I BOUGHT A CHEAP MERCEDES A CLASS
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Not sure what is worse, the fact they've traded that shitbox in or they've bought one of your cars to treat the same way 😳😂😂😂
I’d be asking a few questions of your colleague that paid £1200 for this!
Haha yea
No bonus this year, Specsavers might help.
More training required!!!
Honestly
I hope it was a prank!
Think the first thing you should do, is have a word with your colleague who paid that much for it! Its shocking how some people treat their cars
I think Onslow was the former owner judging by the condition and screws in the rear bumper.
😂
Love how honest these reviews are great to watch.
Almost skipped this one due to disliking these cars but glad I didn’t good video had me laughing 👍🏻😂
Glad you enjoyed it
Same here.
Probably the funniest video yet
Never liked the look of this generation A Class
@@xxxxxxxx3476 if it wasn’t such a nail, a tidy 2011/2 A Class with 88k would be worth £3495 or Certainly £2995 retail
@@xxxxxxxx3476 A Mercedes badge on that car is meaningless, Mercedes should be ashamed that they put their name on those cars
The previous owner obviously took the kitchen chair apart, they then used the screws to fix the rear bumper. Just to think, that was somebody’s pride and joy once.
What's wrong with it? Good repair
a main dealer did that to a car i had on bringing it in for a brake fluid change .
You need to drop it off at your colleagues house and post the key through his letter box 😇
Someone gave £1200 for that! I must get mine valued, it might pay for a SLK280 lol
as you say in the video it is a good representation of how carvertical works.
They take your money and give you fals or no information, apart from the stuff you can aquire from free car check apps as well, You really should reconsider promote them on your channel for your own good.
Just turning on that air-con had me shouting "NO, DON'T!!" I did the same check on an old Astra once, and inhaled a vent full of foul-smelling bacteria that had me feeling like c**p within 24 hours... Took another 5 days to recover!
Mercedes A Class - Pestilence Edition. The sight of that car is mortifying. I almost threw up seeing the sight of the interior….!!!
I actually just bought this as my first car. Bought a 2009 elegance model for 3.4k and the insurance is comparable to a smaller engine ford fiesta. Might not be the nicest car on the outside by any means but the higher spec cars are nice inside and have a good build quality
And they're absolutely god awful reliability wise.
@@cartouchator so far its all good. Time will tell
You described it so well I think I can smell it from here on the far side of the Irish sea!
If I close my eyes, so can i
I have bought and sold many of this W169! Great smal cars
It looks like a mini Vito! Such a shame Matt as I’m pretty sure this was a good little motor at
one point. Really irritates me when folk don’t maintain their vehicle properly. I’m no angel on the cleaning front but my car always gets full maintenance and doesn’t smell. Loved the “eye rub” moment! 😂 Q: is this the worst PX you have ever had?? Great video again Matt. Top notch 👌
I have to be honest I’d LOVE to see you give it some love and restore it to its former glory, the poor thing deserves it 😭 although a person with business sense would probably disagree 😂
or a person with taste O_o
the old a class has a special place in my heart, its the car i grew up in :)
I'm going to be making a video on w169 ownership shortly because this is a very unusual car and it would be helpful for people to know about them before they buy. Because a lot of them are either knackered or ticking time bombs. If you shop wisely and you repair them in the right places, you end up with a car that's 2 mm shorter than a Ford KA with an interior that is as roomy as a C-Class. It might look like a Honda jazz, but it's probably one of the most cleverly engineered cars MB have ever put out. They are pretty unique and have some features and designs that makes citroëns look tame and standard.
I had one of the early "A" classes , W reg. Brilliant commuter car , good high driving position , ran like a Swiss watch. Cleaned & hoovered once a week and regularly maintained , no trouble at all. Great little car. It was quite a quirky car at the time especially with the wavy dash and I loved it , maybe that's why I have a BMW i3 at present!!
Nice to see an original design and the confidence to produce it. The current A Class doesn't appeal to me at all visually, looks a very generic hatchback which could be anything but happens have a Mercedes grille grafted on, seems so dull after the original.
I just bought a first gen A Class and shipped it from the UK to here in Canada. Mine is an A170 CDI manual long wheelbase. Great car.
Strip it out, High peak does Demo derby.
Gets rid of the smell and you have fun.
Win Win!
