But I spents 6 grand on all this cool stuff and my car doesn't drive like it used to...

Usually I do a cool car of the month. This month we’re doing something different. The UnCool car of the month.  This months UnCool car of the month is a 2009 Mercedes C300.

It has just been lowered (ruined) and had 19″ Mercedes AMG wheels with Dunlop tires installed. That’s about 4K worth of tires and wheels.  No, I didn’t lower it. I fix cars not ruin them.

Usually after all this crap is installed, the poor soul who owns it is told to go get an alignment and that will fix any and all ills that have crept up after the “upgrade”. Sarcasm intended.  I always find it interesting that the people who sell that crap and install it never own an alignment rack.

Guess what? Your $50,000 crap mobile doesn’t even come with simple camber caster adjustments to set the wheel alignment. That’s right, your crap mobile now pulls right and there isn’t a darn thing that can be done about it. Except buy a Lexus.

Mercedes used to make all of their cars fully adjustable when it came to wheel alignment. Not anymore. Totally arrogant (ignorant) engineering.  Too bad, they used to be a great car. Not anymore.  Should’ve bought a Lexus…

Thankfully I almost never work on these anymore just for the very reasons I mentioned above. I only agreed to look at this one because a supplier of mine’s delivery driver owns it. Obviously I’m in the wrong job…

Here is a photo of both recently taken in our shop. On the left is a worn brake pad with about 3 millimeters of brake pad left.

On the right is a new brake pad with 10 millimeters of pad left. I never allow the brakes on my own vehicle to even get to 3 millimeters.

Old brake pad on left and new on right