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Originally Posted by JimFreeh
These are the hot ticket for the W113 crowd.
Most desirable are the ones from a W108/W109 V-8.
14 X6 inch
Late production W123 cars also had them in 5.5 and 6 inch widths.
The smaller width wheels have a solid grey circle on the raised hub where you would typically snap on a small hubcap for a US car, larger wheels have a dashed circle at same location.
Caps for these wheels had a different retaining clip, but you can swap these clips around, hubcap is the same.
Hubcap is the style from 1968 on, but the early caps are chromed steel, later ones are stainless steel.
Jim
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The only alloy plain rims came on W126's and can bought new from mercedes . W108's and W109's never came with any alloy plain rims and Alloy light weight wheels ( bundt) were an option only in the last part of W109-108 production. The Wide steel rims are 6.5 as fitted to my 6.3. I run 225x14" tyres but will soon go to 15's as 14" tyres are being edged out by manufacturers and high performance 14's haven't been made for years.
ALL the large hubcaps are stainless, even the small finny caps were stainless,I have never ever seen a chromed mercedes Hubcap on a post war mercedes.
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Originally Posted by twentyfivemike
and wanted to upgrade/downgrade to the hubcaps
for a more classic look.
Definitly an upgrade! Never mind the extra weight; it's not a race-car.
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Nothing at all to with racing,the steering definately feels different when you down grade to steel rims and the change is not pleasant. It's OK if drive on straight roads at 60 kmh,but in that case you are better off buying a Toyota or a push bike.
Don't try to find an argument in favour of steel wheels because if there was one Daimler engineers would not have designed the light alloy wheel or allowed it's use in the first place, would they?