Re: Wheel Options!

[the BlueBullet <qwe@wam.umd.edu>]

I called Motorsports Design for fitments on a TSW Hockenheim R and they 
said the same thing...MB's fitments are the same for Audi's. 
So that is true I take it.

On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Ben Howell wrote:

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>   No fitment for the Borbet thype "C"?! I don't think so! I know that 
> Borbet makes these for the 5x112 bolt pattern. Try this: next time you 
> call, ask for fitments on ANY 80's MB. This is how I found my MOMO 
> "Mirage" wheels. Discount Tire told me that they had nothing for the Audi's 
> in that wheel. So I happily hung up and called back, not 1 minute later 
> and asked for MBenz fitments and low and behold they had it. They were 
> 16x7.5 with a +35mm offset. Just to put the cherry on top, they had been 
> discontinued and they were scratch and dent. $99 a rim later, they were 
> mine. $300 wheels for $99 was great and I couldn't find one thing wrong 
> with them except for the paint had run on ONE of the wheels on the inside 
> of it. That's it.
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>   To put an end to my ramblings: I have seen Borbet type "C"'s on 
> MBenz's, so I know that the bolt pattern is available. Just make sure 
> that you ask about the offset. This is (obviously) VERY important.
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> Laters, Ben
> bhowell@rmii.com 
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