I recently bought an S212 and have been reading about issues with a lot of the alloys on those being prone to cracking or bending / buckling easy and either needing repair or scrapping.
Are the W213 wheels still as bad or were they an improvement - I can't really find many reports but wondered what peoples experiences were please.
I like the 5 spoke 18 inch AMG wheels from the 212 era but have been looking at 19s which seems to be bad news for our roads.
I've got the factory 19s on the 2006 Lexus LS460 I have and that's never been an issue.
From what I can read between the lines the AMG wheels especially are soft and quite often require a lot of balancing weights.
I've only ever had one wheel catastrophically fail on me and that was an 18" VW wheel which hit a pothole and caused a resonance which caused the entire wheel to crack away from the hub and sent us off the road.
It sounds like I may be better finding a good refurbishment place to sort out my factory 17s!
The diamond cut seems another matter and from reading the Mercedes WIS / EPC they blame acid wheel cleaners for that.
Are the W213 wheels still as bad or were they an improvement - I can't really find many reports but wondered what peoples experiences were please.
I like the 5 spoke 18 inch AMG wheels from the 212 era but have been looking at 19s which seems to be bad news for our roads.
I've got the factory 19s on the 2006 Lexus LS460 I have and that's never been an issue.
From what I can read between the lines the AMG wheels especially are soft and quite often require a lot of balancing weights.
I've only ever had one wheel catastrophically fail on me and that was an 18" VW wheel which hit a pothole and caused a resonance which caused the entire wheel to crack away from the hub and sent us off the road.
It sounds like I may be better finding a good refurbishment place to sort out my factory 17s!
The diamond cut seems another matter and from reading the Mercedes WIS / EPC they blame acid wheel cleaners for that.