BGTHEMOGUL

I've spent the last 2 days and endless hours (literally 5 hours or so a day) looking up 2007 S550's on Ebay, Cars.com, and Autotrader with no luck finding what I'm looking for.

I decided to start a thread on where YOU found your car. Was it online? Through a friend? At an auction?

Maybe I'll get some ideas or places to look that I haven't thought of or checked yet.

Thanks!

kryl0n

bought mine off a friend.

TDwayne69

Use the MBUSA CPO section and I'm sure you will find one, I was at my preferred dealership today and the had an 2008 S550 with the AMG appearance package and 4 Matic.

Try this link;
http://www.mypreownedmercedes.com/matrix.php

BGTHEMOGUL

Both of your cars look great. TDwayne I'm planning on on doing mine very similar to yours. Almost identical actually.

TDwayne69

Here's a link to my photo album;

https://mbworld.org/forums/members/t...-07-750li.html

BGTHEMOGUL

Looks awesome bro. Those are 22's right? What size tires on there?

TDwayne69

Yes there 22s, the front tires are 22/30/245 and the rear are 22/25/295.

BGTHEMOGUL

Did you have to roll the fenders or did you have any problems there?

TDwayne69

It's more dependent on the rims than the tires, I didn't have any issues with the wheels that's on my Sig. However, I did have to get the my fenders slightly rolled with my new wheels.

BGTHEMOGUL

Anything in specific I should know to ask when purchasing 22" wheels to avoid having to roll the fenders?

TDwayne69

You just have to make sure you purchase a repeatable brand wheel and for the most part they should know the specifications for the car. I still have the set of wheels from the my Sig and pretty soon I'm going to post them for sale. The wheel I have on the car now, only rubbed sightly (but enough for me to address the issue). I think if you stick close to a wheel that is 22X9 in front and 22X10 in the rear you won't have any issues.

BGTHEMOGUL

Great, thank you for the help.

irieblue

3 questions..

What tire pressure are you running on the 22's?
Has it affected the MPG?
Have you changed the pads as yet?

CL55_Serge

I run 43-44 PSI cold which gets up to 48 in current weather hot. I lower it a bit in the summer so I hit roughly 48-50 PSI when hot. I keep the high PSI to protect the rims as much as possible. Whomever had this car before me these these wheels on it in chrome, and I just changed the rear pads at 25k miles, I'm guess front where replaced before the 25k mark. Definitely I feel that the S550 calipers are small and it would have been nicer to have a bigger braking system. Tons of brake dust...

transferred

from a friend...always bought new before but i knew the history so it was a no-brainer...

w221 is stunning btw... waiting for the same friend to sell

-Rob

dbtk

On leasetrader.com. Original leaser gave me $5000 to take over the lease at $1280 including tax.

dadesidon

bought mine off another MBWorld-er...love it =)

RobertM

I found mine by making a phone call to one of the local dealerships. I live in south florida and there a a lot of dearlerships here.

I looked for 3 weeks or so before I found one. I was at the auction grounds that day (2 days before the auction) and only found cars that had issues. I could not believe the quality of the cars that I saw there. On my way home, called a local dealership that I totally forgot about and they had EXACTLY what I was looking for. Drove 2 hours and purchased it within 15 minutes.

REGARDING the wheels,
I installed 21" HRE 943R a couple of weeks ago. I know that most of the guys install 22's. BUT if you have the abilty to order a set, I would highly recommend 21's. I called all the TUNERS and asked them a ton of questions. ALL of the tuners RENNTECH, BRABUS . . . . . CEC etc all recommends that 21's work the best (no fender issues, no rubbing, no . . . . . . . . ., BUT 22's will fit.

The S is my wifes car (kid machine -tooling around our daughters 6 and 4 years old). I almost pulled the trigger on 22's but I knew, that I / we would have future issues. All of her cars have had after market wheels and she is very good at being careful. I drive the car once a week and on the weekends. I LOVE that car

REGARDING PSI
I run 40 psi (cold) all the way around, accound to RENNTEch etc. . . . . . . .