R. Range

Traded my E earlier this week and kept the aftermarket wheels. These wheels are two years old and in good condition and have brand new tires (maybe 400 miles on them). Here are some pics I took of the wheels on the car a couple of months ago, and I can take some more of them off the car if need be. No curb rash, although they have a few very small nicks from flying gravels etc. (not many and not noticeable unless you look very closely). I have not kept the insides of the barrels clean, as I'm fairly ****, but not that ****. The tires are General Exclaim UHP's, which I decided to give a try after reading about how wonderful they were on Tirerack. In my very limited experience with them they seemed to drive about as well as the PS2's I took off, but it's hard to tell for sure in a few hundred miles of interstate driving.

Two things in the interest of full disclosure: after I had the new tires put on I noticed a small vibration in the steering wheel around 50-55 mph. I had no vibration with the PS2's prior to the switch, so I'm confident it's not a wheel problem, but I never had a chance to get back by the tire store to have them rebalanced. I assume one or both of the fronts are a little out of balance. The other thing is that these wheels, like I think all flat lip wheels, have a concave inner barrel, which will collect water in the rain and make them noticeably out of balance at higher speeds (say over 60 mph). This was not a big deal to me because I only have a 20 mile commute and usually drove something else in the rain anyway, but if you live in Seattle and plan to drive the car every day on the highway, you may not want a flat lipped wheel.

First $2,500 plus shipping and they're yours. PM me or call me at 423-963-9300.

Ronnie

FASN8N

Ronnie,

Looks nice, good luck with the sale!
Bart

Hardrivr

hey, I've seen that driveway before, in fact I think I've bought a car that used to park on that driveway! So what did you replace the E55 with????

R. Range

Hey Jerry, haven't heard from you in a while! Traded her on an '07 Z06. Different car but still lots of fun. Hope you're doing well.

Ronnie

Hardrivr

Yea, been busy trying to grow my business as well as my two little boys... they are now 3 1/2 and 16 months... but things are well.

Jerry

j_belll

nice, good luck w/ sale! too bad they're not 20s

aganzon

Thanks in advance.

R. Range

Here are some more pics I took yesterday now that they're off the car. I went over the lips carefully, and the only thing I found were a few very tiny nicks (like pinhead size) and a small chip on the inside edge of one rear wheel that I took a close up picture of from 6 inches or so away (which you can see below). I'm probably being way too picky here as these are obviously used wheels and this stuff wouldn't show up unless someone stuck their face up to the wheel, but I always like to know even small defects if I'm buying something. I think anyone would be very pleased with the wheels' appearance, and I also forgot to mention that they do come with chrome lugs that I had to buy separately for $100--Iforged uses cone seat lugs and the stock lugs are ball seat, and frankly the stock lugs would look horrible in these shiny wheels anyway.

R. Range

And here's a shot of the tire tread on the UHP's.

Navit

those are nice goodluck with the sale

SaMaS

nice looking wheels i wish i did not bought mine...

R. Range

Several people have asked about the tire sizes. They are 245/35/19 front and 275/30/19 rear, and there are no rubbing issues as these are virtually identical to the stock outer diameters (+1 sizing).

vjcchs12

do you know the offset and rim width? will they fit a CLK55 w209

R. Range

The widths are 8.5 front and 10 rear, but I don't know the offsets. I do however have a W209 CLK in my garage, so I suppose I could find out.

vjcchs12

if you can that would be great

R. Range

It looks like it can be done, but the guy who did it in the first thread below says that he had to have the bolts (not the wheels) machined a little to work correctly with the W211 wheels, because apparently the W209 uses 12mm bolts and the W211 uses 14mm bolts. According to the last post in the second thread the offsets are ok.

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...ght=e55+wheels

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...ght=e55+wheels

R. Range

Bump. Lots of interest but no money so far.

tphan619

Please PM price for shipping to Los Angeles, CA

R. Range

PM sent.

R. Range

Thought these were sold but it didn't work out. I'm getting ready to put them on ebay, but let me know if you're interested.

R. Range

Here's the ebay link. I can end the auction early if I make a deal with someone.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=320153174654

aganzon

complimentary bump

Best of luck with the sale!!!

R. Range

Thanks Albert.