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Originally Posted by P.E.Haiges
Old Navy,
My '80 300SD came with 180R80X14 tires. Even had a tag on the door frame stating that that was original size. Speedo and odo were right on with the 185R80 tires, Also right on with the 205R70 tires. Checked it once out west with road mile markers for 400 miles. Odometer read 400.6 miles. Can't get much closer than that.
I've even run a size different on the front side to side and couldn't tell the difference but I never run different size on rear side to side. Always put the larger size on the right side because road is usually lower on right side.
P E H
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All I can say is manual, MB Tech Data Passenger Cars April '85, says all US 300's had 195's, but manual could be wrong or you have a gray market car.
I sold a bunch of the gray market VW's in late '60's at a VW dealer in LA, those cars had some options (color's is one) that didn't come with US car's and if equipted same way we could sell them cheaper then regular US import cars. These cars were everything from new cars shipped from other countries after being resold for US import, some were referbished used cars, rebuilt euro wrecks and stolen car's in Europe that got shipped to US market. Same happened with MB and BMW car's.
The dealership I worked at was not an authorized VW dealer and I worked there only long enouth to realize that this was not where I wanted to work.
Went to Vic Petimkan(sp) Chevy on Hollywood Blvd from there. Working on the Bvld was a trip,
sold an L88 Corvette to the guy who played the strong man on Mission Impossible. Would you believe Boris Karloff was a reagular customer and would bring his '63 Byscane(sp) 4dr in for service and wait for the car. I got to talk with him on a couple of ocassions.
