*Knowledge*

I don't have anything new but here are some pics of my interior.

petvan

For you guys that tinted, do I need to go to MB for this? Called a tint guy and he said he won't touch AMG's due to door electronic complexity, but MB want 750 for a tint job which appears a bit like robbery to me?

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alexasa

iTrader: (1)

I am a firm believer in hard break ins

Graycat305

AMG installs special "speed shift" window regulators or something?

I'm sure the windows and door electrics/ electronics are the same as any other C w205....

tmoneyC450amg

Try pressing the engine on button twice without your foot on the brake and then switch the dynamic to sports+. Now place your foot on the brake and push to start. VROOM pop crackle everytime! It's louder if you had just driven the car within the last hour or two

autopal

I know that trick, and I've tried it a few times, but my problem is, I shouldn't have to do that, it should happen automatically as long as the car was last in sports plus mode. I just wanna know if I'm the only one having this issue, or if it is common

*Knowledge*

Mine never stays on S+, it always starts on C by default. I wondered the same thing a couple months ago but accepted it along with the shoddy mbrace app.

tmoneyC450amg

Only european models start in the mode used last

autopal

Mine does it about 20% of the time

Graycat305

According to this video it should stay in the last mode you drove it in for a few hours...

tmoneyC450amg

This review was done very early on and it seems though he didn't say that based on personal experience but only on what the initial online manual stated.

I can speak from personal experience that it only starts up in Comfort mode no matter what mode you drove in last whether it was 1 minute ago or 4hrs ago.

That's why I turn on the accessory power first, switch it to S+ then push to start. every time

tmoneyC450amg

When you say 20% of the time, you mean it starts up in Sports+ 20% of the time or did you mean that it starts up with a rumble and a crackle 20% of the time?

I can also account for the 20% of the time that it starts up with a rumble and crackle for the rare occasion that I forget to switch to S+ before starting the car.

I realized that the car always starts up louder if you have previously drove the car in the past hour or two. Louder than even a cold start.

autopal

It never start up in sports+, that we know will not happen as it always default to comfort mode for re-start (I wish that could be changed) What I mean is, about 20% of the time it would start with the rumble and crackle if it was last shut off in sports+ mode. According to AMG, it should start with the rumble and crackle every time you restart, as long as the car was last in sports+ mode and the re-start is within 4 hours, but this just does not happen. I wish someone could get some clarification from Mercedes.

Albanmtexas

tmoneyC450amg

Car looks amazing! Congrats!

P.S. Hope you don't park like the way you do in the last pic everywhere you go. lol

inhartwetrust

Build is solidified for May 21st (dealer called to tell me he was able to successfully trade car allocations with another dealership), so I will need to finalize my order pretty soon. Here is where I stand now:

C450W4 $50,800
149 Polar White
974 designo® Saddle Brown/Black Nappa Leathe
H07 Linden Wood Trim $325
P02 P02 Premium Package: Burmester® Surround $1,520
810 : Burmester® Surround Sound System
P87 P87 designo Saddle Brown/Black Nappa Lea $3,620
877 : Ambient Lighting
873 : Heated Front Seats
U25 : MB Illuminated Door Sill Panels
P87 : designo Package
R01 Summer High Performance Tires
218 Rearview Camera $460
234 Blind Spot Assist
281 AMG® Performance Steering Wheel $500
293 Rear Side Airbags
319 319 Lighting Package: Dynamic LED Headli $800
640 : Active LED Headlamps
608 : Intelligent Highbeam Control
320 320 Multimedia Package: High-Resolution $2,230
815 : COMAND DVD CD Single
531 : COMAND w/Navigation and Voice Control
502 : Navigation Map Updates included for 3-ye
U71 : DVD Coding
389 389 HANDS-FREE ACCESS Package: HANDS-FRE $250
881 : Electronic Trunk Closer
871 : HANDS-FREE ACCESS
P17 : Keyless Go Control Code
413 Panorama Sunroof $1,480
5P8 Control code - scheduling & production i
521 521 Night Package: High gloss black fron $200
P55 : Night Package
6P5 Factory Code
606 19" AMG® Multi-Spoke Wheel - Black $850
SUBTOTAL $63,035
DESTINATION & DELIVERY $925
TOTAL $63,960

Am I missing anything important or any of the small little add-on I should have (I don't want driver assist package)?

tmoneyC450amg

Over the weekend, I took a trip from Philly to Atlantic City and halfway through the trip I encountered a 2015 Maserati Quadroporte S and I am surprised that our cars can hold up fairly well against it. The race from 60-125 was dead even but I just couldn't handle anything faster than that, I had 2 passengers and traffic had built up a bit but the dude in the masi just weaved through traffic going 145+. But the race from 45-125 quite fun tho! Being that our engines are very similar 3.0L turbocharged, only difference is that the masi is 404/406...We are in need of a tune!

inhartwetrust

...or in the handicap spots too often like the other 2 pics. Dude parked like a jackass for every picture he took, , I am literally lol'ing. So awesome.

cenzo86

Handicapped photos only. All others will be towed.

Albanmtexas

Lol I'm injured right now ����

Maritime

Why no parktronic? Distronic? Seems barebones....

inhartwetrust

Over $12K in options is "bare bones"? If I added the Driver + Packing Assist Package (a combined $3.5K in options) it would be pretty much fully loaded...

As I said above, I don't need or want the Driver Assistance Package -- mainly because I can drive the car myself, pace myself in traffic myself, hit the brakes myself, and keep the car in my lane myself. Also I don't see a need for the parking assist (although I mildly considered it), because -- you guessed it -- I can park the car myself. I literally can't stand people who back into parking spaces, and I refuse to do it myself because I'm not a redneck in a big Chevy truck who needs to prove his manhood over and over by backing into every parking spot I see...I can easily pull the car into and out of parking space myself (plus I didn't even use the backup camera on my test drive bc I can just turn around and look myself, so the surround camera seems like a surefire waste for me). Call me old fashioned, I guess.

Maritime

Old fashioned, barebones.

cl3

I'm planning on ordering soon with pretty much similar options, except the color. I prefer the Diamond White. What kind of a price did you negotiate?

netboy

make no sense. spend over 60k on a car but not willing to get driver assistance package?? i guess it' ok if you dont plan to drive long trip like over 2 hours on freeway. when i have my 2003 c320 coupe, the thing that worry me is if i use cruise control, i worry my car rear ended someone at 80mph if i felt asleep on the wheels.