Hopefully those of you waiting an eternity for a new Mercedes will be rewarded with a car that has been built to usual Mercedes standards and hasn’t been rushed through to keep the numbers up. I’ve just had a Mercedes GLB 220d AMG-Line Premium on hire for a week and frankly it’s been a nightmare.
On three days the digital instrument cluster wouldn’t illuminate so I had no idea what speed I was doing. The Sat Nav took me to completely the wrong place one day and I had to use Google Maps on my phone to get to where I was going (same postcode inputted). The MBUX system didn’t operate smoothly, it either had a lag or jumped too far ahead. For reasons that I couldn’t work out I kept changing the radio station when I didn’t want to. The icing on the cake was one day when the car decided to go into safe / limp home mode and wouldn’t go above 15mph until I used kick down. Have to say that I was incredibly relieved when the BMW was returned yesterday!