Date:         Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:43:14 -0600
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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From:         Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject:      Re: ASA Type 8 (Mercedes) wheels from tire rack for a vanagon
Comments: To: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
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My CLK (German-made wheels are 16x7" and ET 37, but haven't fitted
them to tires or the hubs yet.  13#, but need bolt hole drillin but
the center hub is plenty big.  Gave $70/wheel for them on
ebay.  They're not totally cherry, but I didn't need cherry.  I
needed 16" and 5x112;  the rest was icing on the cake.  They don't
look bad either.

I had a set of 16"x7"Chinese wheels for a CLK from Tire Rack for like
$88 ea. but my local tire guru said to send them back and find some
German stuff.  Sometimes I do as I'm told.

DM&FS

At 10:55 AM 3/11/2010, Bob Stevens wrote:
>No clue about that James.
>The shop that does most of the work on my van was amazed at how much lighter
>the CV900's (21 lbs) are compared to the M look-alikes.
>
>bob
>
>On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, James V <tornadored@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The 16" one's I got from Tire Rack were 27 lbs.
> >
> > Yikes!  Well the 16's they carry now are listed at 21.2 lbs.  Hmm...
> > Were the ones you had made in China like the current offering?
> >
> > James V
> > 86 Syncro Westy, etc
> >