Part 2 please, would love to see how this one ends up. I'm sure you'll turn it round. edit - just saw the end! 🤣😂
We had a black 58 Reg we sold it in march for a Countryman SD. We also had a blue V reg very early 2000. Miss them both
old man had one of these for a few years , only realised how bad it was when he got a honda jazz , so many faults from factory is unreal but then again this era of merc is fit for the bin
Love videos like this, you should show us some more of your disgusting part ex’s. Wouldn’t mind seeing some sort of restoration on it after you’ve sorted everything that needs doing.
Unfortunately I have lots of content if that’s what you want to see 😂
Yes haha it’s good to see what non car people do to their cars. Thank you also so for not shouting or laughing at your own jokes like the Car Wow man!
Those wood screws are the kind of repair my Dad would’ve done - he had a Tata pickup truck that he replaced the broken mirror glass in by roughly trimming and old bathroom mirror down and glueing it on…..on both wing mirrors 🤣.
The only A-Class ever that made sense. I had one around eight or nine years ago, the underpowered 160 CDI. It was such a lovely car, apart from the corrosion under the door seals and at the bottom of the tailgate. It needed an alternator and there was a leak with the windscreen wash reservoir. People don’t like larger Mercs with the six speed gearbox, but in this car it is an absolute delight. The fuel economy was unbelievable mostly mid-fifties. The interior is high quality and the driving position is great. My only problem was that it feels like a feminine car. They are absolute bargains these days and I would consider buying one as a cheap daily driver.
awful build quality in my experience to be honest
@@user-te1le7ck6b I had a couple of 204 C-classes, a 211 E-Class and my current daily driver is a 2013 E-Class estate. Considering that the A-Class is the entry level car, I think it has a quality interior and the build quality is superior to the Polo or anything else from other small cars from that era.
@@ComeJesusChrist can’t say I agree power steering failure costing £1000 and up , weak cv joints and some engine issues on models , don’t think these was even close to polo given price point but each to their own
It's a shame when a car gets like that. EasyRentACar used to use them back when I was working in Amsterdam and flying out there from Luton every week, in the early noughties. If you rented them for the maximum 6 weeks, or whatever it was, it came to about £4.50 a day, so it was cheaper to do that and leave them in the long term parking at Schipol over the weekend than rent a new one each Monday. I found them quite fun to drive, even the A130, and that's saying something as I had an Audi S3 at home at the time. Trouble is, it's a Mercedes, and I can't stand them now.
👋. Hopefully you and all your loved ones are safe and sound. As a matter of fact, I have the same car 😂🤣😂. It's a white A180 CDI, 6 speed manual. Perfect car for driving in a city like Casablanca, Morocco. Excellent car, and it's never afraid of going long distances. Thanks a million for the review 😊.
Sad to see the condition! My wife has a 2007 A170 with 85K. She keeps it like new and it has a full MB history. It’s auto with parking sensors and the only fault we’ve had in 9 years was the key failed last year. Great car - bit different to my SL63!
your frustration is so obvious. it is amazing how you manage to remain classy and try to be upbeat about it..!!!
Hi Matt, i used to have one of these as a company back in the 'noughties' 2003 to be exact, i had a choice of Vectra,Mondeo or the hideous A-Class, me thinking a Mercedes would be a step up in the management role mountain i was climbing at the time, anyway the day the car arrived ,a flat dark red Mercedes Benz A140 Petrol Classic, no word of a lie it was bloomin awful, i was as you imagine extremely disappointed, it had no go in it whatsoever, had no A/C & it had more rattles than Mothercare, i had to endure this ugly car for 7 months,it all turned out well though, a new member of staff was taken on & he ended up with it, me, i ended up with a Peugeot 406 Executive with a 2.0l low pressure petrol engine, that car was superb, moral of the story, be careful what you wish for
A140 would be the first generation W168. Totally different animal. The W169 moved the game on tremendously
Now, that's a definition of an old banger. The reason why most people buy shining new cars on PCP.
Especially with the new shape A Classes majority of them are all on PCP
I feel like some of these may be classed as low peak autos 😂😂
Only joking
Hahah definitely
like an autotrader version of 'the price is right' start the timer . the longer it goes , the lower the price. Hit the buzzer to claim your prize without going over.
£250 is a potential end point
I always appreciate a shout-out to the bucket woman.
Sheridan would approve!
