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Chrishazle said:What's "work"???
I decided to retire rather early - 8 years ago, and still have to wait another 4+ years for my bus pass!!
Last year the main drag through our village was cleared pretty quickly, but our close was not - so I had hell getting the car off the driveway and the 300 yards to the main drag. Even worse was trying to get the beast turned round so I could reverse into the driveway when we got back - had quite a few of our neighbours out with shovels etc to help!
At least I have the old set of wheel bolts (as well as lockers) so my nice new ones will not get salted.
Just to tag on to the end of this thread, my Portsmouth MB dealer has stated that as a result of recent meetings a German chap from MB corporate they will be initiating the winter tyre swap and storage scheme. As yet no prices, but when I asked whether I would be able to stick some 16incher steel wheels on my 2009 E250cdi avantgarde to replace the existing 18inch wheels, he was adamant that this would not be mechanically possible "due to the large callipers", and that I would need to stick 18 inchers on. This sounds unlikely to me. Is he correct? Is there any problem with sourcing 16 inch steels for the car.
On a side note, the manual states that the 235/35/18 wheels cannot be fit with snow chains. The dealership admits to having no knowledge in this regard. Has anyone any experiences of exceptions to this, like the Trak or Spider chains?
Just for context, we don't get a lot of snow in Hampshire but we're near Grenoble for 2 weeks over Christmas and might get lucky or unlucky with the snow.
Complete carp. Check the manual where you'll find that 16's with the correct offset are fine on not only the W212 E250CDI but also the E350CDI.biggusmickus said:...but when I asked whether I would be able to stick some 16incher steel wheels on my 2009 E250cdi avantgarde to replace the existing 18inch wheels, he was adamant that this would not be mechanically possible "due to the large callipers"
Just spoken to MB Ashford and ordered a set of 16" alloys with Dunlop winter tyres for my W203 C270 - £799.01, plus they will store my summer wheels for me. RESULT! Aparently Lookers (who own MB Ashford, Maidstone etc) are getting a load of winter wheels in for Kent.
I would definatly contact MB Bedford for a price. Just ask for the Parts Supervisor Graham (I think)
He also said the 16" wheels will fit the lkatest C350CDi fine. Is that true?
MB UK in its wisdom seems to select a subset of the german pricelist for the UK market. So where a german customer could have a choice of up to 3 or 4 different tyres for a particular wheel, the UK customer might see only 1 or 2. Also the best deals don't seem to make it to the UK - surprise, surprise!
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