AMG 3-piece's on 500E

[talbir]

The beauty of these w124 500E's is the huge range of wheels they can accept...widths from 8J to 11J and offsets of 10mm to 35mm.....i'm not aware of any other stock MB that can take such a broad range of wheel widths and offsets without modification or spacers !

The black 500E was wearing the AMG Aero I's, and before that the OZ Futuras....but i read an article recently on a Renntech 6.0 500E...that car wore the 3-piece AMGs by OZ Racing (commonly found on the w126 and r129)...albeit this Renntech car had 8.5J's all round rather than the usual staggered set-up of 8.5J front and 10J rear.

I had a spare set of these 3-piece beauties...so took them apart, got the dishes refurbed, got the centres finished in MB color code 040 (which is what the car is ) and used a set of OZ fasteners i had gold plated a while back.

Turned out beautifully.....basically gives the Aero I look but with bigger dishes and with those little jewel fasteners the icing on the cake.


talbir

 

[talbir]

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[liiive_o]

Let me check my shed i might have a set of 3piece amg's lying about somewhere...someones lucky eh!

 

[uchiha]

lovely. Just as nice as the OZs. You keeping these on as part of the conversion?

 

[mercboiuk]

Those wheels certainly look very appealing, Talbir!
However, I've always thought the best alloys you put in this car were the R129 18" AMG slpit rim (8.5J and 10J set up weren't they? ). That's just my preferance, though.

Are these wheels to stay on the car when it receives the Renntech engine?

Darren

 

[MBK]

Wheels look Awesome!!!, My friend has the same wheels on his W124 Cab but the centres colour coded White to match the car (my idea never saw them in white before, but looks amazing) and he has the Gold fatseners too.

 

[pupsi]

Hey Talbir, i thought you said these wheels wouldnt look right on a 500e ey!

 

[talbir]

Well they don't generally look or work great with the 500E...two things that help here is the aggresive lowering of the car and more crucially the 040 black centres with the 040 black car.....


cheers
talbir

 

[talbir]

lovely. Just as nice as the OZs. You keeping these on as part of the conversion?

Yep, these are now staying on....car needs to be as close as possible to Renntech's product.

Whilst the AMG Aero Is look superb too, i want this car to look different to my Hammer, which came from AMG with Aero Is.

cheers
talbir

 

[bolide]

Those are quite cheeky! I approve

Nick Froome

 

[krimat2005]

Your car looks stunning!!! I hope will see it in real one day.
Chris

 

[detomaso]

I am extremely envious of the wheels (and your sig )