Poor Daddy. Once he's better we'll have him over. One afternoon, For tea & light refreshments. In the garden. The back garden, of course
@@paulie-Gualtieri. Brilliant!
Even that old guy crossing the road couldn't believe what he was seeing!
You seem a lot more sanguine about getting saddled with this total shed than I would be…! Hats off to you you mate. Some you win……🤨
I’m used to it unfortunately. You’ve just got to get on with it
@@HighPeakAutos was waiting for a hand brake turn, the car earned it
Mercedes M266 has issues with timing chain streching, where the hydraulic tentioner cant engage before the oil pressure is built up. That is why you hear that "very healthy" scraching noise from the engine on cold starts. You should not worry about that every single 1.5 or 1.7 or 2.0 has this issue. Its importnat that 2sec after start you stop hearing the chain
It's so sad to see how people treat their cars - they should be on buses! Anyway, a great review - I think you should really go for it and see just how much you can to fix all the flaws and make is saleable.
That interior looks very clean compared to what I see at work
Ha a 'what a croc', also called a moose back when it was tested for launch!
I much preferred the original A Class. Revolutionary and experimental, but interesting. This, however, is not the best example LOL
Love how the flipped one doing the moose test, in 1997. 😂 Had to delay production to fit esp
@@nothingmuch.3014 They did fix the design of the w168 at a massive cost, and it wasn't just ESP. The w169 in this video is a completely different model. And to be fair they were not the only car to fail the moose test. Even now cars are failing the test.
@@99ron30 They're such an odd car. The engine sits diagonally, so that in a crash, it gets pushed under the floor, not into the cabin. Of course this makes them more difficult to work on.
The 168 used conventional suspension at the rear but mounted lengthways rather like a citroën 2 CV. The w169 and the first generation B. Class w245 use a parabolic rear axle with coil springs, They are the only road cars that I know of that do that. The fact that the engine and the gearbox is entirely behind the front wheels makes it a truly front mid-engined car, I can only think of the citroën Maserati SM as having a similar layout.
I've been re-watching some of the older vids and have been struck by how many cars are part-exchanged in a dirty condition. Whenever we have traded in a car I have always washed the outside and vacuumed the interior, as well as polishing the dash and taking out all the bits and pieces that seem to collect in a car over the years. I just couldn't allow a car to be traded in without making the effort to make it presentable and avoid the reaction Matt had when sitting in that Merc.
Time to head out to that dogging location with a can of petrol and a ski mask. Remember to insure it first Mat :D
the seats and carpet would get a good vacuming ( henry would be called on duty followed by charlesto give thenm a power wash then check out the exhaust . pull the engine codes and see whats to see from the underside
My aunt has a 2008 A170 3 door, 5 speed manual, edition trim level, panorama roof, heated seats, parking sensors, leather, just drove it today, bit uncomfy, i mean seats are fine but it's hard over bumps, expected better from MB, but otherwise really like the car
Make sure your auntie keeps hold of that. 2008 would mean a facelift and the three-door (C169) is very rare and the special panorama roof is a piece of art though very complicated to repair. That sounds like a really good spec. I hope it's in a nice colour. Comfort level is greatly dependant on what dampers and wheel configuration the car left the factory with. They have an option of comfort sport or off-road dampers with wheels ranging from 15 in right up to great big 18 in
Just a add to my own reply. It's probably a preface lift because there are no facelifted c169s in the UK as far as I'm aware
@@psions555 ohh i'm from Serbia, car imported from 🇨🇭, it has a bit of a problem with panorama roof, don't know what it is tho, it has a bit of scratches from city driving, but previous owner did that, interior is mint, can send u a pics and videos on ig if u want, and yes, it is a pre-facelift
I enjoy the range and honesty of these reviews. From From six figure cars to three figure cars. Always enjoyable, just as a proper car show should be.
Lol the Lady Captain of our Golf club is Lady Hilary Beaumont. Her husband is the famous Sir Bill Beaumont in the rugby world. She hasn't got one of those ☺️ I like watching your channel. I have a 2003 E270 CDI Avantgarde spec. I'm having all the suspension renewed. It's a labour of love with these old Benz I like the reviews of the cars you have driven. All the best.
I always love your honesty !!! even if you purchase a lemon once in a while 🙏🙏
I don’t understand all the hate,they look way better than anything in the same class,you don’t compare these to proper Mercedes or BMW 1 series,you compare them to cars like Yaris,Jazz,Micra,Etc and it definitely looks and feels much,much better!
