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Originally Posted by Zacharias
I used to think that as well, but I can assure you the 15" w124 steelies are sitting on my TD in the driveway right now and are fine.
Also lots of folks are running w124/ w210 15" and 16" alloys now on w123s.
To the person who asked about running snows on aluminum/alloy wheels: there is no safety running snows on those wheels, per se, the issues are (1) if you are taking them on and off the wheels every winter, you are spending extra money to do it, over a few years you will amortize the cost of a used set of wheels and (2) the chances of damaging a wheel from curbing during the winter is way more than during the summer. Better to ruin a steelie than an alloy.
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this is good to know. I assume the hubcaps will not fit while mounted on the W123... I guess the steel is thin enough to clear the tie rod mount on the 123... but I thought it would hit the rubber... interesting.
I also wonder if the C class wheel would fit? all c class cars come with a steel spare, and matching lugs... maybe hunt one down and try it?