"Very Unusual" Merc CLS55 AMG

[Watchcame430]

You get slightly too close to a very low kerb on the inside of a bend you cut slightly too fine, quite slowly, and it pinches the tyre wall, and half-a-mile up the road the tyre is flat, and the space saver needs pumping up with a compressor, and you leave the lights on while you use it, and by the time you've finished there's not enough in the battery to start the engine, so you have to walk the half-mile back home to get your wife's car to jump-start yours, then go and fetch her and her friends, all full of drink and bonhomie, from the Christmas party they've been to, and drop them all off, all after 11 o'clock at night, and it's just above freezing, and raining, and boy! are you p****d off with the whole b***y thing by the time you finally get home.

(SAAB 9-5, and me; that's how I know... The wheel was barely marked.)

Not a good night! I don't let my wife out to avoid such ordeals

It was a bit of a tongue in cheek comment because I know it can happen ... I have been very very lucky a couple of times where the tyre has taken it and the wheel survived but often I see cars that have more kerb damage around the rim than not. That I find hard to understand. There is a Porsche Cayenne on ebay that barely has any alloy wheel left from kerbing ... i am not sure how the tyre is even attached!

 

[John]

How do you kerb alloy wheels anyway?

Looking at scantily/tightly-clad curves usually.

Not seen any whilst near kerbs in the E.

Kerbed same wheel twice in the same place on two different occasions, for the same reason in my previous 9-5...

 

[mercedescl500]

Looking at the original purchase invoice even Merc dealers can't spell 'COMAND.'

This is because COMAND is an acronym.


Acronym Definition

COMAND COckpit MAnagement and Navigation Device (Mercedes-Benz)

 

[chriscls]

Update for you guys, looks like a dealer bought this, now trying to make a profit lol

2006/55 MERCEDES CLS 55 KOMPRESSOR 5.4 V8 AMG AUTO SAN MARINO BLUE PX SWAP SWOP | eBay

 

[Jukie]

Looks like the same seller to me, comparing the ads.

 

[chriscls]

Looks like the same seller to me, comparing the ads.

so it is, never checked just thought as the prices are different, apparently 1st sold for 10k now he selling for over 13k

 

[AMGeed]

so it is, never checked just thought as the prices are different, apparently 1st sold for 10k now he selling for over 13k

Not worth much more than £8k IMHO. Needs another £1k buying decent wheels too. One to avoid.

 

[chriscls]

Not worth much more than £8k IMHO. Needs another £1k buying decent wheels too. One to avoid.

wheels are horrid, to be fair, they could sell for £500 to a car that would suit them.

 

[Simon_M]

Nasty, that has been on eBay a few times I think.