Some may know that we have had a little A class for some time now, I thought just over 3 years. Turns out we actually owned it 4 years and 4 months. Its been a great car and I know its sad but a little emotional to see it go. It collected our first born from the Hospital and has been such a great little car.
Since we are expecting another little one, time seemed right to move on. I have been looking at all sorts. Quite literally, VW's, C-Max, A3 Sportbacks, BM's, vauxhals and in all variety. Mrs A210 however has always liked the B class since they came out. So I started to look.
I so so nearly went for an almost new B160 BE at out local Chester garage, literally about half a mile away. However looking into them it was quite basic and the engine maybe not up to what we would want (as I can see me driving this a lot more than the A)
So I considered a B200 Turbo, but just like her A210 the performance would be wasted, its a model no longer sold although for the price of them you get a lot of car. I then started looking at the B180Cdi and B200Cdi's. What I noticed after probably looking at every B class for sale over the past few months was that the B200Cdi's seem to be quite standard spec, however the B180Cdi it seems were specced up a bit?
I then checked out the tunning / remap route / D2 Brabus kit and noticed that with some computer code you can get a B180Cdi to have more power than a B200Cdi....
Then to options, what do we want...Ok easy if buying brand new, tick what you want. Searching pre owned a little harder.
Main ones were:-
Silver
Auto
Heated Seats
Parking Sensors
Sports Wheels
So the search was on, eventually I tracked a car down at Mercedes Teeside. Silver, Sportpack, Half leather,Heated seats, Front and rear parking sensors, Audo 20 6 CD, Isofix. Ticked all the box's.
Did the 'deal' over the phone, drove up to collect the car on Saturday, Collection was as good as buying new. Flowers for Mrs A210 as we walked through the door, Bacon butty and coffee for lunch
and the car was in the showroom ready to go. Full Service done. Paid for it on a switch card showed all the main controls. Parked next to our old car to swap the stuff over and left for a day in Whitby...
Quite sad leaving the old car, but this really is lovely. I know a lot of people may think they are a bit ugly? but for our needs now it suits. I actually like the look of it, some neat touches and again a great use of space. Feels much bigger than a C class estate my brother recently had on loan.
I like it so much that we are due to go to Europe very soon and rather than use mine I swapped the green card etc to use this
only a couple of pictures for now of the car, will take more soon. Oh and a few of Whitby. 350 mile round trip, 46mpg @ 70 and also a bit of fun in the lanes.
Leaving the old car
Pictures of Whitby after we collected the car
Full report as it will soon be doing 2K to 3K miles to France
Since we are expecting another little one, time seemed right to move on. I have been looking at all sorts. Quite literally, VW's, C-Max, A3 Sportbacks, BM's, vauxhals and in all variety. Mrs A210 however has always liked the B class since they came out. So I started to look.
I so so nearly went for an almost new B160 BE at out local Chester garage, literally about half a mile away. However looking into them it was quite basic and the engine maybe not up to what we would want (as I can see me driving this a lot more than the A)
So I considered a B200 Turbo, but just like her A210 the performance would be wasted, its a model no longer sold although for the price of them you get a lot of car. I then started looking at the B180Cdi and B200Cdi's. What I noticed after probably looking at every B class for sale over the past few months was that the B200Cdi's seem to be quite standard spec, however the B180Cdi it seems were specced up a bit?
I then checked out the tunning / remap route / D2 Brabus kit and noticed that with some computer code you can get a B180Cdi to have more power than a B200Cdi....
Then to options, what do we want...Ok easy if buying brand new, tick what you want. Searching pre owned a little harder.
Main ones were:-
Silver
Auto
Heated Seats
Parking Sensors
Sports Wheels
So the search was on, eventually I tracked a car down at Mercedes Teeside. Silver, Sportpack, Half leather,Heated seats, Front and rear parking sensors, Audo 20 6 CD, Isofix. Ticked all the box's.
Did the 'deal' over the phone, drove up to collect the car on Saturday, Collection was as good as buying new. Flowers for Mrs A210 as we walked through the door, Bacon butty and coffee for lunch
and the car was in the showroom ready to go. Full Service done. Paid for it on a switch card showed all the main controls. Parked next to our old car to swap the stuff over and left for a day in Whitby...Quite sad leaving the old car, but this really is lovely. I know a lot of people may think they are a bit ugly? but for our needs now it suits. I actually like the look of it, some neat touches and again a great use of space. Feels much bigger than a C class estate my brother recently had on loan.
I like it so much that we are due to go to Europe very soon and rather than use mine I swapped the green card etc to use this
only a couple of pictures for now of the car, will take more soon. Oh and a few of Whitby. 350 mile round trip, 46mpg @ 70 and also a bit of fun in the lanes.
Leaving the old car
Pictures of Whitby after we collected the car
Full report as it will soon be doing 2K to 3K miles to France
