RE: Mercedes-AMG C63 S Coupe: UK drive

[st4]

Ares said:

Dude, if that is what you want, your cars are dull. You have the same criteria as my 76yr old dad (plus caravan towing prowess).

I want excitement, I want to get home with the desire to turn around and do the journey again. I want to feel like I'm connected to the car. I want to feel like the car is alive. I want my heart rate to jump 40bpm just looking at the car. Jump another 40 bpm when I start the car, and get to 40 bpm higher still once I've taken it down a great twisty, open moorland road. I want to not be able to avoid looking back at the car after I've parked it with a smile on my face. I want to fking love my car.

I certainly don't want to get out and think 'that was pleasant'.

My god Stephen, you are 34 yrs of age. fking act it. Live life beyond beige and comfortable or you'll wake up at 40yrs old wearing a beige cardigan lusting over a pair of beige tartan slippers.

Dude, you need to get laid. HTH

[R400TVR]

flatso said:

The car looks absolutely rockin’. Just went on YT to check out some sound videos of the V8 and as expected it sounds awesome..BUT...I really HATE those crackle & pop farting sounds.

It just sounds like it has indigestion and clogged intestines. Not attractive at all.

What happened to good sounding, refined, growling muscular sounding cars?
These childish flatulance cracks ruin the sound track.
Is there any possible way to get rid of these cheezy ass noises?

I'm glad it's not just me, then! It's a silly fashion, and serves no purpose. My Chimaera used to do similar on the overrun, but not all the time, and that was made by an ancient design of V8 which didn't use all of its fuel. There is no reason that a modern design would leave unburned fuel to head into the exhaust.
Please stop it!

[playalistic]

It’s really simple - just drive the car in comfort mode and it doesn’t make those noises. Even with the exhaust on loud. It only pops and bangs in sport and above.

[off_again]

playalistic said:

It’s really simple - just drive the car in comfort mode and it doesn’t make those noises. Even with the exhaust on loud. It only pops and bangs in sport and above.

Yup. That’s why it has a comfort mode!

I understand from the tuning community that the number one thing that customers ask for is to make it louder, so adjust the timing and fueling to make it pop and bang more! So it there is one that does it a lot, chances are it’s a tune that’s been loaded.

And to be honest, even in Sport or Sport+ mode, it’s only going to make a lot of noise if you rev it pretty hard and then let off. Then it makes the noise, otherwise it’s pretty quiet anyway. The sports exhaust is only a controllable flap (I understand) and doesn’t do anything anyway.

[Tim bo]

playalistic said:

It’s really simple - just drive the car in comfort mode and it doesn’t make those noises. Even with the exhaust on loud. It only pops and bangs in sport and above.

I struggle to get it to pop and bang in Sport. I can only get it to do so regularly in Sport +. Although I'm reluctant to call them pops and bangs. Pops and bangs are what little 4-pots do like the Golf R. The V8 equivalent from the C63 coupé are more like deep, booming, miniature explosions.

So ...
Comfort mode (no exhaust mode selected) for background V8 growl but generally quiet
Sport mode (exhaust mode selected) for much more aggressive and guttural growl but no booming miniature explosions
Sport + mode (exhaust mode on by default with +) same as Sport but with booming miniature explosions.

Edited by Tim bo on Friday 22 March 07:34