Does my Benz have the sport package or not? 🤦🏻♂️
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Does my Benz have the sport package or not? 🤦🏻♂️
Greetings everyone, as I shop for brake parts, I have a slight issue. Trying to figure out what brakes I have. When I first got it, I was told it had the sports package which included the bigger wheels amg and different brakes. I was told I have the bigger cross drilled ventilated brakes. I looked at my vin in vin decoder as now I don’t see that option included for some reason. Y vin is WDDNG71X58A190878. Can someone help me out 🤌 Thank you in advance
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Greetings everyone, as I shop for brake parts, I have a slight issue. Trying to figure out what brakes I have. When I first got it, I was told it had the sports package which included the bigger wheels amg and different brakes. I was told I have the bigger cross drilled ventilated brakes. I looked at my vin in vin decoder as now I don’t see that option included for some reason. Y vin is WDDNG71X58A190878. Can someone help me out 🤌 Thank you in advance
This was the standard S500 set up in Europe. The wheels look to be the regular 18" ones although it doesn't specify design, so either 8.5J 5 spoke all round or the 9 spoke ones either all 8.5J.or 8.5/9.5 stagger.
The 221 AMG wheels are 19" or 20".
Another quick visual clue for "sport" models is the front fog lights. Standard mimic the headlight shape. Sport are round with a chrome bezel.
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That's a belts and braces list for what you're looking for but should answer your question. Carefully check the calipers unless they've been replaced recently. One of my fronts had a seized piston but made no difference to the driving of the car. Also the rears can be prone to seizing following a pad and disc change as the bores can corroded inside.
Note that the S350 has different sized discs so this list is for the S500.
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If you look carefully at the calipers on the front, you will see a stamp of either 335 or 350...that will tell you for sure which you have on the vehicle. You can use this info to match up the correct brake pads.
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From that VIN you have the 4 piston Brembos on the front with drilled and vented front discs and single piston rear calipers again with vented discs.
This was the standard S500 set up in Europe. The wheels look to be the regular 18" ones although it doesn't specify design, so either 8.5J 5 spoke all round or the 9 spoke ones either all 8.5J.or 8.5/9.5 stagger.
The 221 AMG wheels are 19" or 20".
Another quick visual clue for "sport" models is the front fog lights. Standard mimic the headlight shape. Sport are round with a chrome bezel.
This was the standard S500 set up in Europe. The wheels look to be the regular 18" ones although it doesn't specify design, so either 8.5J 5 spoke all round or the 9 spoke ones either all 8.5J.or 8.5/9.5 stagger.
The 221 AMG wheels are 19" or 20".
Another quick visual clue for "sport" models is the front fog lights. Standard mimic the headlight shape. Sport are round with a chrome bezel.
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small front brakes 320mm, non vented rear
large fronts 335mm and vented rears - I believe are the "sport" ones and def std on LWB models in europe
silly cheap sliding junk with double bubble calipers up front on real AMG ones
could be wrong on the numbers in mm
AMG ones I guess designed to keep pad temps down - but doesn't explain no brakes from molten discs so why bother ?
large fronts 335mm and vented rears - I believe are the "sport" ones and def std on LWB models in europe
silly cheap sliding junk with double bubble calipers up front on real AMG ones
could be wrong on the numbers in mm
AMG ones I guess designed to keep pad temps down - but doesn't explain no brakes from molten discs so why bother ?
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My brain is so scrambled possibly due to the new cancer medication I’m on thus maybe that’s why I’m not getting it exactly lol . If I take a few pics of them and post them, would that help? This is also keeping me busy which is great as I need to be distracted but also, I love this car lol. I have a decent sized collection of some rather nice sports monsters including a 2025 BMW M4 AWD comp which was suppose to be my daily driver however, this W221 is still my daily 🙌🙌🤌🤌😂😂. I found some AMG calipers online and they said it would fit my W221 however, I’m not so sure they would. So that’s why I’m trying to get to the bottom of this. I’m in NY and summer doesn’t last very long here so I’m thing to enjoy it before the snow comes. Sorry for long ramblings 🫥. I just want this car back in the road with some nice new brakes 🙌🙌🙌
Go to your local MB parts counter, with your VIN and ask them for a quote for the correct discs and pads for your car. This will give you the correct part numbers for the parts your car should have.
You can then buy them or shop around knowing you have the correct information.
Whilst the like of FCP or Pelican Parts are pretty reliable, vin checkers on eBay/Amazon/Facebook marketplace etc are at best inaccurate and at worst deliberately misleading.