And you said you trusted your colleague's evaluation! 🤣 That thing is gross!! 🤮 Well done for braving a test drive 🤣
Famous last words
Your best video yet... and it just happens to be watching you test drive a shithole on wheels, that smells of sick and has wood screws holding the bumper on! Bet the car wash guys loved cleaning that! Hope you've fully recovered 🤣
I can’t believe you actually sat in it. Personally I would have rang the scrap yard gone home and poured a stiff G&T.
These videos are a great laugh Mat! I have experience of cleaning up some neglected cars and filthy steering wheels can initially look like they are just worn👍🏻
I am visiting my parents and my neighbours have 2 of these and I tried to look up review on them earlier today with no luck and now high peaks pops up ...doing the lord work
Glad I could be of assistance
I have that car. With front air suspension, electro-mechanical power steering making both motorway and city drives relaxing, it was a great car.
Shame that it recently had serious engine issues. Other than that, it worked really well.
They don't have air suspension. They have Bilstein B4 dampmatic "dumb" adaptive dampers and then they use a very unusual parabolic rear axle with coil springs. The W169 A class and W245 B class are the only vehicles ever to use this design
Grim car but somehow an upbeat video! I once bought an old Renault Megane for £160 that had similarly stained seats and actual human scabs down the side of the seats. That was about 6 years ago and I still wretch at the thought. It was actually a great car once I fumigated it though!
I'd struggle to justify £1200 for this car but I don't know much about values of this sort of car. I am sure I've seen it on Police Interceptors! Another great video. I love watching videos about crap cars.
11:38 he deffo stole that to sell it to cover the cost of fuel😂
I would replace the mirror.
You will find plenty of them at a car scrap yard.
Replace the rear bumper or have it fixed better.
Four good cheap tires with steel wheels and plastic caps to save money.
I wouldn't worry about the paint
Picked up a 55 plate A150 CDI at auction many years ago. Was a great runaround with a couple of young kids - plenty of boot space for pushchairs etc - but decidedly underpowered! Nonetheless, got it at the right price and sold it on a couple of years later for not much less than I’d paid.
One previous owner, that doesn't give a toss. Probably your worst car to review but video entertaining & enlightening.
Win some lose some I guess. A bumper repaired with woodscrews is a pretty ominous sign! This one is a real shocker and can't blame you for wanting it gone asap! Couldn't you take it to some dodgy area and leave it with the keys in it, in the hope it might disappear? Problem is the car thieves would probably me more discerning.
Absolutely love Mrs bucket can imagine onslow daisy rose and daddy driving up to her house in this while she has guest's 😂
We had one when we had 3 young kids - it was perfect: all but the driver’s seat came out leaving a completely flat floor. It had the clutchless gear change which worked well. The integral boosters worked well. With the rear seats in their forward position (with kids in) a tumble dryer fitted in the boot and it wasn’t the LWB version. The only real gripe I had with it was that the front ARB bushes needed changing more frequently than the oil (assumed this due to Moose Test detuning). So I’m a fan of these cars - but that one looks very very grim.
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Just thought of an idea for you. Can you make a segment on your channel about car stories/general funny ones like you've done recently but with the format of you sitting on a sofa with a cup of tea against the backdrop of a fireplace it would do very well and help boost your subscribers to over 200k!
I remember when I collected a rental car from a no-name rental company once. Opened the door, and it reeked of sweaty socks. I asked for another car, but surprise, surprise, they didn't have another one for me. It's either that or I walk. It got slightly better once I put an air freshener in it.
I'm not sure if £1200 is a good deal. £120 is more like it. I actually like these cars, so I would most definitely consider a decent example of one. But one look at this is enough to make me stay away. You're quite right, I honestly don't understand how people can treat their cars like this.
I can't believe that piece of crap was £1200! You had better luck with that pea green Mazda. Just goes to show, you just pay for the name. Another good video. Love these brutally honest reviews.
My late dad's last car was a black W169 A150 Avantgarde auto, pre facelift 2007 57 reg. It had the same design of alloy wheels as this one is displaying singularly. It was a very decent car, a good package and my dad looked after it very well before he went downhill.
