OK, so when I got my 92 300TE, I noticed the right rear wheel had the lugs protruding past the face. No big deal, figured it was the wrong lugs. Had to pul them to get to my toasted rear wheel bearing today and decided to swap with the correct lugs on my parts car. The lugs on the parts car are identical. After checking a couple of wheels, I looked at the wheel itself and the pockets for the lugs are shallower than any other wheels I have by about 3/8" (9mm). Any idea what this wheel is from and does anybody need it? I have six more between the parts car and spares for the parts car and my wagon. I'm just going to pull it and have the new tire swapped over.

Speaking of wheel bearings, looks like 143,000 miles is the engineered limit for Mercedes wheel bearings. I just did the fronts last week because I saw grease on the center cap of the driver side front wheel. Now the right rear is gone. Noticed it making noise, so jacked it up and gave that wheel a wiggle... rattle, rattle.

IIRC the difference is that the shallow wheel pocket was on 4-Matics??? How do the offsets compare? Look at the part #'s and offsets inside the wheel beginning with ET_ _.

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Offsets appear to be identical, just counterbore depth. I'll run down to my friend's tire shop and get it swapped out next week.

What Sugar Bear said. Check part numbers, size and offset to be sure you have a matched set of wheels... or confirm you don’t. I think your TE should have ET 48 or 49 (48- or 49mm offset). My guess is you have an ET 21.5 or 25 wheel from a 107 or 126 in the mix.

Sixto
98 E320s sedan and wagon

Will do. Either way, I'm going to take it to my tire buddy and have it swapped for one of my known 124 wheels while I am doing the transmission swap and rear wheel bearings. If anybody needs it in the southeast area, it will be available cheap.