silver50

I recently bought a set for the R129 ET31 8x18. Had planned on a CNC/diamond cut refurb.

An in-depth chat yesterday to a wheel restorer, he was convinced a lot of the earlier Monoblock wheels didn’t originally have polished type flanges/lips.

I’m over 50 years old and always loved older AMG’s. He got me thinking that perhaps early 90’s AMG Monoblocks maybe didn’t have polished lips. I do think that by the mid 1990’s however, all probably did.

My memory is hazy on this but was there not maybe a choice to choose polished type lips or not? I’ve a nagging feeling there might have been both.

Thoughts? I’m also quite interested to know when the Monoblock II first appeared on the scene.

I think these wheels I have are possibly earlier wheels than some are in the same size.

TIA

Ahmed

The Monoblock Type 2's did not have much of a polished lips, but they were definitely polished.
The BBS manufactured Split Rims did though, those were polished much more and were specific to the R129 chassis.

Ahmed

Here's my car with the Monoblock Type 2 wheels
8x18 Front
9x18 Rear

silver50

Lovely 208 Designo?

Someone has a nice selection of rims in those pics! I’ve actually got a brand new (but old now) set of replicas of the 8.5 + 10 inch AMG splits. pic attached

The above of mine are are a 129 part number so must’ve originally been specifically for the R129.

The more I’ve thought about it since posting I am fairly sure I recall seeing the wheels offered when new in both an overall plain finish and a polished lip finish. I bet this was around the early 90’s. This may of course have been a European/climate thing.

Anyone on which year Monoblock II’s came in? Around 1993 maybe?

Faast

Anyone knows of a good shop in US that can refinish these to the factory specs (color/finish)?