Ugly Mercedes-Benz wheel

[VroomVroom]

Re: Ugly Mercedes-Benz wheel.

Very true.

They look OK on the A3 and even the A4, but they look ridiculously small on the A6.

Awful and what is going on with those wing mirrors, there alittle bit small aren't they?

We have these rims on our A6 1.8t they look great

 

[PHYBENZ]

Re: Ugly Mercedes-Benz wheel.

Awful and what is going on with those wing mirrors, there alittle bit small aren't they?

For a while MB and Audi used a smaller passenger side mirror, not sure why but they did that.

 

[Kowalski]

This man was an absolute disaster. The worst thing that ever happened to MB. He saw Benz as a cash-machine, and made a big scratch in Benze's image of quality and reliability...

Schrempp is now ru(i)ning a shoe shop apparently.

BOLLOCKS BENZ BOSS SECURES SHIT SERIES
Sniff Petrol - January 2006.Sniff Petrol issue 69

No sooner has he resigned from the top job at DaimlerChrysler than Jürgen Schrempp has stunned fans of incredibly useless chief executives by signing up for a radical reality show on German television. The new series, to be called Schauen Sie Diesem Idioten Zu (Watch This Idiot), sees the hapless Schrempp take over the running of a small shoe shop in Stuttgart and, with filming already underway, the show's producers are promising plenty of comedy management and lashings of red ink. In the first episode, due to be transmitted on TV station Deutsch Alle Scheißeat the start of next month, Schrempp takes over running the shop and immediately decides to merge with a greengrocer on the other side of town, having failed to realise that they are making no money because all their fruit is rotten!

More market share losing hilarity is promised in episode two when Schrempp decides to load all of his shoes with pointless amounts of technology. Imagine the look on his face when he discovers that all the laces keep snapping and the soles fall off, forcing half of his customers to take their business to Die Blau Propellor Shoehaus across the street! With Schrempp now into his third week of mis-managing the business, German internet chat sites are hot with rumours that the rather rubbish boss is about to blow his week's takings on something called 'Smart Shoes'.

Although there are currently no plans to screen Schauen Sie Diesem Idioten Zu in the UK, TV industry spies say Channel 4 has already bought the format rights and is well progressed with development of a show provisionally entitled John Towers Buys An Antique Shop And Then Spunks The Contents Of The Till On A V8 Carbon Fibre Sideboard.

Not that I wish disgrace to other people. But Jürgen Schremmp was a bloody disgrace to Mercedes-Benz, I wish him a slow and painful death.

 

[cawimmer430]

Hummmmm maybe not alllllll German carmakers

E.g:
Audi A4 (B7) 2.0TDI


Those rims aren't bad
or:
Audi A6 2.0TDI

Those rims on those Audi's aren't the usual on entry level Audi's. I'm talking about plastic hubcaps and ugly designed steel wheels. Both Audi and BMW offer them like MB. VW too.

God bless Porsche for not doing this.

 

[cawimmer430]

Even the CL has crappy entry-level wheels.



Who the hell allows this to happen!? Look how plain the car looks with these rims!

 

[Kowalski]

Even the CL has crappy entry-level wheels.



Who the hell allows this to happen!? Look how plain the car looks with these rims!

They look fine, actually. At least it's got an alloy wheel unlike the W220 or whose base version had exposed steel wheels.



Who the hell allowed this to happen!? It's not like fitting plastic hubcaps would be more costly than the whole Chrysler corporation, really.

 

[cawimmer430]

They look fine, actually. At least it's got an alloy wheel unlike the W220 or whose base version had exposed steel wheels.




Who the hell allowed this to happen!? It's not like fitting plastic hubcaps would be more costly than the whole Chrysler corporation, really.

Philippine license plate!

Agreed. MB should really keep the cheapo rims off the high end cars: S-Class, CL-Class and SL. Thankfully the ML and GL have relatively decent rims in base form.

 

[coolraoul]

They look fine, actually. At least it's got an alloy wheel unlike the W220 or whose base version had exposed steel wheels.




Who the hell allowed this to happen!? It's not like fitting plastic hubcaps would be more costly than the whole Chrysler corporation, really.

The W220 has no hubcap, do you know why? It is actually an alloy!!! Therefore, no hubcap!!

That is the crazy thing!! It IS an alloy! But it looks just as bad a a steel one, without hubcap!!!

 

[Kowalski]

The W220 has no hubcap, do you know why? It is actually an alloy!!! Therefore, no hubcap!!

That is the crazy thing!! It IS an alloy! But it looks just as bad a a steel one, without hubcap!!!

Alloys?! Damn! I always though they were steel wheels!

They sure look like exposed steel wheels, though. Crazy!

 

[hussein]

even tires make a difference

 

[coolraoul]

What do you mean Hussein?
Are you referring to low-profile tyres?

In fact, the bigger the rim is the lower the tyre is. So that at the end, the whole diameter of the wheel remains more or less the same. That is why you can put a bigger rim on your car, if you put a lower tyre to respect the original diameter.

205/55 R16 will become 205/45 R17, for example. The "55" means that the height of the tyre is equal as 55% of its width if I remember well.

It also allow you to put bigger rims without having to re-configurate the speedo and GPS and ABS/ESP sensors: if the whole diameter is bigger, the wheel turns slower when the vehicule is travelling, so all datas and indications would be wrong.

Of course, usually, 18" wheels have a bigger diameter than 16", but not that much when they are official options. You don't end up with a SUV-like wheel.

A bigger rim allow the carmaker to put bigger brakes behind it. And it looks better. But it is heavier...

 

[hussein]

What do you mean Hussein?
Are you referring to low-profile tyres?

In fact, the bigger the rim is the lower the tyre is. So that at the end, the whole diameter of the wheel remains more or less the same. That is why you can put a bigger rim on your car, if you put a lower tyre to respect the original diameter.

205/55 R16 will become 205/45 R17, for example. The "55" means that the height of the tyre is equal as 55% of its width if I remember well.

It also allow you to put bigger rims without having to re-configurate the speedo and GPS and ABS/ESP sensors: if the whole diameter is bigger, the wheel turns slower when the vehicule is travelling, so all datas and indications would be wrong.

Of course, usually, 18" wheels have a bigger diameter than 16", but not that much when they are official options. You don't end up with a SUV-like wheel.

A bigger rim allow the carmaker to put bigger brakes behind it. And it looks better. But it is heavier...

no no no you got me wrong like what i mean is like the thickniss of the tire it changes everything and makes it look ugly like my mom has a cayenne and here tires were like totaled so she got tires and there thick so now the car looks kinda ugly from them

 

[Kowalski]

Re: Ugly Mercedes-Benz wheel.

i like those wheels...i wanted wheels like that for the winter
...i like the look...not on an s-class because its big but they look cool on an e or a old c...BMW's are better though

BMW have some pretty nasty looking wheels too.

 

[hussein]

Re: Ugly Mercedes-Benz wheel.

BMW have some pretty nasty looking wheels too.

o yeah even the 5 series stock man thats ugly

 

[Monster]

no no no you got me wrong like what i mean is like the thickniss of the tire it changes everything and makes it look ugly like my mom has a cayenne and here tires were like totaled so she got tires and there thick so now the car looks kinda ugly from them

Are you talking about the actual width of the tyre and not the thickness of the sidewall?