sean1.8t

Hahaha touche my friend, touche

MASSC450

A few more...

1) No Apple CarPlay

2) No front fog lights

3) No headlight washers

4) No heated rear seats

5) No rear charging ports

6) No rear temperature control

Hey Mercedes I get it, my C Class is not an E or S Class, but even way less expensive American cars for instance have most of these features already...standard!

Look Mercedes, I love my C450, but I will continue to harp on your shortcomings when it comes to the C Class...shortcomings which would need to be rectified with the next redesign of the C Class if you want to keep me as a customer.

Thlian

You know that the premium car makers want YOU to decide what you want, you spec your car to your preference. You choose to buy Mercedes, then you accept it flawds when it comes to what's accessible or not. Hey, it might not have Apple CarPlay, but it neither have Android Auto, so we are both screwed. Headlight washers, indeed they have, or at least here. Backseat heating, may not be standard but at least optional. Front foglights are integrated, so if you want then any other places, then you prefer form before function. Backseat climate regulation, again, not standard but optional. Seem like you do an awful lot of backseat driving. Charge through 12V out take, problem solved.

I personally have critisised the for not throwing in more standard equipment. But that's the way they want it

GerritKw

+1

MASSC450

You do realize that the C Class (in the U.S. at least) does not offer ANY of those features I mentioned in my last post, no matter how much money you plunk down, right?

And it's not a German car thing either since BMW does offer ALL those features in their 3 Series. What's the sense for a luxury sedan to not at least offer those options?

Are you familiar with the phrase "The customer is always right"?

Thlian

Never works......

I don't know why MBUSA chose to have it this way, apparently they HAVE made those choices for you. Your loss of their, on this side we can individualize and choose canaries and hummus till the money runs out. You are obligated to complain 😁

If it is any comfort, I haven't speced my car with backseat heating or climate control.

And you really need to do something with the federal laws that prohibit light assist.

unr1

My biggest complaint is that all the driver assistance tech should be standard. Look at these other car manufacturers doing it before MB.
adaptive cruise should be standard with the ability to change it to regular cruise if you wish. Although I would always keep it adaptive.

sean1.8t

Yep, my 2002 base model A4 had both rear seat heating and climate controls (dual zone too). My 01 sport model didn't have these (02 was the first year or offer these STANDARD) but the both had headlight washers and fog lights; again, standard.

Luton Driver

A sound system that sounds way below my sons Kia Ceed, which cost less than half the price of my C Class.

Being told that I would have to pay £573 per year if I wanted yearly map updates while again my son gets 7 years of free updates for his cheap Kia

No provision for any sort of spare wheel.

No heated windscreen/windshield. My Ford had that and I loved it.

No alarms for a part closed door.

Expensive service costs.

Having to pay for an options package to get the one option I was actually looking for so I had to go without.

A key fob that seems to have a range of half of England which would allow someone sitting a long way away to clone the entry function.

GerritKw

Why did you buy this car then, and not a Kia?

sean1.8t

Hell, call me an a$$hole, but why would anyone buy any Benz below a 450 (or 340i/S4/ATS-v)?

Such a high premium for something that is pretty comparable to many cars that are 1/2 to 3/4 the price. seats are just as comfy, carplay, and A/C is A/C no matter what car you're in.. I guess you get to let people know you've "made it" when you're in your c180 Benz

Mike5215

If you're not sensitive about status, a $40,000 Camaro SS will do everything a $60,000 C450 does, only quicker and with $20,000 left over for mods. Except for the little AMG badge to let people know you've "made it".

sean1.8t

I require AWD and 4 doors though.

And I couldn't care less about my "fake" AMG badging. I wanted a FI motor that was bigger than a 4 banger.

Also mine is a company vehicle and I could only choose between MB, Lexus, BMW, and Cadillac....


Nice try though

Mike5215

Subaru WRX! 4 doors, AWD and identical performance to your C450, also for $40k. Use the extra $20k to hold you over until you can find a job where your boss doesn't dictate to you what kind of car you're allowed to drive.

unr1

gfmohn

Except for one or two occasions, I have not activated the door ajar warning. However, my hood is extremely difficult to latch. Mechanics never get it right, unless they have to test-drive the car. It looks right, it feels right, but after I drive 100 yards, the alarm goes off. By that time, I am on the road in traffic. Unless I want to pull into someone's driveway, I have to wait for a quiet side street. Then, I get out (I have have to do so in the rain), slam the hood again, and maybe repeat the process!
As for the distance remaining, I have never seen that indicated in the COMAND system. It is available in the Trip section of the instrument panel, but it doesn't come up automatically.

sean1.8t

Brilliant!

Except WRX is still 4 banger.

Keep trying man, you'll figure this out sooner or later

Sam Manuel

Unbelievable lol it worked !!! What about volume level ? no display indicator to be seen anywhere when I adjust.

Thlian

Excuse me? Wait what? If seats, carplay and a/c are your only preferences?
And then I might be stupid for buying a C350e?

ManiacGT

so the differentiator is a big engine? Not where big engines are massively taxed. A luxury car is a luxury car with or without a hugely polluting engine.

turning your argument around why would you buy a benz with a big engine when you can buy much cheaper cars with big engines?

MASSC450

Because he said he needed AWD, and here in the States, you mostly cannot get AWD with a V8 unless it's an SUV or a pickup.

Back on topic please guys...

Thlian

450 is a six.....anyway.

Mike5215

I figured it out. It's literally an extra $10,000 per cylinder (since a car is a car) but you're willing to pay it because you hate 4 bangers so much. So what does the "1.8t" in your username stand for?

It's like if my user name was MidgetDick5215 but I swore up and down I had a huge *****. (My username is NOT MidgetDick5215. Because that name wasn't available when I joined).

Mike5215

Ok, here's one: The rattles. Really disappointed in the way the C is put together relative to my previous Mercedes.

likerage

Concur with the rattles. I will probably never own another Mercedes because of all the rattles I have in my C450. Its out of control.

The vibrations when doing 3 point turns on the C450/C43 is embarrassing. I cant believe that made it to production.