Mercedes Winter wheel & tyre offers

[effbee584]

Did anyone use this service last year?

It seems it was optional for each MB dealer. If so what were the wheels on offer?

Was there a choice of wheel? Would want something that looks OK.
What was the cost? I think I saw £1000 for a set of 17" wheels and tyres, which is reasonable.

Will probably consider this for next winter to drop from 18 to 17 wheels and tyres. Front 18's will probably be due change anyway, and 17's all round will make the ride even better.

Have called two dealers but they didn't offer the service.

 

[Chrishazle]

I bought a set of 16's (flat 7 spoke alloys) with Dunlop winter tyres for my W203 C270 from MB Ashford for £799 fitted, plus they are storing my summer wheels for me. Saw a thread on here (or maybe t'other side) saying MB Bedford were offering the deal, so called MB Ashford who matched it.

IIRC 17's were a lot more expensive - more like £1200, but don't quote me!

What a difference they've made. Last winter I could not get off the driveway even though I'd swept it. This year, 6" of snow unswept, just reversed across it no problem. Winter tyres work!

 

[st13phil]

There's a post on this forum somewhere (it'll be in one of the many "Winter Tyres" threads) that included links to pages on a German MB dealership website that showed all the winter wheel & tyre combinations available at the start of last winter. This will give you an idea of what may be available, but bear in mind that the UK MB dealers running the scheme offered just a subset of what was available in other countries.

Depending upon the exact wheel and tyre combination chosen, 17's were anything from £1,300 upwards for a set but that's not a firm guide to what the prices will be next season.

 

[scottishman2]

A winter wheels thread and no post from Dieselman!! He must be away.....

Anyway, my 17" alloys (limited choice as some 17" would not fit over AMG brakes) and 4 Dunlops were just a shade over £1300.... but they did clean the summer wheels for nothing!!!!

Local bobby was amazed that the AMG would get out the village when we did have some snow... he followed me in his Range Rover just in case.... nice man.

 

[simonegypt]

MB Norwich offered, for the CLK, Alshain 17” £1,305.98 for 4 of 7.5 J, ET 17, fitted up PA3 MO. 225/45R17. Ordered in August, arrived December. A good chunk of cash but there has to be rubber on the road so might as well use something appropriate.
Would've bought steelies but could get 16" over the sport brake callipers. There's always something…

 

[Rory]

There's a post on this forum somewhere (it'll be in one of the many "Winter Tyres" threads) that included links to pages on a German MB dealership website that showed all the winter wheel & tyre combinations available at the start of last winter.

Here it is: http://www.mannheim.mercedes-benz.d... Mercedes-Benz Mannheim-Heidelberg-Landau.pdf

Reifen means tyre on its own, Komplettrader means complete!

I'd have gone for them if I could have got wheels that I thought would look decent on my car, ideally I would have liked to get exactly the same (- nothing special, just 5 broad spokes, 16"). Don't really understand why MB won't let you order (subject to availability, obviously) whichever wheels you want.

I did get winter wheels and tyres for wifey's car, but that's a Honda Jazz.

 

[A210AMG]

SSSssshhh keep it quite guys....


You know who will be here soon telling us its 30 degrees next week and it's not snowed enough in 10 years to warrant winter tyres...

 

[wemorgan]

SSSssshhh keep it quite guys....


You know who will be here soon telling us its 30 degrees next week and it's not snowed enough in 10 years to warrant winter tyres...

Didn't know Michael Fish was on the forum.

 

[effbee584]

Thanks everyone, it seems I'll have to fork out about £1300 fro a set of 17's with little or no choice of wheel design. Wheels alone would be about £1063, Nokian winter tyres about £100 each, so not a lot in it, and I could have a wheel of my choice.
Please don't bother with any more replies.