK, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

 

only in North America the AMG pkg is standard.

 

In the The Netherlands every little thing is an option, we buy the car standard without anything, than you can choice for Elegance of Avantgarde (about € 2800,00) Exept for the C320CDI/C350, than this is standard.

We also have the Comfort package about € 2900,00
We have the AMG Package from € 2800,00 till € 4600,00, depends on the other packages you have... and than we have more extra's were we have to pay for.....

So my car was basic € 40K and with some packages i pay almost € 50K

 

and of course you got the BPM which is not helping!