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Captain Slow Charging
Oh yes, this probably belongs more to Random Thoughts again than Post Your Car, since it is again going to be extremely temporary. I've bought some more hot garbage for the icetrack meet, very much in the tradition of previous beaters.
The car this year is a Mercedes W203 C180 in Classic trim and metallic green-black. Despite being badged C180, these early cars had the M111 2.0-liter engine as seen in the W202 C200, but with a six-speed manual. It is spectacularly rusty, dented and tragic after 400,000 km, but that just means we will feel less bad when parts inevitably fall off.
It has an alternating amount of warning messages in the center display, between one, none and 12, no working brake lights, various issues which can be explained by faulty SAM modules, so on and so on. But it turns, brakes and goes forward and sideways, which is what we expect. On the road it's completely fine and actually comfortable, plus the trip computer claims it does just 7l/100km. 129hp is also quite surprisingly enough to move it briskly. Tires are not great, but I might have the old W202 set put under it as they are only a little too small (185/65R15 vs stock 195/65R15).
Incredibly this hunk of junk cost something like 65,000 eur new depending of options, despite being the cheapest W203 sedan for sale. It's also one of the earliest cars here as it dates back to Sept 2000. That might explain some of the rust.
The car this year is a Mercedes W203 C180 in Classic trim and metallic green-black. Despite being badged C180, these early cars had the M111 2.0-liter engine as seen in the W202 C200, but with a six-speed manual. It is spectacularly rusty, dented and tragic after 400,000 km, but that just means we will feel less bad when parts inevitably fall off.
It has an alternating amount of warning messages in the center display, between one, none and 12, no working brake lights, various issues which can be explained by faulty SAM modules, so on and so on. But it turns, brakes and goes forward and sideways, which is what we expect. On the road it's completely fine and actually comfortable, plus the trip computer claims it does just 7l/100km. 129hp is also quite surprisingly enough to move it briskly. Tires are not great, but I might have the old W202 set put under it as they are only a little too small (185/65R15 vs stock 195/65R15).
Incredibly this hunk of junk cost something like 65,000 eur new depending of options, despite being the cheapest W203 sedan for sale. It's also one of the earliest cars here as it dates back to Sept 2000. That might explain some of the rust.
