leeer73

Hey everyone! My wife and I just bought our first Benz this weekend. We were out to get a '10 model, but we found a great deal on an '09 demo with 9k miles.

Anyway, this car is beautiful and it's gotto be one of the classiest cars I've ever owned (I've had like 12 the past 10 years, 30-40 in my life!)!!!

Glad to be apart of this forum, I am hopeing to be able to contribute here at some point as well!

One question though, we have a C300 and I was wondering if different packages were included in this model, if so, How can I tell which package we have?

Here are a few pics!

Royce118

You're having a sports, P1 package. Congratz on your new ride!

AkaSigFreak

Congratulations and welcome to the forum. Nice color choice
P1 includes: Heated front seats, auto-dimming mirrors, garage door opener, rain sensing wipers and Sirius satellite radio.
P2 includes: P1 equipment, power rear sun shade, Bi-xenon headlamps, corner illuminating fog lamps, headlamp washers, led tail lights and split folding rear seats.

^Defintely the Sports Model but not sure about the P1 package (I don't see an antenae on the roof)

Royce118

I don't see Bi-Xenons and Led tail lights?

charliele729

So it looks like you have no packages and options on the car. It a bare bone Benz, congrats on the car.

Royce118

Charlie you sure there are cars with no options at all? Never heard of it though.

Sportstick

I assume you took title to a "NEW" vehicle, not "USED", even though the dealer had it in demo service. Therefore, the dealer was obligated to supply the vehicle with the Monroney label, although it might have been removed from the window. Check the glove box or ask the dealer for it. That will have all the info on exactly what is on your car.

leeer73

Thanks guys! This is the headlights and here are the tails:

f8al

Hey, so there's an antenna after all... It looks like the possibility of a rear sunshade but it's too hard to tell. I'm thinking P1 package.

Congrats on the new car, are you planning on doing any mods? I would suggest searching the forum for "clear side markers" to get you started

Sportstick

We do a lot of interesting modifications, some for performance, but others designed to improve the car's appearance, e.g. changing yellow side markers to clear or smoked, adding spoilers, diffusers, new wheels, etc. But, bumper stickers? Some people complain about having a front plate in their state!

Can you get those peeled off or painted over really quickly? Or just photograph the car from the front and side, please?

leeer73

Thanks alot guys! I appreciate it!

Not sure about the tails, but the headlights are Bi-Xenons right?

How do I tell if it has the shade?

Well I just picked up an '01 Bmw that I'm going to start modding. I'll let my wife enjoy this car for a little while before I start modding this sucker! "Search" will how-ever become my best friend!



not sure what you mean?

Okay, i found it! It says under Value added packages:

333 Sport Sedan
327: 7-speed Automatic transmission

RLE

No P2, sadly.

Sportstick

The little green cross and the number "8" stuck on the rear fascia under the right taillamp!! It's like seeing a great piece of artwork with graffiti!!

leeer73

Ha! Your kinda right! Well over here in Hawaii, we do not have emissons. Because we are in the middle of the ocean, no one enforces the federal emission guidliines here (Woot!)

Instead, we have what is called a saftey inspection. We have to take our car in yearly to a garage and the inspect the lights, tires, wipers and yada yada to make sure our cars are safe for the road. That sticker tells the police officer tailing you what month and year your "saftey" inspection expires.

Sportstick

Vote out any legislators who won't support changing that to a sticker right on the &%^#$ license plate...the perpetrators of that sticker should be charged with malicious mischief, vandalism, and defacing private property!!

leeer73

Lmao! Don't get me started on our "legislators" over here. Our Governor is holding back our State tax refund until the middle of the year! I'm supposed to get that money in a few weeks and start MODDING!!!

qwqwerertyty

take a picture of your center console and we'll know what exact packages you have:

if you have the rear sunshade button you have P2
if you have the heated seats buttons you have P1
if you have the folding screen you have MM

leeer73

I went and checked. I have NO buttons there!

Oh well atleast I have the sport package...

imboom

Congratulations on your car fellow Hawaii person.

I drove a 09 C300 in that color as my service loaner with 8400 miles a few months ago. Don't remember the exact plate. Don't worry, I took good care of it, even though the car smelled like makeup. It was completely barebones, no P1 nor P2. I personally do hope you spent less than 30k on the car though as the few people I know recently who bought MB's(CL, E, R, C) all paid at least 1k less than invoice on their new 2010 car.

leeer73

Thanks imboom. I wouldn't doubt it if it is the same car! We spent a little over 30k but I got them to give me more on our trade in than it was worth. I'm not sure, but I think that helps to balance the price out. We priced a '10 model and it was 10k more. We got this from the Kapiolani Stealership.


So guys, this car has the sports package, what exactly is included with that?

imboom

There is only one dealership for MB here and that's the Kapiolani one. I was considering selling my C350 with 11k miles for a great price too in order to pick up a really really good deal on a C63.

More "sportier" suspension than the Luxury model, the exterior is what they call AMG Styling Package overseas, aluminum trim vs wood trim(I believe) on the luxury. The C350 only comes in Sport. For a bit over 30k, you won't find many cars out there that are better overall. Once you break the 35k, 40k, etc, the world opens up.

You won't see much Luxury models out there and as a whole MBUSA sells more Sports than Luxury.

bulletspec

Body kit, Sports grille and different wheels... other than that... it's pretty standard... it should have bluetooth, the standard in-dash 6 speaker stereo.. and a single moonroof... and other things.. i dunno... basically that's it..

but Enjoy it!.. it's basically the same ride and less options... not that you need a heated seat @ hawaii... it's the same as Puerto Rico... but those are just fancy knobs for the tropical weather guys like us...

Floding rear seats would be a nice to have, and the Led Tails and the Bixenon .. but a 4k option??... not worth it!.. i bought an aftermarket HID kit and done deal... although in my case.. i ordered it with the pano and the "must have" (for me) the Multimedia or MM package.. all the other one's for me where "nice to have" no "gotta have" as the MMpackage...


Good luck and EnJoy your benz!!!

neero

Hi there,

just noticed the picture attached - does all automatic gear shofts have the red led to indicate where the position of teh shift is? Mine does not - or is it USA thing?
thanks-

sorry for the hijack

Ron Jr

neero USA/NA spec has the lighted gear indicator.

The OT definitly doesnot have P2 there are no cutouts for the headlamp washers.

leeer73

Thank you for all of the infos guys! No matter what package it is, I'm still loving this car!