A guy tells me that you can put 20" wheels on a E320 sport or E500--only those with airmatic. He said you can put 20X8.5 in the front and 20X10 in the rear. He claims to be a maker of a forged 3-piece wheel and he can get the right offsets to make this happen. As proof he has give me the attached pic of an E500 slammed with 20" wheels. Is this guy full of it or is he legit? I hope I have attached the picture correctly.

 

OK those wheels are ugly IMO but hes right, you can fit 20x8.5 in the front, you can even fit 20x9 according to Peter from wheelexperts.

I have heard that with the Airmatic there is more room available for your larger tire used on a 20" application. I have also seen an E240 in indonesia with 20" lowenharts but I am not sure if it has airmatic or not.

 

Thanks for the info. Now I'll start looking at 20" wheels instead of 19". I guess I'll have to call Peter at wheelexperts.

 

I would still go with the 19's instead of the 20's. It's a better fit and ride

 

Better ride? Yes Better fit? Yes. But nothing beats DUB's

 

well i just put 19 inch on my car but it still look kinda small. I suggest that u guys put 20 on your car. If i can exchange to the store, i would change it to 20

 

Well okay heres the thing, if the rim has a lot of "face" then 19's are fine, one rim that i think would look great on an E is the Autocouture Magnifique, the 19's already look big.
Here is an example of 19's on the W210.

 

And heres a 20 on the W211, the chrome makes it a bit difficult to see how big the rim really is. Chrome on this rim is a bit much for me. I like the Silver machined finish.

 

hi tez, did the car lowered on using 20 inch? Because it seems theres not much gap in it

 

It looks like it has been lowered. Not positive though, i got those pics off the autocouture website and i think the W211 pictured is in Japan.

 

Well this is my car sit on 19. I did not lower it but i will do it soon. It still look small though

 

I think they look pretty good. You do need to lower the front alot and the rear a bit. But that is a beautiful color.

 

Yup i need to do a lot of lowering. Anyway do you know how to lower this new E model because they already use the airmatic suspension. we install chip or what? Do you know the progress?

 

There are electronic lowering modules available from brabus, lorinser,kleemann etc. But they cost around 2K.

another way to lower the airmatic equipped cars is with the RBtech or TWS lowrering components (actual Hardware). The TWS one is 500 i think, but you would need to bring your car to SoCal to have it done properly.

 

The first picture is a car that was lowered by The Wheel Supply using their TWS Lowering Kit. The car is on Collectizone 20" wheels.

The lowering is completely adjustable. That E class is probably dropped as low as it can go.

 

Does anybody know where can i lower(good Shop of course) my car in SF Bay area?

 

I called TWS and the module to lower the W211 with airmatic runs about $486 (including installation/labor) and that you could still adjust ride height after the installation of the module.

sf49ers79, if you want to get 20" wheels you can. If you want to sell me your 19" set let me know.

 

JO lets talk in email... can i get your email?

 

SF, I sent you my e-mail via PM.

 

The lowering is completely adjustable. That E class is probably dropped as low as it can go.


How much do you think that first car is lowered? 2/3 inches?
Can you raise it back up to stock height with the TWS kit? Thanks

 

That E class is dropped at least 2.5-3 inches, if not lower. The tire is touching the fender well.

You can still use the airmatic, which means you can raise the height of the car while driving. You keep the original OEM bracket, which they can install and return to the regular height.

 

Thanks a lot!
Using the Airmatic would put it up only about .6 to .75 of an inch I believe. I was wondering if they could set it upwhere it was a low as 2.5 dropped and you could raise it back up to stock or sport height...but I guess that would mean hydros.. =)

 

My experience, even tho I did not actually measure or do anything scientific, was that even tho the car is lowered 2-3 inches, using the airmatic will cause the car to rise back to normal height.

Again, I never actually used a ruler, but from my observation with my S430 which was lowered about 1.5", using the airmatic raised the car back to OEM height.

Just an observation...