New runabout

agw_01 said:
A friend of mine's Mum used to have one. The interior made me die a little bit inside. Seriously nasty (and I drive a Rover!).

But for £500, you can't complain. Hope it brings you many months of trouble-free motoring.
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Must admit it struck me as odd there are no stereo controls on the steering wheel. Everything else seems nice enough, carpet on the doors, auto windows on all 4 doors. Odd mercedes mentality touches, like the button to turn the AC off, not on. (when the ac is on, the light is off!)

Should be able to use this one till i get my back sorted, then double our money when we sell it.
 
The 406 has a think layer fuzz on the doors and even then the top of the doors is vinyl.
The cars i've been driving of late have had plastic/vinyl doorcards, the a-class is a higher quality of finish than the cars i would usually drive and i'm noticing it.
 
Well somebody has left a deposit on it and will be picking it up on saturday.

It's only had one problem during ownership and that the top mount bearing dried out and needed replacing. (interesting fact, from the factory the original top mount bearings only has balls in half the available mountings, 30 holes, 15 bearings. These are definitely built to a cost)

Passed the MOT with no advisories, been boringly reliable tbh.

Once the "omg i'm driving a merc" glow had worn off it slowly sank in that it was actually a lower spec than my old tank of a 406.
No auto wipers, no radio controls on the steering wheel, etc. Little things that should be present on a prestige marque but are missing on this particular car, like the power mirrors being on a button and not the key.

Quite a nice lazy drive, but if you give it some boot if absolutely widdles through the petrol (got it under 25mpg when driving like a 19 year old). It was the early models that had the rollover problem, they stiffened the suspension and fractionally widened the track to sort it, which makes it great fun on roundabouts and sharp corners.

Would i buy another one? If it was a diesel auto and the price was right, probably. It's not actually a "bad" car, it's just not as good as it could be. The seating height is nice and there is loads of space inside (we had a long weekend away on a static caravan and got 2 adults, 3 kids including car seat, big pram and all our clothes, food and sundries into it)

Just need to get my 406 fixed, MOT'd & sold before my insurance runs out in december now!
 
It went for £1295 :)

Back is a write off, spend most days smashed out of my skull on oxycodone, but I've been told I should "level off" after a while so I'll get the painkiller effect without the high as a kite side effect.
 
And it's gone! Met them at the train station with the car and they drove it home.

Next up is to MOT the 406 and get rid of that one too. <sob>
 
crinkleshoes said:
Terrible, terrible car... hope it didn't cost you much!
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SB118 said:
£500 with plenty of mot.
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SB118 said:
only had one problem during ownership and that the top mount bearing dried out and needed replacing
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SB118 said:
Passed the MOT with no advisories, been boringly reliable tbh.
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SB118 said:
It went for £1295 :)
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Sod taking one to a track day!

(interesting tech point, the kickdown on these is just a button on the floor under the accelerator!)
 
SB118 said:
Sod taking one to a track day!

(interesting tech point, the kickdown on these is just a button on the floor under the accelerator!)
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I think that was only a problem with early A Classes which they recalled to modify so it wouldn't happen...but I still wouldn't track one either!
 
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