C55 owners! check your spare tire!
12-09-2004, 07:34 PM
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C55 owners! check your spare tire!
My wife had a blowout and when the tow truck came to put the spare tire on it was FLAT!!! The car's 2 months old and the spare it flat. Unbelievable.
If anyone wanted to know what a new back rim costs it is $900. + $300 for the tire and I'm out $1200+.
What a bad day, Scott
If anyone wanted to know what a new back rim costs it is $900. + $300 for the tire and I'm out $1200+.
What a bad day, Scott
12-09-2004, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sfrolich
My wife had a blowout and when the tow truck came to put the spare tire on it was FLAT!!! The car's 2 months old and the spare it flat. Unbelievable.
If anyone wanted to know what a new back rim costs it is $900. + $300 for the tire and I'm out $1200+.
What a bad day, Scott
If anyone wanted to know what a new back rim costs it is $900. + $300 for the tire and I'm out $1200+.
What a bad day, Scott
The spare is a collapsable spare tire - there's an air compressor under it, where the tools are, that inflates the collapsed spare to the proper pressure - then you put it on.
Kind of wierd for MBZ to do that - but that's the way it is apparently.
12-09-2004, 08:03 PM
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'15 E350 4M Sport
Originally Posted by neoprufrok
Its actually supposed to be that way.
The spare is a collapsable spare tire - there's an air compressor under it, where the tools are, that inflates the collapsed spare to the proper pressure - then you put it on.
Kind of wierd for MBZ to do that - but that's the way it is apparently.
The spare is a collapsable spare tire - there's an air compressor under it, where the tools are, that inflates the collapsed spare to the proper pressure - then you put it on.
Kind of wierd for MBZ to do that - but that's the way it is apparently.
Rgds,
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12-09-2004, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by noka
Maybe he means it was flat after attempting to inflate it.
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12-09-2004, 08:26 PM
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'15 E350 4M Sport
Originally Posted by sfrolich
My wife had a blowout ... back rim costs ... $900. + $300 for the tire ...
Rgds,
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12-09-2004, 08:29 PM
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'15 E350 4M Sport
Originally Posted by neoprufrok
In that case, I apologize for being presumptuous!
BTW, these Vredestein inflatable spares are the same used in some Porsche models.
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12-09-2004, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by neoprufrok
Its actually supposed to be that way.
The spare is a collapsable spare tire - there's an air compressor under it, where the tools are, that inflates the collapsed spare to the proper pressure - then you put it on.
Kind of wierd for MBZ to do that - but that's the way it is apparently.
The spare is a collapsable spare tire - there's an air compressor under it, where the tools are, that inflates the collapsed spare to the proper pressure - then you put it on.
Kind of wierd for MBZ to do that - but that's the way it is apparently.
Scott
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