what sort of tires/brands are you buying?
On 1/1/2011 9:40 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Since Eurotire went away, I've found I can buy tires at local
dealers and get them installed for less than any online price +
shipping + mounting+stems+balancing.
Yea, next time I buy tires I am going to order
Last tires I bought were noname from the junkyard for the van. They
seem to be ok. Don't know who made them.
Before that I bought mostly Bridgerock/Firerock including blizzaks
and Continental. Take your best online deal (add in the
shipping+mounting+stems+balancing) to the local guy and
: [MBZ] I just discovered something about the '94 E420 ...
Since Eurotire went away, I've found I can buy tires at local dealers
and get them installed for less than any online price + shipping +
mounting+stems+balancing.
Yea, next time I buy tires I am going to order them from that tire
buyer
get the general altimax
On 12/31/2010 6:38 PM, Craig wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:24:21 -0600 Dieselhead126die...@gmail.com wrote:
In my limited experience Joke-ohama are terrible tires. I will never
have one on anything I own.
They seem to run fine on dry roads, but now that winter is
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
get the general altimax
Here's something intereesting. I checked with Max's new online tire vendor,
Tirebuyer.com. They have very similar customer survey numbers for Altimax HP and
Continental DWS, except the Altimax averages 4.0 on a scale of 1 to 5 for light
snow
and having a bucket
frozen solid...
-Curt
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:21:27 -0500
From: Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] I just discovered something about the '94 E420 ...
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Yea, next time I buy tires I am going to order them from that tire
buyer website, they are cheaper and have free shipping. Wonder how
long that will last??
On 1/1/2011 4:07 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
get the general altimax
Here's something intereesting. I checked with
Since Eurotire went away, I've found I can buy tires at local dealers
and get them installed for less than any online price + shipping +
mounting+stems+balancing.
Yea, next time I buy tires I am going to order them from that tire
buyer website, they are cheaper and have free shipping.
Craig wrote:
It has non-standard wheels!
According to Tire Rack, a 1994 E420 has 235/60-16
If that's correct, you have a wide variety of truck and SUV tires to choose from
in that size.
What's the doorframe sticker say on it?
Here's an H-rated tire with good snow ratings in the survey:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:06:18 -0500 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Craig wrote:
It has non-standard wheels!
According to Tire Rack, a 1994 E420 has 235/60-16
If that's correct, you have a wide variety of truck and SUV tires to
choose from in that size.
That's strange. I went to Tire
Those wheels are off of a SLK or something like that
On 12/30/2010 10:48 PM, Craig wrote:
It has non-standard wheels!
Here I have been looking for tires of the 195/65-15 size, for
6.5 J x 15 H 2 rims.
Our E420 has 215/55-16 tires, which of course means it has 16 rims!
Now I wonder what width
the 94-95 still has the same 15 wheels, his cars has the updated
wheels off a later car
On 12/30/2010 10:55 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
Everything post W124 had 16 rims from the factory -- W123 was
the last one with 15's, I think. Maybe 15 on the W126, I'm not
sure, but a 94 will have 16 rims
Craig wrote:
Here's an H-rated tire with good snow ratings in the survey:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=YokohamatireModel=Geolandar+A%2FT-Spartnum=36HR6GEOATS
Thank you for your work, Mitch, in looking up this information. I'll have
to peruse the various models.
That
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:19:39 -0600 Kaleb C. Striplin
ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Those wheels are off of a SLK or something like that
On 12/30/2010 10:48 PM, Craig wrote:
It has non-standard wheels!
I went outside and pulled the left-front wheel and brought it inside so I
could read the
Craig wrote:
The rims are:Ronal
A 210 401 06 02
7-1/2Jx16 H2
You gots W210 wheels.
This ebay ad claims they fit E320/E300d.
http://compare.ebay.com/96-99-mercedes-e300d-320-wheel-2104010602-16x7-5-41mm/like/190418683923
What does the tire placard on the
OK, so they are off a 210 chassis car
On 12/31/2010 1:41 PM, Craig wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:19:39 -0600 Kaleb C. Striplin
ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Those wheels are off of a SLK or something like that
On 12/30/2010 10:48 PM, Craig wrote:
It has non-standard wheels!
I went outside and
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Craig wrote:
The rims are: Ronal
A 210 401 06 02
You gots W210 wheels.
