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Date:         Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:19:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
Subject:      Re: bus wheels
Comments: To: Tom Davis <I4VW@AOL.COM>
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On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:09:13AM -0400, Tom Davis wrote: > ------List, > What wheels, other than those manufactured by Volkswagen, fit an '71 & > later bus? Say Audi, BMW, Porsche, etc. >

Mercedes:

The following words (mostly) not mine, it's from an old message on the Type 2 list. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=++ Like apples are not all the same, Mercedes and their wheels are not all the same. You can't group them in the same class. Not all used 15" wheels even though the body was the same. Some classes changed body style and wheel size. All have different offset. Mercedes wheels ALWAYS has the MB star on the backside along with the MB part # 124 401 13 02, the exact wheel size i.e. 7Jx15 H2, and the offset i.e. ET 41. Knockoff and aftermarket wheels will not have this info on it. ET = rim offset ( dimension from rim center to wheel contact surface in mm). I do not know what bus wheel offset is.

>The best fit for buses are Mercedes. These years are a good fit, >with both bolt pattern and hub hole size being correct, but it said >nothing about offset, although someone else here has testified as to >offset being right, I believe:

For what you list, here is the model # and wheel size in 15". USA version cars!

>190,220,260,280,300, & C-Class '84-'98 15x7

190 (201 body): 201.024/028/029 6J x 15 H2 ET49 [15 hole] up to 1988 6 1/2J x 15 H2 ET44 [8 hole] up to 1988 7Jx15 H2 ET35 as of 1989 Sportline + 201.034/036 7Jx15 H2 ET44 [15 hole] 7Jx15 H2 ET41 [8 hole]

260 +300 (124 body): 88-93 124.026/028/030/032/090/230/290 6 1/2Jx15 H2 ET48 [15 hole] 6 1/2Jx15 H2 ET44 [8 hole] 94 124.032/052 sport suspension 7Jx15 H2 ET41

C class (202 body): 202.022/028 7Jx15 H2 ET37

>420,560SEL,580SEL '86-'91 15x7

6 1/2 Jx15 H2 ET21.5

>E-Class '93-'98 15x6.5

E class was 124 body, see above. E class is also 210 body starting in 1996, except these came with 16" wheels.

-- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com


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