I actually wanted to have the A150 after he passed on - to replace my 2003 Nissan Almera diesel but one of my sisters had first dibs on it. Unfortunately my sister didn't look after it too well. Shortly after I bit the bullet and replaced my Almera with a Hyundai i10, she traded in dad's A150 in for a Vauxhall Mokka diesel! I`m still a bit salty about that. 😕
Burn it. Sack your employee.
Sorry to know the keys to the AMG are so similar to the A class. Loved how you parked the AMG though
what did your colleague say about it? did they not even look at it before giving them 1200 as part ex?
I bet he’s now looking for a new job!
Mate, I don't know hoq you got in that, I would've given it a miss lol Fair play.
Bang goes your colleagues Christmas bonus ,love the wood screws holding bits at the back, we all make mistakes though.
Kill it with fire! Normally after one of your videos I get straight on auto trader. Lol not this time 🤮
Hahah about time there was one
Bought a car from a workmate for £300 , mobile pizza , crumbs and tom sauce and dog hair , took 5 hours to clean inside but still wasnt the best , new brakes and an exhaust and i have had it for over two years, he was going to scrap it , sailed through its mot, mazda 6 , good engine but likes oil
You paid too much
Thought you were gonna save it Matt. I loved these back in the day perfect from racing round the tiny back streets of Sicily.
Years ago I always wondered why Merc didn’t make a great small car other then this , a couple of years later the A class came out but could like the after thought floating screen , I can hate that design of a dash
Tip of the day. When you go to view these cars, take a seat cover with you.
Top drawer video of a (usually) bang average ‘car’. Your optimism is inspiring. 😂 Brilliant as always 👏
This is the 1st video of yours where I actually burst out laughing. The one alloy and your face was absolutely priceless.. that said I would rather put my bare feet into a pair of shoes full of 💩 than own one of these.
The contrast of driver and vehicle is hilarious 😆
Proper fanny magnet that lad X
I won't miss driving this, that's for sure.
I don’t know about the UK but, in Canada, the trend with new drivers is to collect as many air fresheners as possible and often treat car just like this one!
It looks like the petrol station weekly shop exploded in there... not even the Ginsters slice was tough enough to survive.
Another great video, love the honesty and no bullshit. Keep it up, I've been hooked for ages now!
Carvertical is basically the definition of bullshit. Otherwise agreed.
The moment you turned into that parking lot, by judging your face expression, i knew 100 % it would have the engine light on :)))
I bought one last year 06 plate for £400 in black also a day cleaning and touching up 2weeks later it sold for £900 Kerching
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz….” not that one! 🤨
It's crazy to think Mercedes made such a mistake with these and were then so successful with the next generation of A-class. The first gen at least felt slightly innovative and almost funky (In the right colours/spec (which no-one ever chose). There's nothing to like about that, I'd scrap it and remove some misery from the world.
The first owner probably ticked the option box for alloy spare wheels. The problem was, he ticked steel wheels with hubcaps for the other four.
I'd definitely question your staff for accepting that Merc-turd as trade in, they've had you over big time. Be lucky get ya money back on that, can't believe you sat in that without a biohazard suit pmsl
Definitely scrap it for parts, that'd be an embarrassment on the forecourt.
What an absolute nail. Think i would be trading that out to auction. Nothing going for it. Looks like it's been a Deliveroo car
A couple of hours using an ozone generator with the AC on recirculate might get rid of the smell. I hope you can make a quid out of it but I wouldn't have touched that particular car as you have assessed it!
To be fair a lot of dealers sell you a car with barely enough fuel to get you to a filling station.
I have seen inside of a car that was a lot worse in fact the rubbish in the back was up to the seat bottoms as her kids and her just through the rubbish in the back. The house was even worse. Just get rid of it and cut your losses.
£1200!! I paid £500 last year for a tidy one with 9 months Mot and 80k on the clock.
I traded it for a E65 735i which I then traded for my E60 525 M sport which I am chuffed with.
How did anyone at Mercedes approve that design as one of their cars 😂 the interior is hardly nicely designed too
I really dont know
The engines are hard to get to as well, I heard.
Oh another contender for the Hyacinth car would be the Aston Martin Cygnet or whatever it is called. 😂
Love your channel. Please keep it up.
Haha yes you’re right
I hope we get an update on this :-)
On the plus side, y'r trousers go well with the car.
Well as you said on the plus side there's plenty of leg room.. But I can almost smell the interior from my living room.. 🤢