Ok so got a new 2018 GLC. Very happy with the car overall. I am disappointed with myself for not looking into the LED light package more ahead of time. I only test drove during the day. Regardless I ended up with stock lights. I did reach out to my dealer who seemed to think that this would cost a lot of money for me to trade in and get the led package and night package.
More than the 2200 it would have cost me the first time around, but how much more I’m wondering. Anybody else go through a similiar thing? Did you have Any luck with a “swap”? 1k miles on the car now.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to live with this mistake for a while. Not for nothing but the standard headlights should be some sort of LED in my opinion.

Thanks for the reply’s. So the dealer put together numbers for me it would cost about 10k to get out of my GLC and into another one. Needless to say that’s not going to happen. Maybe I’ll change the bulbs out down the line but for now I’m stuck. Only last thing I thought of was to try to talk to mbusa customer service? I’m sure there’s nothing they can do but maybe they can make my car a mb service vehicle. Doubt it. For anybody looking at new glc in USA don’t do what I did and make sure you are getting the upgraded led light package.

You may be able to add aftermarket LED’s but I doubt that you can add the active feature along with it. Well worth the extra dollars unless you only want LED’s.

The elephant in the room here is, with all the information available at your fingertips (literally), was this a mistake or a decision? Most of the negative comments I’ve read on this thread and others about LEDS revolve around the cost of just the LED upgrade or the jump to the LED ILS system. And it’s great members are offering solutions to help ease the pain of the OP’s “mistake”, but it seems most of those workarounds were done because the people offering them up DECIDED not to spend the money on LED’S.

My guess is the biggest “mistake” GLC buyers make is assuming (rightfully) that all GLC’s have parking sensors because the bumpers have what appear to be sensors in them. Not to mention, much less expensive cars come standard with them now. Imagine the surprise when after they’ve bought their car (or even worse, their special order car comes in) and the “sensors” don’t work because they didn’t get Parktronic! I ALMOST made that mistake.

Anyway, as always, it’s on the buyer to do his/her homework when building their car on the configurator and read all the reviews and videos you can. There are some awesome videos on the LED ILS system. For instance, while the Head Up Display is cool, I decided I didn’t need/want it and it wasn’t worth it for how and where I drive. And I agree with Dieseldoc, the LED ILS is worth every penny I paid for it.

Thanks for the reply’s. This is some great advice to try to fix this. I went to the dealer to see what they can do. They wrote me an offer for 7k less than what I paid 20 days ago. So yeah that’s off the table and might be shopping elsewhere going forward. The whole experience was lackluster.
I’m not blaming MB or the dealer. I read reviews I watched videos and played around on their website. Every video I whatched picture I saw featured led lights. Which makes sense now bc a lot of them were from reviewers in the u.k and the led lights are standard there so no one mentioned it as a “must have option” .
In addition I’m not a huge car guy. I’m ok with not having 20 inch rims , amg package ect. So it’s not something I would pick up on personally unless driving at night. Although now I notice every led light I see on the road lol. If I was a salesperson I would show the two cars side by side lights on and it’s an easy upsell. I would of happily paid up for them. I chalk it up to a learning experience. I won’t make the same mistake again although I bet the next time I’m doing this led lights are standard here in the USA so it’ll be a non issue. Thanks!