An excellent upgrade for a W124 E420! The biggest complaint about the
car in the magazines when it first appeared as the 400E, IIRC,
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I know from the owner's manual that the E500 has 8J x 16 H 2 rims and is
fitted with 225/55 ZR 16 tires. I wonder if someone swapped to those rims.
500E/E500 rims don't fit an '86-'93 124 chassis car unless you roll
the
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:28:54 -0500 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Craig wrote:
The rims are:Ronal
A 210 401 06 02
7-1/2Jx16 H2
You gots W210 wheels.
I see.
This ebay ad claims they fit E320/E300d.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:34:44 -0800 Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Craig wrote:
The rims are: Ronal
A 210 401 06 02
You gots W210 wheels.
An excellent upgrade for a W124 E420! The
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:24:36 -0500 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Craig wrote:
Here's an H-rated tire with good snow ratings in the survey:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=YokohamatireModel=Geolandar+A%2FT-Spartnum=36HR6GEOATS
That first one I linked was half
Craig wrote:
same thing as the owner's manual, 195/65-15.
So, probably 825-830 revs per mile on the original tires.
205/55R16 would be a +1 for that size, 830-835 revs per mile,
or you could go 215/55-16, 820-825 revs per mile.
I'd probably choose 215/55, and somebody else obviously thought
In my limited experience Joke-ohama are terrible tires. I will never
have one on anything I own.
I did a search on YK520 and found that there is even a website dedicated
to them! http://yokohamayk520.com/
They are indeed touted as snow tires, but in 225/55-16 on a '94 E420,
they sure are
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:31:36 -0500 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Selection on 215/55 isn't as good as 205/55, and prices are higher on
the 215s for most brands. (I like to sort the whole list of tires by
price, and scan for tires rated 8.0 or higher in the owner surveys)
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:24:21 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
In my limited experience Joke-ohama are terrible tires. I will never
have one on anything I own.
They seem to run fine on dry roads, but now that winter is here, they
show themselves to be inadequate.
I'd rather not
They also have a tendency to throw the tread at highway speeds
causing the inner fender liners to be torn up, and damage to the
fender, trim, bumper and possibly your life, or SWMBO's, or your
kid's life.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:24:21 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
In my
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:24:21 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
In my limited experience Joke-ohama are terrible tires. I will never
have one on anything I own.
They seem to run fine on dry roads, but now that winter is here, they
show themselves to be inadequate.
I'd rather not
: [MBZ] I just discovered something about the '94 E420 ...
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:24:21 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
In my limited experience Joke-ohama are terrible tires. I
On 12/31/2010 4:22 PM, Craig wrote:
I did a search on YK520 and found that there is even a website dedicated
to them! http://yokohamayk520.com/
They are indeed touted as snow tires, but in 225/55-16 on a '94 E420,
they sure are lousy.
The M+S rating just means all season in a
A Mercedes on Blizzaks will go through snow until it gets so deep the
floor pans float the car. It is the best/safest car in all seasons,
including on ice. I know there are fans of the Norske tires, but
they also cost twice as much as Blizzaks. I have no experience with
them. My first set
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:39:17 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
When I was back in that town the next week, I put 2 more on the front
of the SDL. Then it would go almost anywhere a snowplow truck could
go. I think I paid about $200 for the set of 4. Four nor$kes will
cost you $500
Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com writes:
I also need to figure out what I want to weight the 190D with. Its not
performing like it should. I'm thinking 2x 5 gallon buckets full of
sand in the trunk wells will fix it. I used to carry my other set of
wheels/tires but that took all my trunk
And if you go to the Bridgerock/firerock dealer, you can probably get
a better price, installed.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:39:17 -0600 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
When I was back in that town the next week, I put 2 more on the front
of the SDL. Then it would go almost anywhere a
It has non-standard wheels!
Here I have been looking for tires of the 195/65-15 size, for
6.5 J x 15 H 2 rims.
Our E420 has 215/55-16 tires, which of course means it has 16 rims!
Now I wonder what width and offset they are. I also wonder if that means
pulling a wheel off and looking for
Everything post W124 had 16 rims from the factory -- W123 was the
last one with 15's, I think. Maybe 15 on the W126, I'm not sure,
but a 94 will have 16 rims standard for sure.
Peter
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:55:13 -0600 Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net
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Everything post W124 had 16 rims from the factory -- W123 was the
last one with 15's, I think. Maybe 15 on the W126, I'm not sure,
but a 94 will have 16 rims standard for sure.
Then maybe I have a '93 owner's
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