1. 2018 Mercedes Benz C300 Cabriolet
2. 2018 Mercedes Benz C300 Convertible
3. Mercedes Benz C300 Review 2018

European luxury cars depreciate quickly once they leave the hands of careful first and second owners and start being treated like throwaway rusty Chevy Malibus or Daewoo Leganzas. For this reason, I see more S-Classes than C-Classes in big self-service wrecking yards, and the coupe version of the is an especially unusual Junkyard Find.

Here’s one that crashed hard and now ends its days in a Denver-area junkyard. For 2003, this car had a supercharged, all-aluminum four-cylinder engine that displaced 1.8 liters and made 189 horsepower. Some junkyard shopper has grabbed the blower, a move. If I ever see one of these C230 Kompressors in such a place, with the engine in good shape and the six-speed manual transmission behind it, I will be tempted to buy parts for a stupid engine swap. I think a would be fun with this powertrain.

Around then, someone transplanted the C32 AMG engine into one of these C230 Kompressor Coupes, and enjoyed the only manual transmission-equipped version of that drivetrain I ever saw (note that the Crossfire SRT-6 was also automatic only). 6 days ago - Owners Manuals Mercedes Benz USA. October 20th, 2018 - Owners Manuals Your Mercedes Benz Owners Manuals are your go to source. This 2000 Mercedes-Benz C230 was a luxurious supercharged sedan once, but now it's just a source of parts in a Denver-area self-service wrecking yard. These “Kompressor” supercharged engines aren’t all that easy to find in wrecking yards. This car listed new at $31,750, or about $47,400 in 2018 dollars.

The interior still has some good stuff, and I don’t see slapped on by tow-truck crews who find icky bodily fluids after a bad wreck. Some of these bits will live on in other C-Classes.

These cars were cheap by Mercedes-Benz standards, with C230 Kompressor Sport Coupe MSRPs starting at $25,670 (just a bit under $35,000 in 2017 inflato-bucks). American-market sales suffered the same fate as those of of previous decade, as U.S.

Shoppers who can tolerate coupes and want high-end European iron tend to want something both faster and more flashy. A sad end to a rare-but-not-valuable Mercedes-Benz coupe in Cubanite Silver paint. PentastarPride I feel the same way, but at the end of the day, all kinds of cars end up in there due to total loss wrecks. I’m sure that somewhere, a 2017 car was wrapped around a tree eight months ago and now lives on as dollar store razors. I still wonder about the ones that have nary a scratch on them though. What expensive mechanical or electrical issue doomed the car?

2018 Mercedes Benz C300 Cabriolet

How many cars end up in there not 10+ years out of manufacturer warranty (assuming 36-months), but perhaps months or a couple years since it was last covered? I need to go tour a huge yard one of these days, just to walk around. If I decide to go through with my plans to buy and restore a J-body LeBaron this summer, I might need to go out of necessity for oddball things I can’t find on eBay or RockAuto.

Gtem Fair enough. But if you’ve been around 7-10 year old Euros that come in for diagnostics and repair, a single full scan is a real eye-opener as far as how many electrical (or electro/mechanical) subsystems there are working in the background, and how many are self-reporting that they are out of wack. The vast majority of these modules are sealed, and aftermarket alternatives to the OEM $700-900+ replacements are rare. There is a reason these things depreciate so precipitously, and end up in the hands of people that generally just ignore their Christmas-tree dash until something serious finally conks out or the car is wrecked. The speed with which these Euro-sleds go through this ownership cycle is what leads me to refer to them as disposable. Cognoscenti When these cars were still being sold, I had a MB C32 AMG.

Naturally, I frequented the Mercedes-Benz enthusiast forums, since myself and apparently everyone else were all modifying our cars with Stage 1 & 2 packages & components from folks like Evosport and RennTech. Around then, someone transplanted the C32 AMG engine into one of these C230 Kompressor Coupes, and enjoyed the only manual transmission-equipped version of that drivetrain I ever saw (note that the Crossfire SRT-6 was also automatic only).

No word on the longevity of that combination – I doubt that the C230 transmission was meant to handle that much torque! Featherston “no mechanical issues for over 5 yrs we had it” An aunt has had one of these C230’s from new–I think it’s an ’02 or an ’03–and hasn’t had any reliability issues with it. It’s always been a grocery-store-and-church car, so it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s still under 100,000 miles. My uncle and she probably aren’t a good test case, as the universe seems to be rewarding them for having owned a ’78 diesel Coupe de Ville. Pretty much everything they’ve had since then, including an HT-4100-powered Eldorado that theoretically could’ve been horrible, has been trouble-free. Swarden My wife and I, newly married, like 6 months married, both students and very poor, happened into a local shopping mall.

Mostly intending to stare at things we could not afford, including a brand new blue Merc C230 Kompressor parked inside the mall. It was being raffled off, and I bought a ticket you probably know where this is going. We won that car and drove it for the next 2 years. It was hilarious. So very poor, and driving around a brand new Merc was awesome. It was interesting to see the difference between how you were immediately sized up exiting a brand new Merc(even this one), rather than exiting your 1989 Honda Accord Lxi(which was awesome). Anyway, this car, while not great, was a very good driver.

2018 Mercedes Benz C300 Convertible

Good inputs, and it was a rear wheel drive hatch, which was unique and fun. It got me hooked on cars.

Prior to owning it, I was not that interested. I really owe my current car addiction to this car, and getting it for free.

This was a Chrysler era product though, so in our short ownership the interior basically dissolved. Bits of plastic falling off everywhere, bits of fake chrome flaking off like dead skin. It was horrible, and shocked me really, because Mercedes was supposed to be the pinnacle of build quality. I now own a 190e 2.3-16, and the gap between these two cars in build quality is staggering. I can still remember the look on my brother-in-laws face when I drove this thing over for dinner. Thank you for posting this, a bit nostalgic, and 17 years ago my wife and I were really hot shit in this thing, at least we thought we were. Vadonkey I bought one of these, an’02 with the 2.3L supercharged engine.

I bought it as a MB CPO in 2006 for 18K. It was a blast to drive, I ran with an Acura RSX on the local freeway from 65 to 130 mph and we were side by side the whole time so we waved and backed off and parted ways. You only saw a few of them on the road. The A/C would randomly discharge all of it’s freon with a load PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, and then hot air was all you got, not fun in August.

Mercedes Benz C300 Review 2018

The dealer could never find why it did it, and told me that they would have to start charging me for the freon since they couldn’t find where or why it leaked out. Ended up trading that car for a C320 wagon.